Hal Hartley

Our Lady of the Highway

The Heart is a Muscle

Pacôme Thiellement

Jean-Christophe Hj Martin

Mathieu Germain

Justine Gasquet

Jean-François Fontanel

Bertrand Mandico

Jérôme Sullerot

Xanaé Bove

Alexandrine Dhainaut

Dimitris Daskas

Laurence Brisset

Leïla Morouche

Hal Hartley est un réalisateur américain dont la place et la trajectoire au sein du cinéma contemporain sont uniques. Uniques par leur style, leur force et leur originalité. Uniques, car il aura marqué toute une génération de cinéphiles durant les années 90 avant de s’engager dans une voie toujours plus indépendante et à contre-courant de son époque, au risque de disparaître du système. Aujourd’hui plus farouchement indépendant que jamais, Hartley écrit, finance, réalise et distribue des œuvres toujours plus exigeantes et qui ne ressemblent à aucune autre. Cet ouvrage collectif a pour vocation de revenir sur ce que Hal Hartley a signifié et signifie encore et toujours pour une certaine génération de cinéphiles. Les textes présentés ici – récits, essais, collections de souvenirs, nouvelles – n’ont aucune prétention critique et ne visent qu’à exprimer la passion de leurs auteurs pour un cinéma à part, qui marque sa différence. Ils sont précédés d’une première partie où sont présentés certains des textes et interviews de Hal Hartley (dont un entretien avec Jean-Luc Godard) et d’entretiens exclusifs avec deux de ses acteurs fétiches, Elina Löwensohn et Martin Donovan. Pris dans leur ensemble, ces textes dressent le portrait d’un artiste hors du commun et invitent à le redécouvrir. Filmographie (non-exhaustive) : The Unbelievable Truth (1989), Trust (1990), Theory of Achievement (1991), Ambition (1991), Surviving Desire (1992), Simple Men (1992), Amateur (1994), Flirt (1995), Henry Fool (1997), The Book of Life (1998), No Such Thing (2001), The Girl from Monday (2005), Fay Grim (2006), Ned Rifle (2014). Auteurs : Alexandrine Dhainaut, Jean-Christophe HJ Martin, Jérôme d’Estais, Justine Gasquet, Pacôme Thiellement, Jean-François Fontanel, Bertrand Mandico, Jérôme Sullerot, Xanaé Bove, Dimitris Daskas, Laurence Brisset, Leïla Morouche, Mathieu Germain. Traductions de Mathieu Germain ---------- La série de textes de ce recueil vise précisément à combler ce vide bibliographique, à rendre hommage à celui qui a profondément marqué les esprits avec ses films hors du commun et à rappeler qu’il n’a jamais cessé de produire des œuvres toujours plus exigeantes, dans la liberté la plus totale. Ces textes ne sont ni des études, ni des analyses, et ils n’ont aucune prétention universitaire ou critique. Ce sont des cris du cœur émanant d’artistes, d’auteurs ou de simples admirateurs qui n’ont jamais oublié ce que le cinéma de Hal Hartley leur a apporté.

A film director wants nothing more than a part-time job as assistant gardener in a cemetery, but is enticed back into show business by younger, aspiring professionals, one of whom is his girlfriend.

And Other Screenplays

Where To Land

A screenplay set in an apparently settled suburban American community whose underlying tensions come bursting to the surface with the arrival of a stranger. Henry Fool insinuates himself into the family of a garbage man named Simon, and changes their lives irrevocably.

Henry Fool

Hal Hartley’s comedies and explorations of mismatched love and misplaced trust have been provocative must-sees for the past two decades with critics and audiences alike. Given the range and depth of his interests, along with the decidedly rigorous pursuit of a deeply felt aesthetic, his films are as difficult to classify as they are easy to recognize—and they have been widely recognized as a singular achievement in American filmmaking. In this book of interviews conducted by professor and film writer Kenneth C. Kaleta, Hartley reflects on the evolution of his filmmaking, elaborating on the forces that help shape it and the ways in which his aspirations develop as time goes on—revealing a good deal of what it is to be an independent creative artist in a relentlessly commercial culture. Exquisitely designed, with numerous full-color photographs and a complete illustrated filmography, True Fiction Pictures and Possible Films is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in Hartley’s filmmaking in particular, and motion pictures in general.

True Fiction Pictures and Possible Films

The third volume of the collected screenplays of Hal Hartley brings together two scripts that are essential to Hartley's dynamic evolution in the mid 1990s.

Two Screenplays

Amateur and Flirt

Flirt is a simple story of love and loss told three times in three different cities. The first story is set in New York. The subsequent two - set in Berlin and Tokyo - seemingly use the same situations and dialogue, but by subtle shifts of emphasis the film evolves from the turbulence of America to the benign calm of Japan. The crisis in each story is precipitated by the indecisiveness of the main character; his or her need for reassurance that their love will hold steadfast - that there is a future for their love - leads them to flirt with disaster. This volume also contains an extended prose piece in which Hal Hartley discusses his work.

Flirt

Acts: A Screenplay

When his wife dies young, hot tempered Ironworker Jim Fulton is left with four children and a neighborhood of relatives willing to help raise them. Though loved and respected, Jim struggles with his favorite son's growing radicalism and resistance to racial injustice.

A Screenplay

Motherless Children

For over a decade, Hal Hartley's deadpan comedies and explorations of unlikely relationships of love and trust have been favorites with critics and indie film crowds alike. Gathered here in one volume for the first time are the screenplays for three of his most acclaimed films: The Unbelievable Truth, in which a young man returns home after serving time for murder; Trust, which follows a pregnant teen and the effect of her condition on her family; and Simple Men -- the film that first brought him widespread prominence -- in which two brothers go in search of their anarchist father. For over a decade, Hal Hartley's deadpan comedies and explorations of unlikely relationships of love and trust have been favorites with critics and indie film crowds alike. Gathered here in one volume for the first time are the screenplays for three of his most acclaimed films: The Unbelievable Truth, in which a young man returns home after serving time for murder; Trust, which follows a pregnant teen and the effect of her condition on her family; and Simple Men -- the film that first brought him widespread prominence -- in which two brothers go in search of their anarchist father.

Collected Screenplays

Graham Fuller

Simple Men tells the story of two brothers, thrown together in search of their father. The pair confront their expectations of themselves and their attitudes towards women. It was premiered as part of the Official Competition at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival.

Simple Men ; Trust

Tells the story of a woman who claims to have had a visit from the Virgin Mary. She believes she is intended to intervene in the destiny of a young and troubled porn star and the handsome amnesiac she's met in the street is somehow involved.

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