Hal Hartley
American film director and screenwriterWikipedia
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Search complete. 10 mentions across 3 episodes found for "Hal Hartley".
Sep 18, 2026
Episode 144: That Obscure Object of Desire + Happy Birthday To Me
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9:43Rob SpencerHOST
Okay.
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9:43Rob SpencerHOST
So this is not the Hal Hartley film.
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9:45Joe OdberHOST
This is not Hal Hartley's Trust.
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9:47Joe OdberHOST
I like Hal Hartley's Trust.
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9:48Joe OdberHOST
Good.
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9:49Joe OdberHOST
Good.
Kafka, Schizopolis, and Sex, Lies, and Videotape. Three by Steven Soderbergh
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33:43Colin TaitGUEST
Yeah.
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33:44Jason WisemanHOST
i i when we did the sex lies and videotape uh screening i mentioned at the end that how hartley was getting out of the uh you know selling murder well he was basically getting like he'd gotten gone through all of his physical releases um that he had put together and curated himself and like and so like everything on his site was discounted but think but and i was very disappointed because i bought a henry fool trilogy and it was pal it was like a um So I had to use a region free player.
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34:12Jason WisemanHOST
But the guy, like his like office guy, like emailed me and was like, Hey man, I'm really sorry, but we, we don't have these two things.
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34:19Jason WisemanHOST
And I'm like, well, and then one of them was the Long Island trilogy.
IDIOTS co-writer/director Macon Blair
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17:56Macon BlairGUEST
You let me know.
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17:57Josh OlsonHOST
But, uh, [laughs] but oh my God, and I think this is the one where I first discovered Hal Hartley too, but, uh, Trust.
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18:04Macon BlairGUEST
Me too.
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18:05Josh OlsonHOST
'Cause, you know, you never know when you might need a hand grenade.
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19:04Josh OlsonHOST
... out of his mind, really dangerous, bad news, but you just, you love him instantly.
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19:08Macon BlairGUEST
Y- y- you love him and, and a lot of that is, like, he's got this kind of abusive father and, and so th- they're, they're both misfits, and they form this friendship that's never exactly a love story, but it's a, there's, there's, like, a, a common closeness that they rely on each other, and it's, it's very, um...
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19:27Macon BlairGUEST
Hal Hartley has this very kind of sparse sort of, um...
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19:32Macon BlairGUEST
Some people say cold, but I don't think so at all.