Hammer to Nail

Can one lone entry stand-in for all others in a festival faux-preview (aka “curtain-raiser”)? If the documentary-in-question is Film is Dead. Long Live Film!—tracing the pathway of otherwise-lost or forgotten works saved from obscurity or obsolescence thanks to the dedication...

The 77th Cannes Film Festival just wrapped, premiering many new buzzworthy titles that industry folks and cinephiles are still talking about. Even though Hammer To Nail did not attend the festival this year, we kept track of what our fellow...

Joanna Arnow is a writer, director, cinematographer, editor and actress hailing from New York City. Prior to her feature debut The Feeling That The Time For Doing Something Has Passed, Joanna had already solidified herself as a filmmaker with a...

(Photo credit Valery Hache via Getty Images) The big, stunning news over the weekend was that truly independent filmmaker Sean Baker won the freeking Palme d’Or at Cannes! Amazing. It’s always a great feeling when a good person, solid, indie...

The 77th Cannes Film Festival concluded today as the Greta Gerwig-fronted jury awarded the Palme d’Or to Sean Baker’s new sex worker comedy, Anora. It is also distributor NEON’s fifth consecutive Palme win following Anatomy of a Fall, Triangle of...

Bertrand Bonello is a multi-hyphenate talent in the film industry. The acclaimed filmmaker is also a producer, composer and actor. His films have been associated with the movement known as New French Extremity. Bonello actually got his start in music...

Baltimore-based filmmaker John Waters—aka “The Pope of Trash”—began his career in the 1960s as a provocateur, directing a series of proudly outrageous features on microscopic budgets, with drag queen Divine as his frequent star. His many early works include Pink...

Modern-day scream queen Maika Monroe (It Follows, Watcher) is an FBI agent facing her dark past in the form of Nic Cage in probably the most anticipated horror flick of the summer. The duo stars in Longlegs from writer-director Oz...

The Oak Cliff Film Festival is back June 20-23 in the Dallas neighborhood of Oak Cliff and not only do they have a lineup sure to make a cinefile smile, HtN Editor Don Lewis (that’s me!) will be there covering the...

(Check our Chris Reed’s movie review of Backspot, in theaters now. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) In Backspot, the feature debut of Canadian director D.W. Waterson, the competition may be fierce, but at the end...