In a time when much of American Independent Cinema falls on a spectrum with self-satisfied irony on one end and unabashed sentimentality on the other, David Gordon Green defies type. Orienting from the mantra “If I ever make anything clever, you can shoot me,” Green rose to prominence with emotio
Hal Hartley is an American film director, writer, and pioneer of the independent film movement, who was educated at the State University of New York at Purchase.
Though gently provocative and self-effacing, there had been evidence of a radicalized social engagement in Hartley’s earliest features