Hal Hartley - Possible Films
by Hal Hartley
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DVD Cover Information
Actor: Possible Films-Hal HartleyDirector: Hal Hartley
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 100 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-01-01
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Microcinema
Movie Reviews of Hal Hartley - Possible Films
Movie Review: Essential for Hartley fans
Summary: 4 Stars
Hal Hartley is smart enough to use the short-film form to experiment and express his least commercial ideas (not that his features have set box-office records, but whatever) -- instead of to just make short stories.
Because of this experimentation, some of the shorts are abstracted to the point of incomprehensibility... and not in a good way.
The highlights are the martial arts-modern dance fugue thriller THE NEW MATH(S); THE SISTERS OF MERCY, a kind of making-of of an otherwise nonexistant movie (which begs the question whether the outtakes seemed more interesting than the intended footage, or whether SISTERS OF MERCY was always intended as a deconstructionist piece); and the excerpted play SOON, which -- unlike many of the shorts -- has some of Hartley's fine wordplay and some intriguing acting.
Quite different from most of his features, but also with an innate familiar quality that could belong to only one filmmaker.