Hal Hartley Movies

A Paul Joyce documentary on the American independent film scene.

A sort of birthday card for Dutch composer Louis Andriessen.

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...

21 monologues written by American playwrights form a sort of fractured portrait of the American collective psyche. Ranging from the sad to the...

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...

Self-funded Hal Hartley project shot on 16mm with a focus on a somewhat bizarre romance.

A series of impromptu interviews with Hal Hartley, Adrienne Shelly, and some of Hartley's other most frequent collaborators on his style, career, and...

A woman talks about how hard her life is.

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...

A comic drama about a time in the near future when citizens are happy to be property traded on the stock exchange.

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...

A documentary concerning the periods between the actual takes during the production of Hartley's short film "Iris," revealing the imagination,...

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...

A behind the scenes look, including an interview with Hal Hartley, surrounding his play "Soon," a production inspired by the 1993 events in Waco,...

Over one night in New York City, lives of disparate strangers intersect by fate and circumstance.

A commercially realistic but artistically conflicted playwright lends his Berlin apartment to a young actress friend so she can rehearse her drama...

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...

Meanwhile concerns Joe Fulton, a man who can do anything from fixing your sink to arranging international financing for a construction project. He...

The job, should you choose to accept it: two young women playing out roles associated with the purchasing of real estate. Questions regarding the...

A short documentary about the making of 'Fay Grim.'