Watching Hal Hartley films

[itsfredtitmus]

i like how he occupies the middleground between the fast talking hawks and sturges films and the woody allenites of baumbach and stillman

[Gregory Torso]

It's something I didn't really pick up on when watching his films as a teenager but yeah that's a good way to describe the style.

Probably going to watch Surviving Desire next which I saw once, don't remember much about it, except I think it's about a guy obsessed with a paragraph in a text he's teaching. "Knowing is not enough".

[itsfredtitmus]

I've always associated him with steven soderbergh (hard to think of two more disparate indies) because of their mutual love / obsession with Richard Lester

[dontrunyoullfall]

Surviving Desire is fucking superb.

One of my favourite things in this world.

Who knows where we'd be if more people had voted Hartley than Tarantino? Was it Tarantino that gave Weinstein his cache? Research might destroy the theory that I've just constructed so I won't bother doing any, no-one else does anymore.

[Small Man Big Horse]

Just thought I'd bump this as Hartley has appeared on a new podcast - https://boocock.podbean.com/

[phantom_power]

Recently watched The Unbelievable Truth and Trust and am happy to say they hold up to my memories of seeing them on late night Channel 4 back in the day. They have a unique atmosphere. They are like the museum scene from Ferris Bueller stretched out to 90 minutes.

Is the "family's like a gun. Point it in the wrong direction and someone's gonna get killed" a quote from somewhere else or did Belle and Sebastian lift it from Trust?

[Small Man Big Horse]

Hartley's just started a new kickstarter for The Long Island Trilogy (The Unbelievable Truth (1989), Trust (1990) and Simple Men (1992) on DVD or Blu-ray - newly restored in HD and subtitled in French, Spanish, German, Japanese and English) - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/260302407/the-long-island-trilogy-boxed-set?ref=user_menu - it's $70 for the dvd box set, which is a bit too much for me personally, but if anyone hasn't seen them then I'd definitely recommend buying it.

[Small Man Big Horse]

Thought I'd bump this again as Harley is making a new movie, though it's currently part of a kickstarter campaign so by no means definitely happening - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/260302407/where-to-land - I backed the Ned Rifle one quite happily, but given the lack of dvd / download options, and the fact that I don't have a blu-ray player, means I'm probably not going to do so this time around. Ah well, hopefully it won't cost too much to buy if it does get made.

[Enrico Palazzo]

Fay Grim is on the Channel 5 player. Keep meaning to watch it.

[Piggyoioi]

I remember not enjoying Fay Grim, was a decade ago however.

I noticed he directed quite a few episode's of Red Oaks on amazon prime which I quite enjoyed, especially season 2.

[chveik]

hardly a controversial opinion I'm sure, but Surviving Desire is fucking amazing.

[phantom_power]

I am well behind on my Hartley but I loved Trust and The Unbelievable Truth when I first saw them on a Channel 4 season of his films

[Small Man Big Horse]

I remember not enjoying Fay Grim, was a decade ago however.

I noticed he directed quite a few episode's of Red Oaks on amazon prime which I quite enjoyed, especially season 2.

I didn't get on with Henry Fool originally but loved Fay Grim and Ned Rifle, and now all three do it for me.

And ah, you're the other person who watched Red Oaks, it's very nice to meet you.

[phantom_power]

Red Oaks is great. Such great characters and a real 80s feel without being pastiche or too arch

[Gregory Torso]

Probably going to watch Surviving Desire

Yeah, might get around to this soon. No promises though

[checkoutgirl]

Trust is one of my all time favourite films. Haven't watched it about a decade mind. Went through a semi completist phase of watching Hal Hartley films a few years ago but can't remember a single frame of any of them except for Trust. Not sure what that means.

[checkoutgirl]

Searching for Amateur 1994 should help, as well as confining results to video.

First rule of piratebay, whack the year after it to thin down the search and weed out subsequent remakes etc.

[holyzombiejesus]

Trust is one of my all time favourite films. Haven't watched it about a decade mind. Went through a semi completist phase of watching Hal Hartley films a few years ago but can't remember a single frame of any of them except for Trust. Not sure what that means.

There's a bit in Trust where ... oh fuck, I'm pissed and can't remember the line. Anyway, it used to make me cry.