Possible Films
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Surviving Desire
SURVIVING DESIRE is a comedy about obsessive love from the director Time Magazine called “the smartest new outlaw in the movies.” SURVIVING DESIRE is a bold and playful little tale about a handsome young college professor smitten with a beautiful young female student. It is a...Watch Movie
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Kimono
This half hour "ambient narrative" was made for the German TV series. Inspired by some readings in a collection of classical Japanese poetry, the film follows a young bride abandoned at a desolate roadside and her dream-like descent into the depths of the forest. There, other aspects of herself...Watch Movie
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Theory of Achievement
Director Hal Hartley introduces "Low-rent real estate agent" Bob as he is trying to entice two highly unconvinced hipsters to move to the future "21st Century art capital," Williamsburg (back in the days when it could still be funny that anyone would want to live in Brooklyn)....Watch Movie
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Opera no.1
Two 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...Watch Movie
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Accomplice
An artist-criminal far from home asks his assistant to pirate a rare videotape before the German Post Office Authorities come to confiscate it. Featuring Jordana Maurer and an ersatz appearance by Jean-Luc Godard along with the voices of DJ Mendel, Professor David Poeppel and David Bordwell.Watch Movie
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Ambition
Life is so tough in the big city that our hero has to run a gauntlet of assailants just walking to work. Once there, blasé urban hipsters drop philosophical bombshells like cigarette ashes on a carpet. A leather-jacketed artiste of some sort or another, his figure endures the perils of fame, from...Watch Movie
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The Girl from Monday
A Girl drops into the Ocean from outer space. A being from a distant constellation called Monday, assumes the human form of a beautiful young woman in order to look for her friend who arrived years before and whom she suspects is in trouble. Tragic but beautiful and funny, THE...Watch Movie
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The Book of Life
In this darkly comic retelling of the Apocalypse, Jesus (Martin Donovan) arrives at JFK airport with intriguing assistant, Magdalena (PJ Harvey). While the world ponders the meaning of this second coming, Jesus battles the Devil for human souls, risks the wrath of God and...Watch Movie
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The Sisters of Mercy
Parker 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.Watch Movie
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The New Math(s)
Two 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? An alchemical action movie? A real life cartoon with original music by Dutch...Watch Movie
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NYC 3/94
Another video collage, this one woven around the idea of a city under siege. Commissioned by European television, NYC 3/94 is part of a series called POSTCARDS FROM AMERICA. Various American artists were asked to make short videos about the city they lived in. In March 1994, Hal Hartley was...Watch Movie
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The Apologies
A 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. Featuring Nikolai Kinski, Bettina Zimmermann and Ireen Kirsc.Watch Movie
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The Other Also
A 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...Watch Movie
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Implied Harmonies
Hal Hartley'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." Featuring Louis Andriessen, Christina...Watch Movie
