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The home for ambitious film. The only site online dedicated to TRUE INDIE FILM!
Everyone's raving about PROJECT HAIL MARY so why not roll it back to Ryan Gosling's breakout performance in HALF NELSON? Jack Schenker spoke to that films writers/directors Anna Fleck and Ryan Boden about the film which just turned 20!
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A Conversation with Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck (HALF NELSON) - Hammer to Nail
Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck are an American filmmaking duo whose partnership spans over two decades. Boden, originally from Newton, Massachusetts, developed a love of movies, English literature, and pho...
https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/boden-fleck/
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The late, great cultural icon Rod Serling gets a thorough doc treatment in director Jonah Tulis’ SERLING. Chris Reed enters another dimension in his review, fresh from
#SXSW
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SERLING - Hammer to Nail
(The 2026 SXSW Film Festival ran March 12-18 in beautiful Austin, TX. Check out Chris Reed’s Black Zombie movie review, fresh from the fest. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd P...
https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/serling/
about 12 hours ago
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Maya Annik Bedward's feature debut BLACK ZOMBIE digs deep into the lore of zombies. Chris Reed checked it out at
#SXSW
and says...
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BLACK ZOMBIE - Hammer to Nail
(The 2026 SXSW Film Festival ran March 12-18 in beautiful Austin, TX. Check out Chris Reed’s Black Zombie movie review, fresh from the fest. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd P...
https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/black-zombie/
1 day ago
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Written by Aidan West and directed by Gloria Mercer—both making their feature debut – A SAFE DISTANCE premiered at
#SXSW
. Chris Reed takes the journey in this review...
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A SAFE DISTANCE - Hammer to Nail
(The 2026 SXSW Film Festival runs March 12-18 in beautiful Austin, TX. Check out Chris Reed’s A Safe Distance movie review, fresh from the fest. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterbo...
https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/a-safe-distance/
2 days ago
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On the final day of the
#SXSW
film fest, Chris Reed praises writer/director Emily Robinson's ambitiousness in UGLY CRY, a "compelling meditation on how the harsh gaze—male, female, and even one’s own."
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UGLY CRY - Hammer to Nail
(The 2026 SXSW Film Festival runs March 12-18 in beautiful Austin, TX. Check out Chris Reed’s Ugly Cry movie review, fresh from the fest. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page...
https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/ugly-cry/
3 days ago
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Our SXSW reviews just won't stop, much like the U.S. government. Patrick Bresnan's doc FIRST THEY CAME FOR MY COLLEGE tells the sad tale of what happened to the New College of Florida, a victim of fighting "wokeness." Chris Reed has this review...
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FIRST THEY CAME FOR MY COLLEGE - Hammer to Nail
(The 2026 SXSW Film Festival runs March 12-18 in beautiful Austin, TX. Check out Chris Reed’s First They Came for My College movie review, fresh from the fest. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN ...
https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/first-they-came-for-my-college/
4 days ago
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After breaking hearts and causing laughs at Sundance, Jay Duplass's SEE YOU WHEN I SEE YOU hit
#SXSW
this week. Jack Schenker spoke with Duplas as well as Adam Cayton-Holland, Cooper Raiff, David Duchovny, Kumail Nanjiani & Emily V. Gordon about the film...
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A Conversation with Jay Duplass, Adam Cayton-Holland, Cooper Raiff, David Duchovny, Kumail Nanjiani & Emily V. Gordon - Hammer to Nail
See You When I See You was directed by Jay Duplass (The Puffy Chair, Cyrus, Jeff, Who Lives at Home, The Baltimorons) and written by comedian Adam Cayton-Holland. It adapts Cayton-Holland’s 2018 memoi...
https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/see-you-when-i-see-you/
4 days ago
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At
#SXSW
, Chris Reed discovers everything he ever wanted to know about Sea Monkeys and then some via Mark Becker & Aaron Schock's doc AMAZING LIVE SEA MONKEYS. You'll love his review or your money back!
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AMAZING LIVE SEA MONKEYS - Hammer to Nail
(The 2026 SXSW Film Festival runs March 12-18 in beautiful Austin, TX. Check out Chris Reed’s Amazing Live Sea Monkeys movie review, fresh from the fest. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our...
https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/amazing-live-sea-monkeys/
5 days ago
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SPARKS, the debut feature from Fergus Campbell that stars Elsie Fisher just had its premiere at
#SXSW
. Chris Reed celebrates "the careful construction of this visual gem of an indie film."
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SPARKS - Hammer to Nail
(The 2026 SXSW Film Festival runs March 12-18 in beautiful Austin, TX. Check out Chris Reed’s Sparks movie review, fresh from the fest. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.)...
https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/sparks/
6 days ago
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Chris Reed says GRIND is "a well-constructed anthology film that ably mixes horror and comedy" with vignettes from Brea Grant, Ed Dougherty & Chelsea Stardust plus starring Barbara Crampton & Rob Huebel! From
#SXSW
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GRIND - Hammer to Nail
(The 2026 SXSW Film Festival runs March 12-18 in beautiful Austin, TX. Check out Chris Reed’s Grind movie review, fresh from the fest. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) ...
https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/grind/
6 days ago
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Jonathan Marlow has an in-depth talk with friend and BEYOND THE DUPLEX PLANET director Beth Harrington. The doc just premiered at
#SXSW
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A CONVERSATION WITH BETH HARRINGTON (BEYOND THE DUPLEX PLANET) - Hammer to Nail
It is said that you cannot go home again. Literally, you can go home but which version of you goes? Not the one that disappeared. That version is long-gone. [These words are written from the dining ro...
https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/beth-harrington/
8 days ago
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The 2026
#SXSW
Film Fest kicked off last night and HtN has tons of reviews coming your way like this one! Chris Reed moves in with Beth Harrington's touching doc, BEYOND THE DUPLEX PLANET which details an iconic zine from the early 80s
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BEYOND THE DUPLEX PLANET - Hammer to Nail
(The 2026 SXSW Film Festival runs March 12-18 in beautiful Austin, TX. Check out Chris Reed’s Beyond the Duplex Planet  movie review, fresh from the fest. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on ou...
https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/beyond-the-duplex-planet/
8 days ago
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The 2026
#SXSW
film festival starts TOMORROW and HtNers Chris Reed and Matt Delman have their picks for what you might keep an eye out for...
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HtN’s 15 Most Anticipated Films of SXSW 2026
Hammer to Nail is traveling to Austin as lead critic Chris Reed is once again headed to the Texas state capital. SXSW 2026 runs March 12-18. With 120 features, 90 of which are world premieres, plus as...
https://www.hammertonail.com/film-festivals/sxsw-2026/
10 days ago
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Jack Schenker spoke with
#Oscar
nominated director Sara Dosa as well as Icelandic poet and author Andri Snær Magnason who, along with climate change, are the subjects of her
#Sundance
doc TIME AND WATER
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A Conversation with Sara Dosa & Andri Snær Magnason: (TIME AND WATER)
Sara Dosa is an Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker whose work centers on human relationships with the natural world. Her films, including Fire of Love (2022), The Seer & The Unseen (2019), and The ...
https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/time-and-water/
15 days ago
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Sony Pictures Classics has picked up distro rights to Noah Segan's
#Sundance
drama THE ONLY LIVING PICKPOCKET IN NEW YORK. Jack Schenker spoke with Segan, Rian Johnson, John Turturro, Giancarlo Esposito & Tatiana Maslany about the film...
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A Conversation with Noah Segan, Rian Johnson, John Turturro, Giancarlo Esposito, Tatiana Maslany (THE ONLY LIVING PICKPOCKET IN NEW YORK)
Noah Segan is a fourth-generation New Yorker who has been a part of the independent and genre film community for nearly two decades. Early in his career, filmmaker Rian Johnson cast Segan in the Sunda...
https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/only-living-pickpocket-in-new-york/
17 days ago
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Oliver Laxe's Spanish drama SIRÄ€T is nominated for Best International Feature Film and Best Sound at this years
#Oscars
. Jack Schenker spoke with Laxe about crafting the film...
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A Conversation with Oliver Laxe (SIRÄ€T)
Oliver Laxe was born in Paris in 1982, the son of Galician emigrants. When he was six, his family returned to Northwest Spain. After completing his studies in audiovisual communication, he moved to Ta...
https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/oliver-laxe/
22 days ago
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Satyajit Ray's somewhat underseen DAYS AND NIGHT IN THE FOREST has received the 4k treatment it so richly deserves. Matt Delman goes along for the ride in this review...
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DAYS AND NIGHT IN THE FOREST
Check out Matt Delman’s Days and Night in the Forest movie review, fresh from the fest. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Satyajit Ray (1921-1992, R.I.P.) was a world-re...
https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/days-and-night-in-the-forest/
23 days ago
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Zack Khalil is a filmmaker and artist from the Ojibway tribe and Jack Schenker spoke with him back at
#Sundance
about his fascinating doc AANIKOBIJIGAN which examines Native American remains held by museums despite a Congressional act demanding their return...
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A Conversation with Zack Khalil (AANIKOBIJIGAN)
“When I enter a museum, I’m not looking for what’s on the walls, I’m looking at what’s behind them,” says a participant in Aanikoobijigan [ancestor/great-grandparent/great-grandchild]. “I wonder if pe...
https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/zack-khalil/
25 days ago
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Will Thwaites' doc CRIME & PARODY tells the truer than fiction story of a man arrested for parodying local police. It premiered at Big Sky Documentary Film Festival on Feb. 21st, Chris Reed has this review...
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CRIME & PARODY
(Check out Chris Reed’s Crime & Parody movie review. The film world premiered at Big Sky Documentary Film Festival on Feb. 21st.  Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) We te...
https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/crime-parody/
27 days ago
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As has become the most welcome norm, the short films nominated for an
#Oscar
this year have all hit theaters nationwide. Also, as become the wonderful norm, HtN lead critic Chris Reed has checked them out and chosen his faves...
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2026 Oscar-Nominated Short Films
The 2026 Academy Awards will take place on Sunday, March 15. As I do every year, I have watched all 15 of the nominated short films, which are divided into the 3 separate categories of animation, docu...
https://www.hammertonail.com/features/2026-oscar-shorts/
29 days ago
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Charles Burnett's second film, MY BROTHER'S WEDDING, is slowly but surely getting the respect it deserves and a new 4K release hits theaters soon. Brandon Wilson has this review...
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about 1 month ago
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It's definitely movie awards season and HtN was BUSY all of 2025 covering so many of the films nominated for the
#Oscars
. Check out all the amazing coverage we provided and let's get those Oscar parties started!
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Oscars 2026 Nominees at Hammer to Nail
On January 22, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (or AMPAS) announced its nominees for the 2026 Oscars last week. Below, you will find the complete list, with the titles that Hammer to N...
https://www.hammertonail.com/features/htn-oscars-2026/
about 1 month ago
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Paris Barclay gives the late, great Billy Preston a much overdue documentary with BILLY PRESTON: THAT’S THE WAY GOD PLANNED IT which opens this Friday at Film Forum NYC (
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). HtN editor Don R. Lewis gets in tune with this review...
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BILLY PRESTON: THAT'S THE WAY GOD PLANNED IT
(Check out Don R. Lewis’s Billy Preston: That’s The Way God Planned It movie review. The film is premiering on Friday, February 20th at NYC’s Film Forum. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our...
https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/billy-preston-doc/
about 1 month ago
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NB Mager's debut feature RUN AMOK just premiered at
#Sundance
where Jack Schenker spoke with cast and crew including Alyssa Marvin, Frank Hall Green, Pilot Bunch, Kal Wilson, Allan Lopez & Margaret Cho...
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A Conversation with Alyssa Marvin, Frank Hall Green, Pilot Bunch, Kal Wilson, Allan Lopez & Margaret Cho (RUN AMOK)
Run Amok is written and directed by NB Mager, expanding from her award-winning short film of the same name which won the Grand Jury Prize at IFF Boston and qualified for Oscar consideration. The film ...
https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/run-amok/
about 1 month ago
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Icelandic writer and director Hlynur Pálmason's latest, THE LOVE THAT REMAINS, is in theaters now. Jack Schenker dug deep with him in this conversation...
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A Conversation with Hlynur Pálmason (THE LOVE THAT REMAINS)
Hlynur Pálmason is an Icelandic writer and director. For his latest project The Love That Remains, the filmmaker delivers a poignant, domestic drama that observes life’s changes with humor and whimsy,...
https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/hlynur-palmason/
about 1 month ago
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At
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, Jack Schenker got to speak with filmmaker Myrsini Aristidou who's film HOLD ONTO ME won the Audience Award for World Cinema: Dramatic...
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A Conversation with Myrsini Aristidou (HOLD ONTO ME)
Myrsini Aristidou is a Cypriot filmmaker born and raised in Limassol. She holds a BFA in Film and Art History from Pratt Institute and an MFA in Film Directing from NYU Tisch School of the Arts, and i...
https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/myrsini-aristidou/
about 1 month ago
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The early days of public access TV were akin to the Wild West as cities were shocked to learn what they HAD to put on TV. David Shadrack Smith's
#Sundance
doc PUBLIC ACCESS gets into it and Chris Reed spoke with him and subject Jake Fogelnest...
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A Conversation with David Shadrack Smith & Jake Fogelnest (PUBLIC ACCESS)
Director David Shadrack Smith just premiered his feature-documentary debut, Public Access, at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival where I reviewed it. The film showcases all the wild, vibrant, and very we...
https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/public-access-doc/
about 1 month ago
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At
#Sundance
, Jack Schenker spoke to the filmmakers behind the Wu-Tang Clan documentary THE DISCIPLE...
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A Conversation with Joanna Natasegara, Abigail Anketell-Jones, Chloe Lambourne & Cyrus Bozorgmehr (THE DISCIPLE)
The Disciple is a documentary about the creation of Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, the Wu-Tang Clan album famously pressed as a single copy and sold at auction for $2 million in 2015—the most expensive ...
https://www.hammertonail.com/film-festivals/the-disciple/
about 1 month ago
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Back at
#Sundance
, Jack Schenker had the chance to speak with filmmaker Visar Morina about his buzzed about feature, SHAME AND MONEY...
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A Conversation with Visar Morina (SHAME AND MONEY)
Visar Morina was born in Pristina, Kosovo in 1979, when the region was still part of Yugoslavia. At 15, his family fled as refugees during the turmoil that would eventually lead to the Kosovo War, and...
https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/visar-morina/
about 1 month ago
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Back at
#Sundance
, lead critic Chris Reed spoke to filmmaker Felipe Bustos Sierra about his doc EVERYBODY TO KENMURE STREET which highlights a 2021 protest in Glasgow...
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A Conversation with Felipe Bustos Sierra (EVERYBODY TO KENMURE STREET)
Everybody to Kenmure Street (which I reviewed here), from director Felipe Bustos Sierra (Nae Pasaran), just premiered at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival. The documentary highlights a 2021 protest in G...
https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/felipe-bustos-sierra/
about 1 month ago
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Beth de Araújo’s JOSEPHINE (starring Channing Tatum) was the sensation of the 2026
#Sundance
winning both the U.S. Grand Jury Prize & the Audience Award in the U.S. Dramatic Competition. Jack Schenker spoke with the cast and crew...
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A Conversation with Eleanore Pienta, Syra McCarthy, Dana Millican & Josh Peters (JOSEPHINE)
Josephine is the sensation of the 2026 Sundance Film Festival. Writer-director Beth de Araújo’s sophomore feature won both the U.S. Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award in the U.S. Dramatic Competi...
https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/josephine-movie/
about 1 month ago
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Michael Almereyda’s interesting and somewhat Lynchian 1984 vampire film NADJA has been given the 4k restoration. It hits theaters tomorrow before expanding. Jonathan Marlow takes a bite...
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NADJA (1984)
(Check out Jonathan Marlow’s Nadja movie review. Michael Almereyda’s 1984 vampire film has been given the 4k restoration treatment and is in theaters now. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on ou...
https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/nadja-1984/
about 1 month ago
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In
#Sundance
doc PUBLIC ACCESS, director David Shadrack Smith examines the Wild West of the airwaves, with all the mayhem and fun that comes with it. Chris Reed tunes in to his review...
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PUBLIC ACCESS
(The 2026 Sundance Film Festival kicked off Thursday, January 22 and ran through Sunday, February 1 for, sadly the last time, in and around Park City, Utah. Check out Chris Reed’s Public Access movie ...
https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/public-access/
about 2 months ago
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Korean American filmmaker Stephanie Ahn's debut feature BEDFORD PARK won the U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Debut Feature at
#Sundance
and was acquired by Sony Pictures Classics. Jack Schenker spoke with her about the film...
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A Conversation with Stephanie Ahn (BEDFORD PARK)
Stephanie Ahn is a Korean American filmmaker who came to the United States at age two. She worked as an editor on films including Debra Granik’s Winter’s Bone (2010) and Israel Horovitz’s My Old Lady ...
https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/stephanie-ahn/
about 2 months ago
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Peaceful protest can lead to positive change as director Felipe Bustos Sierra shows in his doc EVERYBODY TO KENMURE STREET which just premiered at
#Sundance
. Chris Reed has this review
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EVERYBODY TO KENMURE STREET
(The 2026 Sundance Film Festival kicks off Thursday, January 22 and ran through Sunday, February 1 for, sadly the last time, in and around Park City, Utah. Check out Chris Reed’s Shame and Money movie...
https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/everybody-to-kenmure-st/
about 2 months ago
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William Greaves’s son, David Greaves completes the film his father never had time to complete in ONCE UPON A TIME IN HARLEM. Jack Schenker says it was the best film he saw at
#Sundance
where he spoke to the filmmakers...
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A Conversation with David Greaves, Liani Greaves, Anne de Mare & Lynn True (ONCE UPON A TIME IN HARLEM)
Once Upon a Time in Harlem is the best film I saw at Sundance this year. It is also, in a sense, a miracle. In 1972, the legendary documentary filmmaker William Greaves—director of the avant-garde mas...
https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/once-upon-a-time-in-harlem/
about 2 months ago
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Chris Reed
about 2 months ago
ARCO is one of my two favorite animated films of 2025. My
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Writer-director Liz Sargent's feature debut TAKE ME HOME just won the Waldo Salt Award for screenwriting at
#Sundance
. M.J. O'Toole says the film has deep empathy with its characters....
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TAKE ME HOME
(The 2026 Sundance Film Festival kicks off Thursday, January 22 and runs through Sunday, February 1 for, sadly the last time, in and around Park City, Utah. Check out M.J. O’Toole’s Take Me Home movie...
https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/take-me-home/
about 2 months ago
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Congrats to SHAME AND MONEY which won the World Cinema Dramatic Competition award at
#SundanceFilmFestival
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Congrats to TO HOLD A MOUNTAIN,
#Sundance
World Cinema Documentary Competition winner!
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about 2 months ago
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French director Ugo Bienvenu makes his feature debut with the gorgeous animated film ARCO featuring voice work by Will Ferrell & Andy Samberg. It's in theaters now via Neon and Chris Reed has this review...
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ARCO
(Check out Chris Reed’s Arco movie review, it’s in theaters now via Neon. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Time travel films always force the viewer to decide how much ...
https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/arco/
about 2 months ago
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After a wildly successful film festival run, Suzannah Herbert's NATCHEZ opens Friday, Jan 20 at the Film Forum in NYC before a national rollout. Lauren Wissot digs in on the unique and multilayered film...
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Another Angle On: NATCHEZ
Natchez, Mississippi has a wealth of history, and a history of wealth – perhaps the only two facts its residents can agree on. Throughout much of the 19th century Natchez was one of the richest areas ...
https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/natchez-another-angle/
about 2 months ago
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From
#Sundance
Visar Morina's latest, SHAME AND MONEY has a title which kind of says it all. Chris Reed says it's "a sharp critique of humanity’s love of stratification"...
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SHAME AND MONEY
(The 2026 Sundance Film Festival kicks off Thursday, January 22 and runs through Sunday, February 1 for, sadly the last time, in and around Park City, Utah. Check out Chris Reed’s Shame and Money movi...
https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/shame-and-money/
about 2 months ago
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From
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TO HOLD A MOUNTAIN
(The 2026 Sundance Film Festival kicks off Thursday, January 22 and runs through Sunday, February 1 for, sadly the last time, in and around Park City, Utah. Check out Chris Reed’s To Hold a Mountain m...
https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/to-hold-a-mountain/
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Experimental filmmaker Barbara Hammer gets the documentary treatment in Brydie O’Connor’s
#Sundance2026
film BARBARA FOREVER. Chris Reed has this review....
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BARBARA FOREVER
(The 2026 Sundance Film Festival kicks off Thursday, January 22 and runs through Sunday, February 1 for, sadly the last time, in and around Park City, Utah. Check out Chris Reed’s Barbara Forever movi...
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Utah native Abby Ellis makes her directorial debut with her doc THE LAKE, a sobering look at the ever-shrinking Great Salt Lake and what than means for Utahns. M.J. O'Toole has this review out of
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THE LAKE
(The 2026 Sundance Film Festival kicks off Thursday, January 22 and runs through Sunday, February 1 for, sadly the last time, in and around Park City, Utah. Check out M.J. O’Toole’s The Lake movie rev...
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#Sundance2026
is in full swing and Matt Delman infiltrates Louis Paxton’s debut feature THE INCOMER which stars Domhnall Gleason...
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THE INCOMER
The 2026 Sundance Film Festival kicks off Thursday, January 22 and runs through Sunday, February 1 for, sadly the last time, in and around Park City, Utah. Check out Matt Delman’s The Incomer movie re...
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A PRIVATE LIFE, French director Rebecca Zlotowski's latest film, is a mystery thriller with a strong dash of black humor starring Jodie Foster. Chris Reed had a lively chat with Zlotowski, the film is in theaters now...
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A Conversation with Rebecca Zlotowski (A PRIVATE LIFE)
A Private Life, the latest feature from French director Rebecca Zlotowski (Other People’s Children), stars the great Jodie Foster as an American psychotherapist living in Paris. When a patient of hers...
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Mascha Schilinski's debut feature SOUND OF FALLING won the Cannes Grand Jury prize last year and is in theaters now via Mubi. Jack Schenker spoke with her and cinematographer Fabian Gamper about the film...
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A Conversation with Mascha Schilinski & Fabian Gamper (SOUND OF FALLING)
Sound of Falling, Mascha Schilinski’s ravishing and uncanny debut feature, traces a century of girlhood on a single farm in Germany’s Altmark region. The film moves between four time periods—Alma in t...
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film festival kicks off TOMORROW for its final bow in Utah. HtN staff is hydrated and chock full of vitamin C as they prepare to check out their top 12 most anticipated films!
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HtN's 12 Most Anticipated Films of Sundance 2026
The 2026 Sundance Film Festival kicks off Thursday, January 22 and runs through Sunday, February 1 for, sadly the last time, in and around Park City, Utah. Last years passing of Sundance progenitor Ro...
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