Movies
In “Amateur,” writer-director Hal Hartley’s usual minimalism edges toward the maximal.
May 19, 1995
Television
In Screen Gab No. 98, we recommend the conclusion of a 10-year TV saga, a streaming Hal Hartley retrospective and more.
Sept. 8, 2023
Filmmakers simply don’t come much more independent than Hal Hartley.
April 2, 2015
A Second Look: Hal Hartley reestablishes ‘Trust’
Jan. 19, 2013
Awards
Many of the filmmakers who emerged from the wave of American independent filmmaking of the late 1980s and early ‘90s, such as Richard Linklater, Quentin Tarantino, Jim Jarmusch and Steven Soderbergh, have remained active.
Sept. 13, 2014
If you’re familiar at all with indie filmmaker Hal Hartley’s work, you know there’s a surreal quality to it.
In his seriocomic ‘Soon,’ Hal Hartley reexamines the 1993 disaster in Waco, Texas, in a series of tightly choreographed tableaux.
Nov. 3, 2001
Parallels between self-described “marginal” New York filmmaker Hal Hartley and the unlikely poet Simon Grim of his new film “Henry Fool” are easy--right down to awards, with Hartley taking this year’s top screenplay honor at Cannes.
June 21, 1998
The Long Island in Hal Hartley’s “Trust” (selected theaters) is a bleak, grayed-out landscape peopled by blank, enraged oddballs.
Aug. 16, 1991