Hal Hartley Trailers
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Hal Hartley (born November 3, 1959) is an American film director, screenwriter, and composer, who became a key figure in the American independent film movement of the 1980s and 1990s. He is best known for his films Trust, Amateur and Henry Fool, which are notable for deadpan humour and offbeat characters quoting philosophical dialogue. His films provided a career launch for a number of actors, including Adrienne Shelly, Edie Falco, Martin Donovan, Parker Posey, Karen Sillas and Elina Löwensohn. Hartley frequently scores his own films using his pseudonym Ned Rifle, and his soundtracks regularly feature music by indie rock acts Yo La Tengo and PJ Harvey.
Most Popular Hal Hartley Trailers
Total trailers found: 50
22 May 2007
A short documentary about the making of 'Fay Grim.'
31 January 1992
Follows a day in the life of a young artist who longs for professional success and the attention of beautiful women, but who encounters only frustration and violence.
27 April 1986
A concert film directed by and featuring the music of Laurie Anderson, filmed at the Park Theater in Union City, New Jersey, during the summer of 1985.
04 July 2014
21 monologues written by American playwrights form a sort of fractured portrait of the American collective psyche.
14 October 1992
Two diametrically opposite brothers set off on a journey to reunite with their estranged father but when their motorcycle breaks down while passing through a small town, they become entangled in local life.
01 November 2010
A series of impromptu interviews with Hal Hartley, Adrienne Shelly, and some of Hartley's other most frequent collaborators on his style, career, and process.
01 January 2005
An 18-minute documentary made in 2005 by perennial Hartley actor D.J. Mendel, reunites the director and line producer Ted Hope with actors Adrienne Shelly and Martin Donovan for an off-the-cuff, affectionate, and surprisingly candid (it was hardly an easy shoot) recollection of their collaboration on the demanding Hartley's second feature.
14 September 1995
The same situation is played out in different cities (New York, Berlin and Tokyo). A lover has to choose whether to commit to a partner who is returning home.
29 March 2002
A young journalist journeys to Iceland to find her missing fiancé only to encounter a mythical creature who longs to die.
05 August 1994
A man wakes up in an alley, bleeding and with no memory of who he is. He stumbles into a coffee shop and is befriended by a charitable ex-nun who is failing in her attempts to write marketable pornography.
03 September 1999
A documentary on the career of filmmaker John Waters. Featuring interviews with actors and fellow film-makers.
20 July 1990
After serving time for murder, Josh Hutton returns to his home town where he meets Audry Hugo. No one can remember exactly what Josh did.
01 January 1987
Self-funded Hal Hartley project shot on 16mm with a focus on a somewhat bizarre romance.
25 September 1993
A Paul Joyce documentary on the American independent film scene.
01 January 2004
A behind the scenes look, including an interview with Hal Hartley, surrounding his play "Soon," a production inspired by the 1993 events in Waco, Texas involving the religious sect called the Branch Davidians and their collision with the US Federal Government.
11 September 1993
In New York, Bill struggles to decide whether he has a future with Emily, while attempting to restrain Walter, the angry husband of a woman he thinks he might be in love with.
01 January 1988
A short film about friendship, disillusionment, loathing and despair, in which the pictures of three young men talking are juxtaposed with slowmotion shots of aggressive dogs.
22 February 1994
The job, should you choose to accept it: two young women playing out roles associated with the purchasing of real estate.
04 June 2000
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.
18 May 2007
Many years after her notorious husband, Henry Fool, fled after killing a neighbor, Fay Grim receives a visit from CIA agent Fulbright, who tells her that Henry is dead, but that some of his journals have been unearthed in France.
01 March 1994
The mundane circumstances of a city under siege.
29 November 2011
Meanwhile concerns Joe Fulton, a man who can do anything from fixing your sink to arranging international financing for a construction project.
14 November 2021
As the muse of Hal Hartley’s indie classics and as writer/director of the critically acclaimed Waitress, Adrienne Shelly was a shining star in the indie film firmament.
09 September 1990
After being thrown away from home, pregnant high school dropout Maria meets Matthew, a highly educated and extremely moody electronics repairman.
22 August 1998
New Year's Eve takes on new meaning when the Devil, Jesus Christ, and Christ's assistant Magdalena discuss and debate the End of the World.
24 September 2021
Amidst the devastation of post-crisis Spain, mother and daughter bluff and grift to keep up the lifestyle they think they deserve, bonding over common tragedy and an impending eviction.
22 January 1992
Jude, a college professor, is obsessed with Sophie, his student. She, in turn, is intrigued by his scholarly charm.
12 September 2025
Joseph Fulton, a famous director, wants to work at a cemetery. Meanwhile, he has his last will and testament drawn up.
31 March 2000
The life and times of Baltimore film maker and midnight movie pioneer, John Waters.
01 January 2010
A sort of birthday card for Dutch composer Louis Andriessen.
18 January 2003
Over one night in New York City, lives of disparate strangers intersect by fate and circumstance.
22 April 2010
Hartley and his wife, Miho Nikaido, travel to Japan to see her parents and reflect on 12 years of marriage, her career ambitions, and the adventures of growing older.
22 April 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.
10 May 2002
A young doctor believes that the spirit of his late wife has possessed a troubled patient in his hospital.
02 November 2012
A woman talks about how hard her life is.
27 April 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.
19 June 1998
An egocentric bum transforms the lives of a shy New Jersey garbageman and his sister.
07 March 1991
This short film was packaged on video with Hartley's featurette "Surviving Desire." It affectionately examines the lives of a group of "young, middle-class, white, college-educated, unskilled, broke, drunk" Brooklynites who would love to make something of their lives -- assuming they can pay the rent first.
05 June 1997
A minimalist, atmospheric, meditation on the theme of "Love" or "Amour" that focuses on reconciliation and forgiveness.
10 June 2014
Louis Andriessen's opera, based on Dante's Divine Comedy, plays out as a combination of a stage production and filmed elements, which sees Dante as a journalist, Beatrice as a Diplomat and Lucifer as a factory owner.
01 April 2015
Henry’s and Fay's son Ned sets out to find and kill his father for destroying his mother's life. But his aims are frustrated by the troublesome Susan, whose connection to Henry predates even his arrival in the lives of the Grim family.
17 October 1997
A small Oklahoma town is stripped of its innocence when one of its boys turns up mute and bloodied by the lakeside.
22 April 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.
26 January 2005
A comic drama about a time in the near future when citizens are happy to be property traded on the stock exchange.
23 November 2004
A documentary concerning the periods between the actual takes during the production of Hartley's short film "Iris," revealing the imagination, diligence and patience that goes into composing a shot.
01 July 1984
Hal Hartley's senior thesis film from SUNY-Purchase. A young man attempts to leave his Long Island suburb, but is thwarted by a series of absurd obstacles.
02 January 1994
A comical mini opera following the exploits of two goddesses interfering with the lives of mortals. Mistaken identities, miscast spells, and rollerblades abound.
22 April 2010
An artist-criminal far from home asks his assistant to pirate a rare videotape before the German Post Office Authorities come to confiscate it.
01 January 2004
Excerpts from performances of Hal Hartley's play "Soon", a production inspired by the 1993 events in Waco, Texas involving the religious sect called the Branch Davidians and their collision with the US Federal Government.
12 March 2001
This film is the visual component of the multi-media collaboration between the composer Louis Andriessen and Hal Hartley.
