Hammer to Nail

With the 2026 Dances with Films Festival taking place this weekend in New York City, one film to be on the lookout for is a refreshing black & white dramedy in the vein of Before Sunrise, Lost In Translation, and...

Nathan Silver’s Carol & Joy is a 38-minute documentary portrait of Academy Award-nominated actress Carol Kane and her 98-year-old mother Joy, a music teacher who still gives lessons and plays piano in their Upper West Side apartment. Shot on 16mm by cinematographers...

Lav Diaz is one of cinema’s most uncompromising voices, crafting epic meditations on Filipino history, trauma, and identity that routinely stretch past the four, six, or even eight-hour mark. His films, including Melancholia (2008), Norte, the End of History (2013),...

Following its week-long theatrical engagement last fall, Oliver Laxe’s jaw-dropping thriller Sirât is coming back stateside for a wider official release. Having won the Jury Prize at Cannes and shocking audiences and critics alike on the fall festival circuit, the...

(Check out Chris Reed’s Young Mothers movie review! It’s in New York and Los Angeles theaters starting Friday, January 8 before a national rollout. ! Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) The Belgian filmmaking duo of brothers...

After working together on Transit, Undine, and Afire, writer-director Christian Petzold and actress Paula Beer are back again with a new psychological drama in a stunning setting. Miroirs No. 3, named after the classical piano piece, follows Berlin music student...

Some filmmakers are known for their documentary works. Others for their narrative films. Still others—the better filmmakers (for me), generally—do not fit comfortably into either category. Or any category whatsoever. Poet / artist / filmmaker Lynne Sachs is one of...

On Chile’s Robinson Crusoe Island, a remote Pacific speck 700 kilometers from the mainland with 61 times more endemic species per square kilometer than the Galápagos, filmmaker Cece King discovered something unexpected: a community that treats the island not as...

Jim Jarmusch has spent over four decades crafting films about drifters, outsiders, and quiet souls navigating a world that rarely accommodates their rhythms. With Father Mother Sister Brother, the legendary independent filmmaker delivers what he calls “a kind of anti-action...

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...