Where to Land
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Where to Land
2025 | NR | 75 min | DCP
Written and Directed by Hal Hartley
Hal Hartley (Henry Fool, Trust, Simple Men) has been one of the most original voices in American independent film since the late 1980s. His latest film, Where to Land, is one of his best, a lean, deadpan, sharply written film that feels semi-autobiographical. It is a touching farce about a successful director of romantic comedies approaching his senior years, who has been advised to write up his last will and testament. When he applies for a job as assistant groundskeeper in a cemetery, because he wants to work with his hands, his family, friends and neighbors misunderstand and assume he is dying, crowding into his apartment to express their last farewells and clumsily philosophize about the meaning of life.
“What a beautiful movie is Where to Land, crisp, brisk, wry–a comedy that’s taut yet discursive.”
With Bill Sage, Robert John Burke, Edie Falco, Katelyn Sparks, Kathleen Chalfant
Preceded by
Theory of Achievement
1991 | NR | 18 min | Digital
Written and directed by Hal Hartley
This delightful short film from early in Hartley’s career is about a group of friends self-described as “young, middle class, white, college educated, unskilled, broke, drunk.” An aspiring writer tries his hand at real estate, selling Brooklyn as the next great art capital of the world.