Hammer to Nail

“This is what documentary filmmaking can be at its best: an opportunity to have rich life experiences, to wander and reflect, to visit new places, to embrace spontaneous encounters. For me, the pleasure of documentary filmmaking is that it is...

Back at the New York Film Festival I was taken by the description of Bas Devos’ film Here as I was looking through the program lineup. It read something like:   “HERE – 2023 – Belgium Dutch, French, Romanian, and...

Fresh off its Sundance world premiere, David and Nathan Zellner’s Sasquatch Sunset will likely put some pep in the spring season’s step! Their third feature, following Kumiko the Treasure Hunter and Damsel, explores the mythical creatures of the wilderness in...

“What is stronger, your fear or your love for me?” One of the most exciting, versatile filmmakers of today is without a doubt, Bertrand Bonello. The French writer-director (Saint Laurent, Nocturama) returns with his futuristic tenth feature that is sure...

NYC’s Museum of the Moving Image has announced the full lineup for its 2024 First Look Festival. The festival offers a diverse slate of major New York premieres, work-in-progress screenings & sessions, gallery installations, and fresh perspectives on the art and process of filmmaking.  Its...

“I’m gonna get you kids!” The classic story of adventurous children getting up to no good gets a 16mm revamp in writer-director Weston Razooli’s Riddle of Fire. Razooli’s directorial debut premiered at last year’s Cannes Film Festival and closed TIFF’s...

One of the best indie gems to look out for this year is Argentinian writer-director Tomás Gómez Bustillo’s Chronicles of a Wandering Saint. This supernatural comedy premiered at SXSW 2023 where it won the Adam Yauch Hörnblowér Award, and has...

Josh O’Connor is on a surreal quest in Alice Rohrwacher’s La Chimera. The otherworldly drama had its world premiere at last year’s Cannes, as well as screened at TIFF and NYFF. In her fourth feature after 2018’s Happy As Lazzaro,...

(The 2024 Sundance Film Festival ran January 18-28. Check out Chris Reed’s movie review of Frida. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Mexican painter Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) experienced great physical suffering during her time on Earth, the result...

(The 2024 Sundance Film Festival ran January 18-28. Check out Melanie Addington’s movie review of Every Little Thing. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) A quiet film that at first glance appears only to be about hummingbirds but...