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- DirectorHal HartleyStarsThomas Jay RyanJames UrbaniakParker PoseyAn introverted garbageman writes his thoughts in a notebook after Henry Fool, writer and ex-con, rents the basement and gives him a notebook and the idea. He writes poetry and Henry helps him along.
- DirectorHal HartleyStarsJanine EriksenGeorge FeasterBob GosseHal Hartley's thesis film from the State University of New York at Purchase where he graduated in 1984. The film was finally completed the following year and broadcast on PBS in 1986.
- DirectorHal HartleyStarsLorraine AcheeMarissa ChibasGeorge FeasterA shy and introverted city surveyor has his quiet, scholarly world turned upside down when a young woman mysteriously appears in his apartment.
- DirectorHal HartleyStarsMike BradyRicky LudwigGary SauerBursts of canine aggression punctuate a portrait of three men confronting their friendship and failings.
- DirectorHal HartleyStarsGeorge FeasterHannah SullivanRick GroelA 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.
- DirectorHal HartleyStarsBob GosseJessica SagerJeffrey HowardAffectionately 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.
- DirectorHal HartleyStarsPatricia DunnockParker PoseyAdrienne ShellyTwo charming but inept agents of the supernatural (sort of like cupid goddesses) decide to interfere in human affairs. Mini Musical Comedy. Like one of those Shakespeare situation comedies in the woods. Or the Beatles "Magical Mystery Tour." A mini-opera with some sort of dense but ultimately meaningless plot. There's a young man who works too much and who needs to fall in love and a young woman in similar straits on the far side of the forest. The goddesses split up and attempt to cast spells on the mortals. But one of them, while casting a spell calculated to make the man fall in love with the first girl he sees, bungles the job. He falls wildly in love with her instead. She tries to escape but he steals her roller blades, without which she cannot return to the spirit world. Lot's of running around, mistaken identities, everyone gets lost, some arias, later... The goddesses do somehow manage to bring the two overworked mortals crashing into one another's arms and to retrieve the supernatural roller blades. We'll figure that out later.
- DirectorHal HartleyStarsDwight EwellLianna PaiPaul SchulzeIt is March 1 1994 and we see four characters while New York is under attack.
- DirectorHal HartleyStarsSabrina LloydParker PoseyExperimental short film in which two women secluded in an apartment impersonate the promised benefits and investment risks of real estate purchases, but as people, instead of as the land value with buildings and resources involved in it.
- DirectorHal HartleyStarsElina LöwensohnMiho NikaidoJames UrbaniakA slow, meditative piece of visual music commissioned by the Paris Gallery of the Foundation Cartier for their group show, "Amours." Different artists, filmmakers and writers were asked to make something treating the concept of "amour" (or "love"). Hal Hartley decided to treat that aspect of love which is charity and deconstructed the well known phrase from the gospel of Mark regarding "turning the other cheek."
- DirectorHal HartleyStarsD.J. MendelDavid NeumannMiho NikaidoTwo students and their teacher seem to be literally fighting 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 secret urges?
- DirectorHal HartleyStarsSabrina LloydParker PoseyParker Posey and Sabrina Lloyd discuss an assortment of concerns in Hal Hartley's THE SISTERS OF MERCY, all loosely connected to a song by the Breeders. It is both a film about real estate dilemmas and a film about the making of a film about real estate dilemmas. Sort of.
- DirectorHal HartleyStarsChristina FlickAn 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.
- DirectorHal HartleyStarsLouis AndriessenKyle GilmanHal HartleyHartley'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."
- DirectorHal HartleyStarsNikolai KinskiBettina ZimmermannIreen KirschA 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.
- DirectorHal HartleyStarsHal HartleyMiho NikaidoHartley 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.
- DirectorHal HartleyStarsJean-Luc GodardJordana MaurerD.J. MendelAn artist-criminal far from home asks his assistant to pirate a rare videotape before the German Post Office Authorities come to confiscate it.