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
Release Date: March 2, 2010
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. [...]
La Commedia Premiere
Louis Andriessen’s La Commedia, staged by Hal Hartley, premiered on June 12, 2008 in Amsterdam. The Los Angeles Times called “this profoundly moving, if slyly unsentimental, meditation on life, love and death a great opera.”
New Horizons Festival
In July, 2007, the most comprehensive retrospective to date of Hal Hartley’s work was undertaken by the ERA New Horizons Festival in Wroclaw, Poland (www.eranowehoryzonty.pl).
Two books appeared in Polish to coincide with the occasion; one a series of essays by noted Polish film critics published by the festival, and the other the lushly illustrated [...]
