Hal Hartley - No Such Thing (2002) (1 Viewer)

[swingkid]

hey
anybody ever seen it?
strange that it was never released here (or was it????)...
it's the only hal hartley film i've never seen...
sarah polley is in it too...

 

[krystal]

hey
anybody ever seen it?
strange that it was never released here (or was it????)...
it's the only hal hartley film i've never seen...
sarah polley is in it too...

no, never did. It's really hard to get hold of his stuff, so much of it seems to be deleted.

 

[swingkid]

actual i dont think i've seen surviving desire...
i've got nearly all of them on video if you want a loan

he's got a new one coming out soon called the girl from monday...

hal & sarah

 

[broken arm]

I haven't even got to see 'The Book of Life' yet.

 

[krystal]

actual i dont think i've seen surviving desire...
i've got nearly all of them on video if you want a loan

he's got a new one coming out soon called the girl from monday...

hal & sarah

oh thank you, I might take you up on that. You may feel free to borrow from my extensive collection of 80's teen flix starring molly ringwald and SATC dvd's.

 

[Goodbye]

hal hartly... 'mazin

 

[One of us]

Haven't seen Surviving Desire either. Got the script though- its in (I think) the first edition of that Projections journal that John Boorman had going a while back.

Projections ruled.

 

[swingkid]

oh thank you, I might take you up on that. You may feel free to borrow from my extensive collection of 80's teen flix starring molly ringwald and SATC dvd's.

yeah, cool, just let me know which ones you want...


80's teen flix's eh?
you got VOYAGE OF THE ROCK ALIENS?

Synopsis
When a bunch of ‘rocking’ aliens land in Speelburgh, Dee Dee doesn’t know which guy she’s gonna pick : her former boyfriend Frankie, who doesn’t want her to sing with his band, or Absid, the leader of the aliens.

 

[Anne OMalley]

Don't bother with the film - it's pretty brutal. Hartley on auto-pilot.

Haven't seen Surviving Desire either. Got the script though- its in (I think) the first edition of that Projections journal that John Boorman had going a while back.

Projections ruled.

 

[swingkid]

Don't bother with the film - it's pretty brutal. Hartley on auto-pilot.

No Such Thing or surviving desire?

 

[Anne OMalley]

I meant "Surviving Desire". Haven't seen "No Such Thing" or any of his more recent ones. I lost interest after "Flirt", which felt like a contractual obligation or a film school exercise.

"Trust" and "The Unbelievable Truth" felt great at the time, but if I'd seen more of Robert Bresson's films, I doubt I'd have been so impressed. In retrospect I think Hartley was, like Woody Allen at times, a bit too in love with European cinema for his own good.

No Such Thing or surviving desire?

 

[Goodbye]

In retrospect I think Hartley was, like Woody Allen at times, a bit too in love with European cinema for his own good.

Yeah... What they both need is a heafty dose of car chaces, big explosions, half naked tits... and less of all the talkin and shit...

 

[Anne OMalley]

I'd love it if Woody Allen made a film with no dialogue.

In about 5,000 years, human languages will have changed so much that will be impossible to distinguish what one character in a Woody Allen film is saying from what any of the others are saying. They'll all be saying the exact same thing.

I could tell you what that thing was if I didn't have to catch a bus right now.

 

[spectraljanitor]

I meant "Surviving Desire". Haven't seen "No Such Thing" or any of his more recent ones. I lost interest after "Flirt", which felt like a contractual obligation or a film school exercise.

"Trust" and "The Unbelievable Truth" felt great at the time, but if I'd seen more of Robert Bresson's films, I doubt I'd have been so impressed. In retrospect I think Hartley was, like Woody Allen at times, a bit too in love with European cinema for his own good.

i really liked henry fool when i saw it years ago.

his early stuff seems real stilted and flirt was just silly but pj harvey was in the book of life so mebbe its good and what of the film with sarah polley - any good?

 

[Goodbye]

I could tell you what that thing was if I didn't have to catch a bus right now.

you'll be back... I can wait... tum te tum