As a new HBO documentary about Shelly’s output is released, Josh Slater-Williams spotlights five of her key films
“I was going for a tone where you can find what’s funny in what’s painful, which has always been my kind of strategy anyway in life,” saysAn actor, screenwriter and director, Shelly broke through in the early 90s as the luminous lead of indie maverick Hal Hartley’s first two features:, which were key early texts in a wave of independent films that helped define the stylistic directions of a considerable number of American movies that decade.
Although Shelly never really crossed over as a star of studio movies , she was something of a perennial ‘It’ girl in late 90s American independent cinema, getting magazine shoots the documentary suggests she wasn’t entirely comfortable with. Transitioning to writing and directing, her most well-known film is likely, which was a Sundance darling and went on to be adapted into a Broadway and West End London show in recent years.
In light of the documentary’s aim to introduce the world to Shelly’s output, here are five key films of hers you should seek out – three she wrote and directed, and two in which she starred.Hal Hartley’s mischievous and witty debut comedy explores the disillusionment of the young generation in corporate America. Shelly is Audrey, a young woman obsessed with the threat of nuclear annihilation, who takes a shine to a mechanic now working for her grouchy father.
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