Hal Hartley
Director, Actor
- No Alternative
- Dir. Hal Hartley, Derek Jarman
Feat. Lou Reed
- A benefit for AIDS education and relief, indie bands (Smashing Pumpkins, Breeders etc.) and directors (Hal Hartley, Derek Jarman etc.) fuse their…
- Unbelievable Truth, The (1989)
- Dir. Hal Hartley
Feat. Adrienne Shelly, Robert Burke, Chris Cooke…
- The folk of a backward American town get a mite nervous when a mechanic returns after spending 15 years in prison for murdering his father and…
- Trust (1990)
- Dir. Hal Hartley
Feat. Adrienne Shelly, Martin Donovan, Edie Falco…
- A blackly comic examination of suburban neuroses with Adrienne Shelly returning for the director as a college drop–out who befriends an equally…
- Surviving Desire (Hal Hartley Shorts) (1991)
- Dir. Hal Hartley
Feat. Martin Donovan
- The hour–long 'Surviving Desire' is an earlier Hartley work that focuses on Hartley's world of the 'college–educated slacker' whose…
- Simple Men (1992)
- Dir. Hal Hartley
Feat. Robert Burke, Bill Sage, Martin Donovan…
- Hartley's third feature re–visits his deadpan, sexy and intellectual world in which two brothers set off to find their estranged father.
- Everything But The Girl - Home Movies (1993)
- Dir. John Maybury, Hal Hartley
- 14 songs from the more winsome, pre–dance incarnation of EBTG, including clips directed John Maybury and Hal Hartley.
- Amateur (1995)
- Dir. Hal Hartley
Feat. Isabelle Huppert, Martin Donovan, Elina Lowensohn
- Hal Hartley approaches the conventions of a thriller in further probing his fixation with dysfunctional romance and relationships, and thus checks in…
- Flirt (1995)
- Dir. Hal Hartley
Feat. Parker Posey, Martin Donovan
- Moderately successful filmic experiment from Hal Hartley, peddling his usual studied ironies in a story told three times over, in New York, Berlin…
- Henry Fool (1998)
- Dir. Hal Hartley
Feat. Thomas Jay Ryan, Parker Posey, James Urbaniak…
- Hal Hartley gathers several unlikely narrative threads concerning a bottled–up trashman composing an epic poem while under the spell of…
- Book of Life (1998)
- Dir. Hal Hartley
Feat. Martin Donovan, Polly Jean Harvey, Thomas Jay Ryan
- The return of Jesus Christ in the hours prior to Armageddon, December 31, 1999, is told in a series of wry, amusing and thoughtful scenes by indie…
- Fay Grim (2006)
- Dir. Hal Hartley
Feat. Parker Posey, Jeff Goldblum, Thomas Jay Ryan…
- This unlikely sequel to HENRY FOOL finds Parker Posey deep undercover for the CIA, dispatched to France to recover her ex–husband’s (ruffian…