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Hal Hartley A leader of the 1990s US independent filmmaking movement, Hal Hartley is an independent film producer and filmmaker. He ... works in theater and has created a number of short films and video pieces. His first feature film The Unbelievable Truth (1988) was released in 1990. He has made many films since then, including Trust, Simple Men, Amateur, Flirt, Henry Fool, The Book of Life and No Such Thing (screened at !f 2002).
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Hal Hartley (born November 3, 1959) is a film director and writer. Hartley's unique style has helped him develop a cult following. Many of his films have recurring themes, including settings on Long Island, where he was born. He ... uses many of the same actors repeatedly, including: Robert Burke, Martin Donovan, Elina Lowensohn, Damian Young, and Karen Sillas.
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Hal Hartley has had a rabid cult following since he wrote and directed such films as The Unbelievable Truth and Trust. Since creating his biggest grossing film, Henry Fool, Hartley has taken many different risks with his work such as working with a major studio on No Such Thing and now he is prepping a sequel to Henry Fool called Fay Grim.
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Over the years, Long Island auteur Hal Hartley has made a name for himself in the world of American independent film with a string of oddball, formally intriguing gems. While he hasn't yet achieved the fame/notoriety of brethren like Steven Soderbergh or Quentin Tarantino, his films (The Unbelievable Truth, Trust, Simple Men, Amateur, Flirt, Henry Fool, and a slew of shorts, many done for European TV) are just as distinctive, thoughtful and flat-out entertaining as any put out during the indie boom of the last 15 years.
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Hal Hartley's "The Unbelievable Truth" helped jumpstart the independent film movement in the U.S. almost 20 years ago. Hartley followed "Truth" with eight more features in the next ten years. Since then, changes in geography -- yes, the quintessential New York filmmaker doesn't live in New York anymore -- and work styles have put a little more distance between Hartley's pieces and ... given the director a chance to experiment with form, as he tells Robert Avila in this wide-ranging interview (the first of two parts) conducted during his visit to San Francisco for SFIFF50. Hartley and his wife, designer and actress Miho Nikaido, have been Berlin-based for the past several years now. Because they share a distributor and leading actress, Hartley and Zoe Cassavettes ("Broken English") have been traveling on an overlapping promotional tour, which began at Sundance and touched down in San Francisco last week. His film, "Fay Grim," opens Bay Area theaters May 18, at which point SF360.org will be featuring more of this interview.
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Stridently independent, Hal Hartley has been making films on his own terms and with his own circle of actors for over 15 years. Beginning in the early days of the 90s onslaught of "New American Independent Cinema," Hartley carved out a unique niche for himself. His homegrown (shot on his home turf of Long Island or New York City) and handcrafted (he is frequently writer, director, producer and composer) films are always humorous and always have something important to say about modern society. From the strange but inevitable love story of THE UNBELIEVABLE TRUTH to his current experiments in genre film (NO SUCH THING) to his tour-de-force, HENRY FOOL, Hartley's originality is always apparent and always welcome, especially in a world where it seems independent cinema has become just another commodity for major corporations to buy and sell. This brief overview of his films is merely a sampling of this great filmmaking talent.
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