Official Hal Hartley Films Thread.

[Oscar Antonio M]

Though i seriously doubt that any of you has heard from the guy.

His films are a gem of indepent cinema.


To light you up a little bit here is filmography
1:The Unbeliveable Truth
2:Simple Men
3:Trust
4:Surving Desire
5:Amateur
6:Flirt
7:Henry Fool
8:The Book of Life
9:Henry Fool
10: No Such Thing.

His best film is without a doubt Henry Fool or Simple Men
His worst No Such Thing (well not horrible, but not quite good) and Flirt.

[Marq]

I am a HUGE fan of the Hartley films:

- Henry Fool
and
- Trust

I look forward to seeing more of his films, particularly when No Such Thing arrives on DVD soon. I've also seen Amateur, but was a tad disappointed in comparision to my 2 favorites of his. It's a shame most of his films are not available on DVD (only the Unbelievable Truth, The Book of Life and the upcoming No Such Thing I believe).

I know retroboy is a big Hartley fan. He started an earlier thread on the films of Hal Hartley not too long ago.
... where are you retroboy?

[Avid]

While I haven't heard from Hal Hartley, I have heard of him. I've wanted to see his films for a long time. Hope they get good DVD treatment soon.

[Oscar Antonio M]

I became a Hartley fan after seeing The Book of Life.

"Its amazing the things they do. Theyre inventing themselves now. Artificial Intelligence and cybergenetics and so on"
"Its impressive, i admit"
"Theyre cross fertilizing pears with apples and goats with sheeps, tobbaco plans with lighting bugs"
"Now thats just stupid"
"Oh, i agree"

[Oscar Antonio M]

I plan on starting a petition to send it to Criterion to release his films on DVD´s.

A Criterion Henry Fool?! FRIGGIN´AWESOME!

But i heard that Criterion plans on releasing all Fox Lorber/Winstar titles and SURVIVING DESIRE AND THE BOOK OF LIFE WILL PROBABLY BE A PART OF IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

YAY!!!!!!!

[Oscar Antonio M]

But from what i know Mr. Hartley loves the DVD format but he dosent like to do commentaries.

But i would love to see
1:Interviews with the cast and crew
2:Soundtrack featurette
3: Outtakes
4: Deleted Scenes


But dosen´t sound much of what a Criterion DVD.

But though Hartley wouldn´t do a commentary i would love to hear one with his cast and crew.

AND HENRY FOOL is schedchuled for an early 2003 release!!!!!!
"Simon, kiss my (BLEEP)"
:barf:

[LeonardShelby]

Out of the Hartley films I've seen..."Trust" and "Simple Men" are my favorites.

I especially enjoyed "Trust" the most! Great screenwriter! I look forward to releases of more of his films on DVD!