Hal Hartley Filmes

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

An egocentric bum transforms the lives of a shy New Jersey garbageman and his sister.

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...

After being thrown away from home, pregnant high school dropout Maria meets Matthew, a highly educated and extremely moody electronics repairman. The...

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...

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...

Jude, a college professor, is obsessed with Sophie, his student. She, in turn, is intrigued by his scholarly charm. Flirtation turns to lust and the...

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

Two diametrically opposite brothers set off on a journey to reunite with their estranged father but when their motorcycle breaks down while passing...

This short film was packaged on video with Hartley's featurette "Surviving Desire." It affectionately examines the lives of a group of "young,...

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

A Paul Joyce documentary on the American independent film scene.

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...

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 life and times of Baltimore film maker and midnight movie pioneer, John Waters.

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...

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...

A documentary on the career of filmmaker John Waters. Featuring interviews with actors and fellow film-makers. The life and death of the actor Divine...

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...

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