Hammer to Nail

(Check out Jonathan Marlow’s NAZA movie review, it’s in theaters now. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) A documentary can frustrate. A documentary can potentially motivate as well. NAZA, a late-addition to the Venice International Film...

((Check out Anders Ljung’s 76 Days Adrift movie review, it’s available on VOD via Apple TV now. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) There is an inherent intimacy to a survival story told by the person who...

Pulp fans are a patient people. We’ve waited years between scant albums and tours. Their most recent album More, is only their 8th LP since they formed as teenagers in Sheffield, England in 1978. It was their first new album...

Having spent over a decade and a half mining cinematic nonfiction gems on the festival beat, only a handful of doc fests remain on my bucket list (Thessaloniki, I’m available). Which is why it was a bit of a thrill...

(The Toronto International Film Festival (or TIFF) ran September 10-20 and HtN had boots on the ground covering all the best indie films they have to offer. Check out Chris Reeds’s Josephine movie review from the fest! Seen it? Join the conversation with...

One film that came out of nowhere and set the film community on fire is Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s documentary, You Can See Everything. Announced as a surprise world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival, the film follows Fielder...

After diving into his childhood in his 2022 coming-of-age drama Armageddon Time, writer-director James Gray isn’t done going back in time to his NYC roots. Having premiered at this year’s Cannes and set as the Opening Night film for this year’s...

Winner of the Critics’ Week Grand Prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, cinematographer Marine Atlan’s directorial debut La Gradiva is a sun-kissed coming-of-age drama that transports viewers to the streets and ruins of Naples. It follows a group of...

(The Toronto International Film Festival (or TIFF) ran September 10-20 and HtN had boots on the ground covering all the best indie films they have to offer. Check out Clara Cuccaro’s Anchors Aweigh  movie review from the fest! Seen it? Join the...

The Scout opens this Friday at Film Forum in NYC. Below is Matt Delman’s interview with Director Paula Gonzalez-Nasser and star Mimi Davila, edited for length and clarity. You can also read his full review here. Hammer to Nail: I...