Hal Hartley

  • Hal Hartley – The Apologies (2010)

    Hal Hartley2001-2010DramaShort FilmUSA
    The Apologies (2010)
    The Apologies (2010)

    A commercially realistic but artistically conflicted playwright lends his Berlin apartment to a young actress friend so she can rehearse her drama school audition while he goes off to save his doomed production in New York.Read More »

  • Hal Hartley – Implied Harmonies (2010)

    Hal Hartley2001-2010DocumentaryShort FilmUSA
    Implied Harmonies (2010)
    Implied Harmonies (2010)

    Hartley’s conscientious assistant in Berlin receives weekly letters from her boss and sends him the books he needs as he struggles in Amsterdam to create the staging for Dutch composer Louis Andriessen’s opera, “la Commedia.”Read More »

  • Hal Hartley – A/Muse (2010)

    Hal Hartley2001-2010DramaShort FilmUSA
    A:Muse (2010)
    A:Muse (2010)

    An ambitious and idealistic young actress comes to Berlin to convince an American ex-pat filmmaker that she must be his next muse – the leading lady of his first great German film.Read More »

  • Hal Hartley – The New Math(s) (2000)

    1991-2000Hal HartleyShort FilmUnited Kingdom
    The New Math(s) (2000)
    The New Math(s) (2000)

    Two students and their teacher seem to be fighting – literally – over the proper solution to a complex mathematical equation. Is it the key to time and space or a coded instruction manual about their own secrete urges? An alchemical action movie? A real life cartoon with original music by Dutch heavyweight, Louis Andriessen. Hal Hartley fashioned this whimsical piece of fight choreography with three of his recent performer/collaborators, Miho Nikaido, David Neumann and DJ Mendel.Read More »

  • Hal Hartley – The Sisters of Mercy (2004)

    Hal Hartley2001-2010DramaShort FilmUSA
    The Sisters of Mercy (2004)
    The Sisters of Mercy (2004)

    Hal Hartley reveals the tireless experimentation, curiousity and playfulness that lies behind his many feature films in his this short film, The Sisters of Mercy, starring Parker Posey and Sabrina Lloyd.Read More »

  • Hal Hartley – My America (2014)

    Hal Hartley2011-2020DramaUSA
    My America (2014)
    My America (2014)

    A series that is comprised of twenty-one monologues written by American playwrights which form a sort of fractured portrait of the American collective psyche. Ranging from the sad to the hilarious, from the angry to the tentatively celebratory, many of the major and recurrent issues associated with our fraught but beloved union are reconsidered with elegance, wit, brutal honesty, and a little outright insanity.Read More »

  • Hal Hartley – Kimono (2000)

    1991-2000GermanyHal HartleyHorrorShort Film

    Synopsis
    A hot summer day on a country road. A young woman in her bridal dress gets kicked out of a car. Lost and frustrated, she wanders off across a sea of grass into a dark wood – and discovers an abandoned house. Tired and worn out, she lies down on a bed. When she is awakened from her nap by a clap of thunder, she sees a cup of steaming hot tea and a package on the floor. She opens it – and finds a kimono. The bride knows she no longer is alone … but should she put on the kimono?Read More »

  • Hal Hartley – Simple Men (1992)

    Hal Hartley1981-1990ArthouseComedyUSA

    Quote:
    A pair of brothers dodge the law while trying to locate their long-lost father in this third feature from independent New York filmmaker Hal Hartley. Robert John Burke stars as Bill McCabe, a failed computer thief who’s just been doublecrossed by his girlfriend and partner. Vowing revenge on the next beautiful blonde he encounters, Bill meets up with his younger brother Dennis (William Sage), a philosophy student concerned about their father William (John A. MacKay). It seems the McCabe paterfamilias was a former major league shortstop who became an anarchist bomber in the 1960s, nearly blowing up the Pentagon. Read More »

  • Hal Hartley – Flirt (1995)

    Hal Hartley1991-2000ArthouseDramaUSA

    Flirt is one of Hartley’s more experimental works. It is, essentially, three variations on one short film, each set in different parts of the world (the US, Germany and Japan). Those that know and love Hartley’s work (especially his shorts) will find themselves right at home. It’s smart, funny and ultimately quite touching.Read More »

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