Chad Hartigan

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Favorite films

  • Hunger
  • A Swedish Love Story
  • Two for the Road
  • Broadcast News

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  • The Brutalist

  • The Windblown Hare

  • Your Friend, Nate Bargatze

  • The Sugarland Express

    ★★★★½

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  • Daughters

    Daughters

    Finally, some positive Chad representation on screen.

  • The Order

    The Order

    One of those cases where the actors gave good performances (especially Law), the director made tasteful decisions, the craftspeople all did fine work, and everyone probably felt good and proud at the end of each day, but when they put it all together there was absolutely no pulse. Kind of the nightmare scenario when you're making a movie, to be honest. Needing that tiny extra sprinkle of magic movie dust and it just never comes.

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  • Little Fish

    Little Fish

    Hey! I directed this movie. We shot it in the Spring of 2019 and had hoped to play at film festivals and get released in 2020 but a pandemic happened and changed everything. For a while, we weren't sure if we could release the movie at all. It was all of a sudden something completely different than we ever intended it to be now that the world was actually experiencing what was meant to be science fiction in our film.…

  • The Lives of Others

    The Lives of Others

    ★★

    True story:

    When this film first came out, I was in a long distance relationship and we decided to see showings of it at the same time in our separate cities as a "movie date" and call each other after to talk. I hated the film so much, I walked out after 40 minutes and patiently waited another hour before calling. When I did, my girlfriend answered the phone sobbing, having been completely emotionally shattered by it. In fact, she…