Imagine this peculiar back-and-forth as mere embellishment. There is a far superior interview—in Interview, no less—with the great Charles Burnett and Barry Jenkins “You’re Either a Storyteller or a Liar” Go read that. Then, if interest persists, you can return […]

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(Last week, a trio of HtN contributors provided a list of films they were excited to see at DOC NYC, 2021. HtN contributor and self-proclaimed “doc geek” Lauren Wissot has a great list as well, check it out! Like what […]

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DOC NYC 2021 kicks off today, November 10, in and around the IFC Center in the village. The festival is run by Artistic Director Thom Powers who also programs the documentary slate at TIFF. Powers curates his own ‘shortlist’ as […]

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(We here at Hammer to Nail are all about true independent cinema. But we also have to tip our hat to the great films of yesteryear that continue to inspire filmmakers and cinephiles alike. This week, our “The Curbside Criterion” […]

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(Roberto Rossellini’s War Trilogy is available from Amazon.) The challenge is to see things with a fresh eye. When a film has been called a “classic” for too long, it comes to us cloaked in a fog of received opinion, […]

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(The Films of Shirley Clarke screens at Anthology Film Archives from April 22nd-28th, 2009. If you’re not able to attend, you can purchase the DVD set Treasures IV: American Avant-Garde Film, 1947-1986 at Amazon, which includes Clarke’s 1958 film Bridges-Go-Round.) […]

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(Must Read After My Death opens in New York City at the Quad Cinema on Friday, February 20th, and in Los Angeles at Laemmle’s Sunset 5 on Friday, February 27th. For those everywhere else, and more interestingly, it opens online […]

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It’s hard to think of a more universally influential film than Roberto Rossellini’s Open City (1945). Just as legendary as its story of Rome’s anti-Nazi resistance is the real life circumstances of its production. With the studios bombed, Rossellini takes […]

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