Hammer to Nail

I am writing to you from the 15th Oak Cliff Film Festival and this time, it’s personal. I’ll get back to that (you know what you did…) momentarily but, I really cannot believe it’s the 15th festival seeing as I...

The life and career of lesbian avant-garde filmmaker Barbara Hammer is the subject of a kaleidoscopic exploration in director Byrdie O’Connor’s documentary, Barbara Forever. It premiered at this year’s Sundance, where it won the Joshua Oppenheim Editing Award in the...

Below is a spoilery add-on to Jack Scehnker’s earlier conversation with Nicolas Winding Refn and features one of the stars of Her Private Hell, Charles Melton. Be sure to check out the full Winding Refn interview here.   ****SPOILER WARNING!!****   Hammer...

Nicolas Winding Refn has been one of my favorite filmmakers since I first saw Drive as a kid. In the years since, I have watched every Refn picture across every format he has worked in, from the grainy Copenhagen of...

(Check out Chris Reed’s Wild Inside movie review, will have its world premiere in Central Park on July 29 in partnership with Rooftop Films. It then opens at IFC Center July 31, followed by a nationwide theatrical rollout. Seen it? Join...

The Venice Film Festival is coming to the Lido for its 83rd edition, taking place September 2 – 12. Earlier this morning, they unveiled the lineup for its in- and out-of-competition titles. Hammer To Nail will be on the ground...

Casper Kelly, the director of the popular horror short Too Many Cooks and other numerous segments for Adult Swim, brought his twisted feature debut to this year’s Sundance, which blends our childhood TV memories with terror. Buddy follows the titular...

After 12 years, Chris Rock returns to the director’s seat for a drama set in the modern cutthroat world of Hollywood. Rock writes and directs Misty Green, which stars Rosalind Eleazar (Slow Horses; Rose of Nevada) as an actress seeking...

(Check out Lauren Wissot’s The Welcome Table movie review, it’s streaming now on HBO. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) The latest creative endeavor in award-winning filmmaker Josh Fox’s (Gasland, How to Let Go of the World, The...

One of the best films to come out of last year’s Tribeca Festival was writer-director Paula González-Nasser’s slice-of-life dramedy, The Scout. Based on her own experiences working as a location scout, it stars breakout Mimi Davila as a young scout...