D.J. Mendel
Actor
D.J. Mendel is an American actor, playwright, screenwriter, and director. He has acted frequently in the films of director Hal Hartley.
Movies12
Movie6.4ComedyFantasyNew Year's Eve takes on new meaning when the Devil, Jesus Christ, and Christ's assistant Magdalena discuss and debate the End of the World.
The Book of Life
1998 · 41 votes
Movie4.2ActionComedyA comic drama about a time in the near future when citizens are happy to be property traded on the stock exchange.
The Girl from Monday
2005 · 19 votes
Movie5.6ActionComedyMany years after her notorious husband, Henry Fool, fled after killing a neighbor, Fay Grim receives a visit from CIA agent Fulbright, who tells her that Henry is dead, but that some of his journals have been unearthed in France. She sets forth on a globe-trotting odyssey that soon leads to the discovery that he is alive, and his journals are more than they appear to be.
Fay Grim
2007 · 88 votes
Movie6.0FantasyDramaA young journalist journeys to Iceland to find her missing fiancé only to encounter a mythical creature who longs to die.
No Such Thing
2002 · 69 votes
- MovieDocumentary
A series of impromptu interviews with Hal Hartley, Adrienne Shelly, and some of Hartley's other most frequent collaborators on his style, career, and process.
MovieDocumentary21 monologues written by American playwrights form a sort of fractured portrait of the American collective psyche. Ranging from the sad to the hilarious, from the angry to the tentatively celebratory, many of the major and recurrent issues associated with our fraught but beloved union are reconsidered with elegance, wit, brutal honesty, and a little outright insanity.
My America
2014
Movie9.0DramaA young doctor believes that the spirit of his late wife has possessed a troubled patient in his hospital.
The Cloud of Unknowing
2002 · 1 votes
Movie5.7This film is the visual component of the multi-media collaboration between the composer Louis Andriessen and Hal Hartley.
The New Math(s)
2001 · 3 votes
Movie6.1DramaMeanwhile concerns Joe Fulton, a man who can do anything from fixing your sink to arranging international financing for a construction project. He produces online advertising and he’s written a big fat novel. He’s also a pretty good drummer. But success eludes him. For Joe can’t keep himself from fixing other people’s problems. His own ambitions are constantly interrupted by his willingness and ability to go out of his way for others.
Meanwhile
2011 · 15 votes
- MovieHistoryDrama
Bounces through a fragmented, impressionistic history of the world from Napoleon to Jesus, from Socrates to Superman and back again with a six-year-old girl as our guide.
H.C.E.
2006
Movie5.7ComedyAn artist-criminal far from home asks his assistant to pirate a rare videotape before the German Post Office Authorities come to confiscate it.
Accomplice
2010 · 3 votes
MovieCrimeMixes found footage with the delirious, death-bed ramblings of the gangster Dutch Schultz, who died following a shooting in Newark, NJ in 1935.