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PONYBOI
by admin|3 years ago|Hammer to Nail
(The 2024 Sundance Film Festival ran January 18-28. Check out  Bears Rebecca Fonté’s movie review of Ponyboi. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) [Note: I will be using he/him pronouns in this review as that is how the...
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A Conversation with Felipe Gálvez (THE SETTLERS)
by admin|3 years ago|Hammer to Nail
Felipe Gálvez has been working in the film industry for over 15 years. While this is his debut feature as a writer and director this is, not the first time he has worked on a feature film. For years he served...
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Origin | Review
by admin|3 years ago|Ioncinema
Caste of the Unjust: DuVernay’s Scholarly Drama Traces the Universal Social Ills of Hierarchy For her fifth narrative feature, Origin, Ava DuVernay takes an inventive approach to adapting Pulitzer Prize Winner Isabel Wilkerson’s 2020 nonfiction publication Caste: The Origins of...
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S. Craig Zahler’s 10 Favorite Films of 2023
by admin|3 years ago|The Film Stage
We recently learned that five years after Dragged Across Concrete, S. Craig Zahler will soon announce his next feature. In the meantime, the director has unveiled his favorite music, books, and––most pertinent to this site––films he watched in the past...
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Death and Other Details Wastes Potential on Neverending Cruise
by admin|3 years ago|Roger Ebert
One of the biggest problems of the “my TV show is really just a long movie” era of television is that it has created a common problem wherein a script’s worth of plotting is stretched out to the length of...
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We’re So Short on Time: John Sayles on Lone Star
by admin|3 years ago|Roger Ebert
John Sayles’ films are indicated by the quality of his listening. His scripts are dialogue-dense and populated by people of character and intelligence, representing every social strata, every race, every creed. He puts them in conversation with one another, and...
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Sound And Vision: Jane Schoenbrun
by admin|3 years ago|Screen Anarchy
In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we look at Lucy Dacus' Night Shift, directed by Jane Schoenbrun. It is no secret I identify as queer. This part...
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Driving Madeleine Review: One Last Pleasant Drive Through the City of Light
by admin|3 years ago|The Film Stage
And so the “life-changing cab ride” sub-genre expands with Driving Madeleine, directed by Christian Carion and starring Line Renaud and Dany Boon. One likes to imagine this new film exists in the same universe as all of the rest. Somewhere...
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CLEARMIND Review: Taking an Axe to Therapy
by admin|3 years ago|Screen Anarchy
Nora (Rebecca Creskoff) is going through a rough patch. Still reeling from the loss of her young daughter and the breakup of her marriage, she’s trying out a new form of therapy to cope. Said therapy involves the annual tradition...
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2024 Cinema Eye Honors Awards: Sam Green’s 32 Sounds Lands Best Picture – Oscar Nom Next?
by admin|3 years ago|Ioncinema
Sam Green‘s 32 Sounds took the top honor of Best Feature at the 2024 Cinema Eye Honors Awards. Will this acknowledgement help raise the film’s profile for next week’s Oscar voting? The doc which premiered at the 2022 edition of...
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