Updated: On New Year’s Day, Deadline wrote about the plight of director Hal Hartley, who had till Saturday to raise $92,000 to be able to make his next film, Where To Land. He sought to raise the money through Kickstarter, which is how he has funded five previous modestly budget films. Well, he’s now six for six. Hartley’s film passed the $300,000 minimum threshold, with one day to spare. Good for Deadline readers, who surely helped his cause and start off the year knowing a worthy indie filmmaker is still in business.
Exclusive, January 1, 9:51 A.M.: Stalwart independent writer/director Hal Hartley’s next film has a ticking clock thriller mechanism built into it, even before he begins shooting a scene. Hartley, still going some 30 years after bursting on the scene with a bunch of other maverick moviemakers in the indie heyday of the 1990s, needs about...
Exclusive, January 1, 9:51 A.M.: Stalwart independent writer/director Hal Hartley’s next film has a ticking clock thriller mechanism built into it, even before he begins shooting a scene. Hartley, still going some 30 years after bursting on the scene with a bunch of other maverick moviemakers in the indie heyday of the 1990s, needs about...
- 1/3/2020
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Independent movie maverick Hal Hartley is once again turning to grassroots fundraising for his next film project, “Where to Land.” Hartley is currently seeking $300,000 on Kickstarter to fund the production, which will be anchored by Edie Falco in the lead, and the filmmaker and his team at Possible Films have until Saturday, January 4 to reach the goal. At the time of publication, he’s reached $266,440, which means he $33,560 to go. The film will also star Bill Sage, Tatiana Abracos, Robert Burke, Jade Golden, Aida Johannes, Elina Löwensohn, DJ Mendel, Parker Posey, and Jay Thomas.
The film tells the story of a 58-year-old director of romantic comedies (not unlike 60-year-old filmmaker Hartley himself) looking back on his life, and looking to become the assistant groundskeeper at a local cemetery. Hartley, whose oeuvre includes quirky, offbeat character studies like “Trust” and “Fay Grim,” has always worked on a smaller scale.
Hartley recently...
The film tells the story of a 58-year-old director of romantic comedies (not unlike 60-year-old filmmaker Hartley himself) looking back on his life, and looking to become the assistant groundskeeper at a local cemetery. Hartley, whose oeuvre includes quirky, offbeat character studies like “Trust” and “Fay Grim,” has always worked on a smaller scale.
Hartley recently...
- 1/2/2020
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
PARK CITY -- Hal Hartley is in rare form, namely he's made a movie with a discernible narrative form. Unfortunately, it's a tired, generic assemblage of sci-fi components. Hartley fans might be disappointed, but "The Girl From Monday" is likely to be accessible to genre geeks and could fly as a sci-fi cable offering.
Admittedly, Hartley has selected some winning generic components from the sci-fi story kit: the innocent alien who visits Earth, the nasty conglomerate that enslaves the people, the rebel who goes against the system and the sheeplike conformity of the masses.
And, natch, it all takes place after the "Great Revolution".
Still, there is some saucy social satire wired beneath the story line, namely an astute if not entirely original treatise on the omnipotence of advertising. This grave new world is a sterile hellhole where a giant ad agency rules and the populace is brainwashed into consumerism via sex. Sound like anyplace we know? Still, Hartley adds a dollop of originality, combining sexual activity with raising one's credit rating. Unfortunately, nothing much else deviates from standard-issue sci-fi storytelling.
Hartley's most inspirational idea is to cast the alien with one of the world's most gorgeous women (Tatiana Abracos) rather than some rubber-faced or pointy-eared varmint. While it's hard to denigrate the aesthetic viability of an opus that opens with this alien swimming nude in crystalline blue waters, that's about where Hartley's high aesthetics ends.
Thankfully, there are few mechanical gizmos or weird costumes to clutter up the bald narrative, though that may well reflect a minuscule budget.
The acting is superior to the story, highlighted by Bill Sage's conflicted performance as an advertiser who feels remorse for what he has created. Sabrina Lloyd invigorates her rebel character with a feral sexuality, while Abracos is well-selected for such a buff performance.
The Girl From Monday
Possible Films and Mad Mad Judy Present
A Monday Co. production
Credits:
Producers: Hal Hartley, Steve Hamilton
Screenwriter-director: Hal Hartley
Associate producer: Lisa Porter
Director of photography: Sarah Cawley-Cabiya
Sound designer: Justin Kawashima
Music: Hal Hartley
Costume designer: Virginia Cook
Art director: Inbal Weinberg
Cast:
Cecile: Sabrina Lloyd
Jack Bell: Bill Sage
William: Leo Fitzpatrick
The Girl From Monday: Tatiana Abracos
No MPAA rating
Running time -- 84 minutes...
Admittedly, Hartley has selected some winning generic components from the sci-fi story kit: the innocent alien who visits Earth, the nasty conglomerate that enslaves the people, the rebel who goes against the system and the sheeplike conformity of the masses.
And, natch, it all takes place after the "Great Revolution".
Still, there is some saucy social satire wired beneath the story line, namely an astute if not entirely original treatise on the omnipotence of advertising. This grave new world is a sterile hellhole where a giant ad agency rules and the populace is brainwashed into consumerism via sex. Sound like anyplace we know? Still, Hartley adds a dollop of originality, combining sexual activity with raising one's credit rating. Unfortunately, nothing much else deviates from standard-issue sci-fi storytelling.
Hartley's most inspirational idea is to cast the alien with one of the world's most gorgeous women (Tatiana Abracos) rather than some rubber-faced or pointy-eared varmint. While it's hard to denigrate the aesthetic viability of an opus that opens with this alien swimming nude in crystalline blue waters, that's about where Hartley's high aesthetics ends.
Thankfully, there are few mechanical gizmos or weird costumes to clutter up the bald narrative, though that may well reflect a minuscule budget.
The acting is superior to the story, highlighted by Bill Sage's conflicted performance as an advertiser who feels remorse for what he has created. Sabrina Lloyd invigorates her rebel character with a feral sexuality, while Abracos is well-selected for such a buff performance.
The Girl From Monday
Possible Films and Mad Mad Judy Present
A Monday Co. production
Credits:
Producers: Hal Hartley, Steve Hamilton
Screenwriter-director: Hal Hartley
Associate producer: Lisa Porter
Director of photography: Sarah Cawley-Cabiya
Sound designer: Justin Kawashima
Music: Hal Hartley
Costume designer: Virginia Cook
Art director: Inbal Weinberg
Cast:
Cecile: Sabrina Lloyd
Jack Bell: Bill Sage
William: Leo Fitzpatrick
The Girl From Monday: Tatiana Abracos
No MPAA rating
Running time -- 84 minutes...
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