Hammer to Nail

HtN’s 15 Most Anticipated at DOC NYC ’24
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DOC NYC, the world’s largest documentary film festival, is making its return to NYC from November 13 through December 1 (in-person and online) for its 15th edition. It will screen more than 200 films, 110 of which are feature-length. Many...
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THE RETURN Trailer: Ralph Fiennes Fights For Juliette Binoche in Retelling of ‘The Odyssey’
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Nearly thirty years after starring together in The English Patient, Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche are back together in a bold retelling of Homer’s “Odyssey.” Fiennes, already drawing awards buzz for his performance in Conclave, portrays the legendary hero Odysseus...
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OH, CANADA Trailer: Richard Gere Confesses His Life in Paul Schrader’s Mournful Drama
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Nearly 45 years after working together on American Gigolo, director Paul Schrader and star Richard Gere are back for a more poignant drama about looking back at life while reaching the end of it. Oh, Canada stars Gere as Leonard...
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A Conversation with Jonathan Hsu & Law Chen (STARRING JERRY AS HIMSELF)
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Starring Jerry As Himself emerged from the “worst day” of producer Jonathan Hsu’s life, as he told director and longtime collaborator Lawrence Chen on the phone three years ago.  “I found out my dad’s been working as a spy for...
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BIRD
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(Check our Chris Reed’s Bird movie review. It hits theaters in NYC Friday, November 8 before expanding after that. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) British director Andrea Arnold (Cow) has long explored the ins and outs...
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A Conversation with Tim Mielants (SMALL THINGS LIKE THESE)
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The new movie Small Things Like These, from Belgian director Tim Mielants (Will), is an adaptation of Irish author Clair Keegan’s 2021 novella of the same title. Both film and source text tackle the horror of Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries, a...
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THE END Trailer: Tilda Swinton Stars In Joshua Oppenheimer’s Post-Apocalyptic Musical
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Oscar-nominated director Joshua Oppenheimer follows up his two documentaries The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence with his first narrative feature. His post-apocalyptic musical, The End, centers on a family living in an extravagant bunker years after the...
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A Conversation with Anirban Dutta & Anupama Srinivasan (NOCTURNES)
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The atmosphere’s concentration of Carbon Dioxide is at an all-time high; extreme weather events have become more and more frequent; sea levels are rising faster than every before. It may feel like the world is ending, and maybe it is....
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A Conversation with Hannah Peterson (THE GRADUATES)
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A year after captivating critics and audiences at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival (where it won Best Cinematography), writer-director Hannah Peterson’s poignant, yet warm feature debut The Graduates will finally open in theaters on November 1 beginning at NYC’s Metrograph....
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A Conversation with James Duval (THE TEEN APOCALYPSE TRILOGY)
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James Duval, is an American actor who rose to prominence in the 1990s as a key figure in the New Queer Cinema movement. Duval is perhaps best known for his collaborations with independent filmmaker Gregg Araki, particularly in Araki’s “Teenage...
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