Almost (1990)
Romantic comedy that mixes magical realism with traditional Australian urban-outback contrasts. The plot centers on a bored woman (the eponymous Wendy) who conjures up the perfect lover, Jake, while her husband is out on the road suffering comical mishaps.
Director: Michael Pattinson
Actors: Bruce Spence, Douglas Hedge, Hugo Weaving, Kerry Walker, Rosanna Arquette
Theory of Achievement (1991)
This short film was packaged on video with Hartley’s featurette “Surviving Desire.” It affectionately examines the lives of a group of “young, middle-class, white, college-educated, unskilled, broke, drunk” Brookylnites who…
Paradise Drifters (2020)
A fragmented portrayal of three homeless young adults who are heading to southern Europe in search of money, love and happiness.
Romanzo criminale (2005)
The Lebanese has a dream: to conquer the underworld of Rome. To carry out this feat without precedent he puts together a ruthless and highly organized gang. Their progress and…
The Promised Land (2023)
Denmark, 1755. Captain Ludvig Kahlen sets out to conquer a Danish heath reputed to be uncultivable, with an impossible goal: to establish a colony in the name of the king,…
For My Brother (2014)
Happy Tears (2009)
Two sisters return home to care for their aging father.
Don’t Let Them Shoot the Kite (1989)
In Turkey, when a woman is sent to prison, her small children stay with her. In this film, Inci (say “Injee”) is sent to prison for murder in self-defense (which…
Cyber Seduction: His Secret Life (2005)
A high school kid (Sumpter) develops an addiction to Internet porn so intense that it begins to destroy his life and tear his family apart.