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
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).
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. [...]
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 [...]
