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Hal Hartley Kickstarts Where To Land

26.12.2019 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog , 0 Comments

Hal Hartley has been a great inspiration to me for many, many years. He is a true cinema artist, and, I believe, one of the most important contemporary American filmmakers. It gave me enormous pleasure then, to become a backer of his latest feature film, Where...

Hal Hartley’s Ned Rifle On Vimeo

14.03.2015 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog , 26 Comments

"In the closing chapter of director Hal Hartley’s trilogy about the fractured Grim family, young son Ned (Liam Aiken) embarks on a quest to kill his father for wrecking his mom's life. But a winsome graduate student (Aubrey Plaza) interferes with his plan." Hal Hartley's new...

Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog: Trailer For Hal Hartley’s Ned Rifle…

06.02.2015 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog , 0 Comments

https://vimeo.com/118543551 Ned Rifle is the conclusion to Hartley's trilogy which started with Henry Fool then continued with Fay Grim. I actually backed Ned Rifle on Kickstarter, and wrote a blogpost on why I did. Anyway, the trailer looks terrific and I cannot wait to see the finished film....

First Trailer For Hal Hartley’s Ned Rifle

22.07.2014 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog , 0 Comments

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=vNKU8Jf3eEA I backed Hal Hartley's new film, Ned Rifle, on Kickstarter. Glad I did because the first trailer looks really wonderful. I wrote about Hal Hartley, here....

The Great Acting Blog: “Don’t Waste Good Acting Years – Shoot A Picture”

15.01.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

There are too many actors out there letting good acting years drift by, there are too many actors with frustrated ambition, there are too many actors who quit due to lack of opportunity. There are too many actors chasing after work they don't really want....

Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog: “Is Crowdfunding Destroying The Magic Of Cinema?”

03.12.2013 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog , 22 Comments

I would say Hal Hartley is among my top twenty heroes in cinema. As a viewer, his films are just what I want to see; intelligent, witty, insightful, literate, with precise visual compositions and gentle rythms. The comedy is often subversive with subtle irony, and...

The Great Acting Blog: “The Acting Style Of Phone Box Gun”

02.05.2012 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Phone Box Gun, my new short film, will be a minimalist heist movie, which I intend to shoot in black and white. It's about a young man, Vincent, who needs cash in order to visit his long lost sister in Mexico, and so, under the...

The Great Acting Blog: “A Beautiful Object”

14.03.2012 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

“I get impatient when I hear dialogue that's just too natural. I write what people would really say and then I artificialize just enough so it becomes a beautiful object”. - Hal Hartley For anyone not familiar with Hartley's work, the dialogue is ...

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