Ira Sachs returns with Peter Hujar’s Day, a mesmerizing 76-minute chamber piece that transforms a rediscovered 1974 transcript into an intimate portrait of friendship, artistry, and 1970s New York bohemia. The film reunites Sachs with Ben Whishaw, star of his […]

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Following their collaboration on the explosive romantic drama Passages, director Ira Sachs and star Ben Whishaw reunite for an intimate, verité-like portrait of a famed 20th-century photographer. Peter Hujar’s Day stars Whishaw and Rebecca Hall as NYC-based photographer Peter Hujar […]

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The festival on the Croisette has concluded. After two weeks of breathtaking international cinema, the 75th Cannes Film Festival came to a close with the announcement of the winners, all culminating in the prestigious Palme d’Or. The lineup featured exciting […]

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One of the most shocking, mind-blowing films from this year’s Sundance Film Festival is writer-director Andrew Semans’ psychological thriller, Resurrection. Led by Rebecca Hall (who proved her horror chops in last year’s The Night House) and Tim Roth, the movie was […]

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(The 2022 Sundance Film Festival runs January 20-30 all virtually. Check out Melanie Addington’s movie review of Resurrection. Like what you see here on Hammer to Nail? Why not pay just $1.00 per month via Patreon to help keep us going?) We tend to forget […]

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As 2021 dawned, we found ourselves as a nation more consumed by the political drama unfolding around us than any narrative created by filmmakers. Truth was, for a while, far stranger than fiction. Eventually, however, we returned to something resembling […]

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(HtN contributor Ray Lobo is a big fan of the films of Robert Greene. So much so, he’s trotting out this 3-part series on Greene’s films Actress, Kate Plays Christine and Bisbee ’17. Like what you see here on Hammer to Nail? Why not […]

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Founded in 1980 by Robert Redford to promote the art and craft of filmmaking, the U.S. Film Festival, rebranded as the Sundance Film Festival in 1985, has long been a beacon for American independent cinema. Ever since then, the annual […]

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