Early Hartley honors director’s ‘Where to Land,’ scare season creeps in with ‘Sinners’ and ‘Fog’

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To celebrate the local premiere of “Where to Land ” (2025), the new film by Hal Hartley, The Brattle Theatre presents three of the director’s most celebrated works. Though perhaps less well known today than such contemporaries as Richard Linklater or Steven Soderbergh, Hartley was just as important a figure in the indie film boom of the late ’80s and ’90s, his arch, deadpan comedies essential texts of Gen X cool. Hartley made his name with the so-called “Long Island Trilogy” – “The Unbelievable Truth” (1988), “Trust” (1990) and “Simple Men” (1992) – all of which screen in a triple feature Thursday (of particular note for format geeks is “Trust,” which scree