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Drifters.(Movie review)
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Near the start of "Fay Grim," the heroine of the title (Parker Posey) is asked out to dinner by Angus (Chuck Montgomery), a publisher with a grave manner and a Biblical beard. Fay is taken aback. "You mean, like a date?" she asks. "I'm afraid so," Angus replies. He sounds like a man reporting a death. If you missed the opening credits, and thus the name of the director, this single exchange would put you right: here is a film by Hal Hartley. For moviegoers in the early nineteen-nineties, especially those enthused by the rise of independent cinema, Hartley was the man to watch. This was due in part to the oblique ...
- So where in the world is Hal Hartley?: The filmmaker has gone from LI to Berlin...
- Newspaper article from: Newsday (Melville, NY) May 18, 2007 700+ words
...peak with 1997's "Henry Fool," a shaggy-dog...winning poet. "Fay Grim" picks up where "Henry Fool" left off, with...critics, believes "Henry Fool" to be Hartley...nonetheless believes "Fay Grim" to be "dazzlingly...
- 'Fay Grim'.(Movie review)
- Newspaper article from: Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA) Rea, Steven May 17, 2007 700+ words
...around. But where "Henry Fool" was a resonant...and politics, "Fay Grim" is just a throwaway...great characters _ Henry Fool (Thomas Jay Ryan...hour, 58 mins. Fay Grim/Parker Posey...James Urbaniak Henry Fool/Thomas Jay Ryan...
- Screwball spy flick 'Fay Grim' is funny-peculiar.
- Newspaper article from: San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, CA) May 18, 2007 700+ words
...sequels, which would make "Fay Grim" an oddity even if it weren...up to the 1998 indie charmer "Henry Fool," "Fay Grim" is a farce in which people...to be. That goes double for Fay Grim, played by the first lady of...
- San Jose Mercury News, Calif., Bruce Newman column: Screwball spy flick `Fay...
- Newspaper article from: San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, CA) May 17, 2007 700+ words
...sequels, which would make "Fay Grim" an oddity even if it weren...up to the 1998 indie charmer "Henry Fool," "Fay Grim" is a farce in which people...to be. That goes double for Fay Grim, played by the first lady of...
- Fay Grim.(Brief article)(Video recording review)
- Magazine article from: Video Business Grant, Ed April 23, 2007 700+ words
...returns in full effect in this sequel to his 1997 film Henry Fool . In Fay Grim , Parker Posey takes center stage as Henry's widow...films of Christopher Guest and Richard Linklater. Fay Grim will bow theatrically in 17 cities across the country...
- As sequel, 'Fay Grim' doesn't exactly track.(Movie review)
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) May 18, 2007 700+ words
...Hal Hartley's "Fay Grim" -- the austere...regarded movie, "Henry Fool" -- strikes me...Claude) Chabrol. "Fay Grim" probably works...haven't seen "Henry Fool." If you put the...Japanese wife, and "Fay Grim" often feels like...
- Fay Grim.(Movie review)
- Magazine article from: Daily Variety McCarthy, Todd September 28, 2006 700+ words
...Chuck Montgomery Henry Fool Thomas Jay Ryan...mojo back in "Fay Grim," an eight...his best film, "Henry Fool." The dexterous...at the end of "Henry Fool" essentially invite it. The neurotic Fay Grim was left with a...
- 'Henry Fool' sequel a spy lark.(Movie review)
- Newspaper article from: Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA) Rea, Steven May 18, 2007 700+ words
...around. But where Henry Fool was a resonant...and politics, Fay Grim is just a throwaway...characters -- Henry Fool (Thomas Jay Ryan...hour, 58 mins. Fay Grim...James Urbaniak Henry Fool. . . Thomas Jay...