Safdie Brothers Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/safdie-brothers/ What to Watch Mon, 29 Dec 2025 16:32:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.hammertonail.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-logo02-1-32x32.png Safdie Brothers Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/safdie-brothers/ 32 32 A Conversation with Darius Khondji (MARTY SUPREME) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/darius-khondji/ Mon, 29 Dec 2025 16:32:16 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=54762

Iranian-French cinematographer Darius Khondji turned 70 in October of this year and shows no sign of slowing down in any way. His credits include such masterpieces as Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s 1991 Delicatessen and 1995 The City of Lost Children, David Fincher’s […]

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]]> MARTY SUPREME https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/marty-supreme/ Wed, 24 Dec 2025 18:05:21 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=54747

(Check out Chris Reed’s Marty Supreme movie review! It’s in theaters now via A24. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Brothers Benny and Josh Safdie together made a string of highly regarded features, culminating with the 2019 […]

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]]> A Conversation with Owen Kline (FUNNY PAGES) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/owen-kline/ Wed, 16 Jul 2025 19:05:46 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=53549

Three years ago, at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival Directors’ Fortnight, I had the opportunity to speak with filmmaker Owen Kline to discuss his remarkable feature directorial debut, Funny Pages. At the time, Kline was most notable for his memorable […]

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]]> THE SWEET EAST Trailer: Talia Ryder Stars in Sean Price Williams’ Demented Road Trip https://www.hammertonail.com/trailer/sweet-east/ Thu, 02 Nov 2023 21:43:54 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=40728

He may be known for his distinct cinematography in the films of Alex Ross Perry, the Safdie Brothers, Nathan Silver, and more. But now, Sean Price Williams is taking the director’s seat in his unhinged road trip film, The Sweet […]

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]]> THE SWEET EAST https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/the-sweet-east/ Fri, 27 Oct 2023 19:23:53 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=40618

(The 61st New York Film Festival runs September 29-October 15. Check out M.J. O’Toole’s The Sweet East movie review. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Sean Price Williams – known for his collaborations with Alex Ross Perry and the […]

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]]> FUNNY PAGES Trailer: The Portrait of the Cartoonist as a Young Man https://www.hammertonail.com/trailer/funny-pages/ Wed, 20 Jul 2022 13:43:56 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=37495

Do you remember the kid who played the younger brother in Noah Baumbach’s The Squid and the Whale? That was Owen Kline, and 17 years later he is back with his directorial debut. Funny Pages premiered at this year’s Cannes […]

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]]> Hammer To Nail’s 20 Most Anticipated Films of TIFF 2019 https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/htn-tiff-2019-preview/ Wed, 04 Sep 2019 17:59:45 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=31328 Once again, Hammer to Nail has representation on the ground at TIFF (the Toronto International Film Festival). As we did last year, we here offer up our recommended (of films we’ve already seen) and most anticipated (of films we haven’t) […]

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]]> GIVE ME LIBERTY https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/give-me-liberty-review/ Sat, 26 Jan 2019 18:12:02 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=30660

There’s so much to love about Give Me Liberty that it’s easy to overlook its pacing issues and instead appreciate that it exists at all.

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]]> 2017 IFP Screen Forward Conference Filmmaker Magazine Talks https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/2017-ifp-filmmaker-magazine-talks/ Wed, 04 Oct 2017 20:18:22 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=28558 To kick off the 2017 IFP Screen Forward Conference, and in tandem with their 25th anniversary, Filmmaker Magazine programmed a dense day of panels and conversations with filmmakers. The first panel, featuring veteran and new filmmakers from their 25 New Faces […]

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]]> THE 2015 HAMMER TO NAIL AWARDS https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/the-2015-hammer-to-nail-awards/ Tue, 05 Jan 2016 19:43:32 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=25400 Introduction Greetings HtN readers, this is Don Lewis, Editor of the site and I wanted to welcome you to the 2015 Hammer to Nail Awards. Next month marks my official one-year anniversary of Editor of the site and it’s been […]

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