Few actor-director partnerships in contemporary cinema have proven as fruitful, or as essential as the collaboration between Toni Servillo and Paolo Sorrentino. Since their first meeting on the set of One Man Up  in 2001, the Naples-born actor and filmmaker have […]

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The New York Film Festival, presented by Film at Lincoln Center, has announced the lineup for its Spotlight section taking place at its 63rd edition. This section will showcase a selection of 12 significant and anticipated features, including three world […]

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The Venice Film Festival is heading back to the Lido for its 82nd edition. Taking place August 27 – September 6, the in-competition lineup features exciting new titles from an array of auteurs, including Park Chan-wook, Jim Jarmusch, Noah Baumbach, […]

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Oscar-winning director Paolo Sorrentino (The Great Beauty) is back and doing what he does best: making people and places look enchantingly beautiful. Parthenope, titled after the myth of Greek sirens who lured men to their deaths at sea, stars Celeste […]

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The 77th Cannes Film Festival concluded today as the Greta Gerwig-fronted jury awarded the Palme d’Or to Sean Baker’s new sex worker comedy, Anora. It is also distributor NEON’s fifth consecutive Palme win following Anatomy of a Fall, Triangle of […]

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The Cannes Film Festival has unveiled the first slate of films for its 77th edition across many sections, from the Competition to Un Certain Regard. It will be held from May 14 through 25. Ahead of the announcement, a few […]

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(Check out Ray Lobo’s review of Marx Can Wait, available now on Mubi. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page). Marco Bellocchio’s films have alternated between the personal–Fists in the Pocket— and the political—Vincere. His latest film […]

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Italian director Paolo Sorrentino has already won one Oscar, for his 2013 The Great Beauty, and now he is nominated for another one, for last year’s The Hand of God (which I reviewed out of the Middleburg Film Festival). This […]

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(The Middleburg Film Festival ran October 14-17 in Middleburg, VA. Lead Critic Chris Reed was on hand, providing his usual excellent coverage. Like what you see here on Hammer to Nail? Why not give just $1.00 per month via Patreon to help keep us going?) Italian […]

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Filled with drugs, nudity (mostly of the female variety) and sex galore, Loro is made with such panache and visual wit that it (almost) comes across as hypocrisy when it tries to remind us that no, such things can lead to a bad end.

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