Meanwhile US Premiere
Wednesday, February 29 at 8pm
IFC Center, 323 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY
Hal Hartley in person
Meanwhile Kickstarter Video #5
Music
Hal, editor Kyle Gilman, and star D.J. Mendel discuss the music in Meanwhile and Hal’s composing process.
Meanwhile Kickstarter Video #4
Editing.
Editor Kyle Gilman talks about the production workflow of Meanwhile and the newer ways to watch movies.
Meanwhile Kickstarter Video #3
The Women. A brief chat with the three main actresses in Meanwhile about their relationships with Joe Fulton.
Meanwhile Kickstarter Update #2
Hal Hartley’s MEANWHILE Kickstarter Update Video #2 is about lead actor DJ Mendel, his character Joe Fulton, and his current one man show, Dick Done Broke, about a messed up steel worker named Donny.
Meanwhile Video 1: Locations
MEANWHILE is 67% financed in the Kickstarter Campaign. Thanks for all of the support. Here is the first in a series of little excerpts from the making-of documentary that will accompany Meanwhile on the DVD.
Meanwhile Kickstarter
Dear Everybody,
Today I launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise $40,000 to release a limited edition DVD of my new film, MEANWHILE.
True Fiction Pictures (Echostatic #107) — Autographed CD (1998)
This was the 1998 “re-release” by Echostatic Records of the original 1993 CD. This all paper fold-out presentation has the same artwork as the original jewel-box release but tinted blue. Forty untouched units are available autographed by Hal Hartley (on the back of the inside sleeve).
Many thanks to Janet Ridgeway of Echostatic Records for making these available!
Henry Fool Soundtrack CD (1998)
HENRY FOOL Original Soundtrack Album (CD) signed and numbered!!!
Who listens to CDs anymore anyway? Exactly. But they were really cool objects, especially when designed like miniature album covers for traditional vinyl records. We’ve got 100 original copies of these CDs autographed and numbered by Hal.
The Heart is a Muscle
The Swedish publisher Libraryman has produced a large format picture book of images from Hal’s films titled The Heart is a Muscle and designed by Tony Cederteg. Available January 2011 from Libraryman, and coming soon to the Possible Films store.
Holiday Sale
December 6–12, all items in the Possible Films store are 20% off. We are the exclusive retailers of the new 20th Anniversary Edition DVD of The Unbelievable Truth, and the book of Hal’s play Soon, along with soundtracks to most of Hal’s films. And starting today, The Book of Life soundtrack album is available for download. It features songs from P.J. Harvey, David Byrne, and Yo La Tengo.
The Unbelievable Truth 20th Anniversary DVD (2010)
It’s been 20 years since the theatrical release of The Unbelievable Truth, in which Hal introduced audiences to the talents of Adrienne Shelly, Edie Falco, and Robert John Burke.
We’ve released a 20th Anniversary Edition DVD with lots of pictures and a never-before-seen doc which includes interviews with Hal and Adrienne Shelly (as far as we know, the only footage of them interviewed together) as well as Robert, Martin Donovan, and Thomas Jay Ryan. It is available exclusively on our website.
Soon, Music from the Play (2010)
Driven by music and choreography, Soon is a play first performed in Europe in 1998 and then again in the US in 2001. The music is available for the first time, recently re-worked into a compelling weave of brief spoken-word segments and songs constructed from the dialogues. Complete selection available to download from possiblefilms.com now. Individual tracks available everywhere else.
SOON, a play (2010)
Available for the first time: the definitive version of Hal Hartley’s only play to date which was staged in Europe in 1998 and California in 2001. With an introduction by the author.
Hilarious, moving, and sociologically astute, SOON “touched a naked nerve in contemporary American sensibility” (Western European Stages).
PF2: Possible Films vol. 2 (2010)
Available now on DVD from Microcinema International & Digital Download from our website, Possible Films 2 comprises five new short films by Hal Hartley made when he was living and working in Europe.
“Exploring small ideas that couldn’t be fleshed out in feature form, Hartley creates intimate works that are honest and feel like they’re done by an artist doing it for the love of the craft, not looking for a quick buck. But would we think anything less from Hartley?” —Filmmaker Magazine
Old & New Hartley @ IFC Center, NYC
IFC Center in New York City (323 Ave of the Americas @ West 3rd) will present a two evening event with Hal, screening his 1991 film, Surviving Desire, on the 21st and his newest collection of short films, Possible Films 2, on the 22nd. Both programs start at 8:30pm. Hal will be introducing each program.
Surviving Desire, Remaster (2010)
Available as a download from our website, and on DVD from Microcinema International.
Newly digitally re-mastered with color correction supervised by the director, this early Hartley favorite stars Martin Donovan, Mary Ward, Matt Malloy, and Rebecca Nelson.
Amateur Soundtrack (1994)
Original score by Hal (AKA Ned Rifle) & Jeffrey Taylor
with songs by My Bloody Valentine, Pavement, P.J. Harvey, Yo La Tengo, and others!
No Such Thing (As Monsters) (2010)
The complete original music from the 2001 film.
Available for the first time ever, exclusively as a digital download from possiblefilms.com
TRUE FICTION PICTURES
MUSIC FROM THE FILMS OF HAL HARTLEY (1993). Available January 5 as a digital download here at possiblefilms.com. Featuring tracks from Yo La Tengo, Phylr, The Great Outdoors, and The Brothers Kendall.
The Ryful Album (2009)
In 1995 Hal Hartley invited three musician friends from drastically different quarters of the contemporary rock scene to collaborate with him on some songs. For about a month they were a band called Ryful—a play on Hartley’s film-scoring pseudonym, “Ned Rifle.”
“PF2″ Premiere in Leon, Spain
On December 1 Possible Films volume 2, or “PF2″, a collection of Hal Hartley’s most recent short films, began a month-long retrospective of his work at the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y Leon, Spain.
PF2, Recent Short Films by Hal Hartley
To be released on DVD worldwide by Microcinema International in April 2010. Also to be available as a download here at Possible Films.
True Fiction Pictures & Possible Films
True Fiction Pictures & Possible Films – Hal Hartley in conversation with Kenneth Kaleta was published in October 2008 in English by Soft Skull Press/Counterpoint. The book, which appeared originally in Polish in 2007, is a series of discussions Hartley had with film writer and educator, Kenneth Kaleta, throughout 1999 and then again in 2005. [...]
