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Mark L. Berrettini
Examining a director whose work shrewdly eschews cinematic realism
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Sebastian Manley
One of the most significant contributors to the American independent cinema that developed over the late 1980s and 1990s, Hal Hartley has throughout his career created films that defy convention…
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Steven Rawle (York St John University)
Hal Hartley was one of the leading lights of the independent American cinema boom of the late 1980s and 1990s. Although his work never achieved the kind of crossover commercial…
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Featuring new essays on this important director and his films, this collection explores Hartley’s work from a variety of aesthetic, cultural, and economic contexts, while also looking closely at his…
Hal Hartley
Union high steel ironworker, Jim Fulton, tries to raise his four children after the death of his wife. Though he’s grateful for the help of his loving but contentious relatives…
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…
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.
An aging film director has his will made up and finds a job as assistant gardener in a cemetery. His highly dramatic girlfriend, his family, friends, and neighbors all assume…
A beautiful but troubled insurance adjuster who believes she has psychic powers she cannot control enters a Catholic convent run by beer brewing nuns for three months to protect society…
Acts is a modernist and often hilarious retelling of the adventures of Saint Paul as told in The Acts of the Apostles, the fifth book of the Christian New Testament…
Charles M. Schulz
In The Complete Peanuts 1965-66: in the mid-1960s, Snoopy has become the strip’s dominant personality.
