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FAY GRIM
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Hal Hartley's sharply-witty sequel to Henry Fool finds Fay Grim (Parker Posey) struggling to keep her son, Ned (Liam Aiken), from heading down the same path as his writer-turned-fugitive father, Henry (Thomas Jay Ryan). Fay's tense situation worsens when a CIA agent (Jeff Goldblum) offers up her incarcerated brother Simon (James Urbaniak) in exchange for locating Henry's missing manuscripts. Globe-trotting acts of espionage follow, all too complicated to detail. "The dexterous literary voice is present in force, the performances tart and the use of high def among the best yet on a limited-budget bigscreen feature" (Variety). Hal Hartley---USA/Germany---2006---118 mins.
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GIRL FROM MONDAY
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Modern consumerism and government overreach are lampooned in this cheeky and imaginative sci-fi comedy that only Hal Hartley could have conceived. A beautiful space alien (Tatiana Abracos) lands in the New York City of the not-too-distant future, a world where Big Government and Big Business scratch each other's backs. Not surprisingly, a slick ad-man (Bill Sage) is the glue that holds this free market society together, but things take an unexpected turn when "The Girl From Monday" falls into his lap. "In Hal Hartley's world the pain blends with humor in a way that gives one a reason to believe in the complexity of life and the future of movies" (Time Magazine). Hal Hartley---USA---2005---84 mins.
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HENRY FOOL
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Both funny and troubling, Hal Hartley's Henry Fool addresses conflicts between friendship and opportunism and between self-expression and commerce. When an overbearing, unpublished writer moves in with an introverted garbage man and his mother and sister, momentous changes begin to occur. Henry boasts of the greatness of his work while carrying on with both women of the house and encouraging quiet Simon to write. But when Simon's verse makes him a celebrity, the nature of all their relationships changes and Henry's secrets begin to unravel. Thomas Jay Ryan, James Urbaniak and Parker Posey star. Winner for Best Screenplay at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival. Hal Hartley---USA---1997---137 mins.
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NO SUCH THING
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A monster movie from Hal Hartley? Perhaps, but the real monster isn't the ancient creature played by Robert John Burke. Hartley's film makes it clear that the truly fearsome beast is the modern day media. Sarah Polley plays a TV journalist who brings the immortal Icelandic beast back to New York, where the spotlight shines too brightly. Helen Mirren is Polley's ruthless boss and Julie Christie is a sympathetic doctor. Hartley's most unusual spin on Beauty and the Beast was also an unusual co-production, filmed partly in Iceland with the assistance of the Icelandic Film Corporation and producer Fridrik Thor Fridriksson (Devil's Island). Francis Ford Coppola served Hal Hartley---USA/Iceland---2001---103 mins.
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