deus ex machina [translation]

At a loss recently, I poured my worthless meanderings into Dr. Sparkle's ear (eye?) with an email funnel:

I've been trying to rack my brain lately to come up with a director's name (or even just the name of one of his movies), but am having no luck. I'm hoping you might have some idea.

He's directed a few movies, all small productions, art house type films. I think he's Gen X, but not sure. I remember there's one actor who's been in two of his movies, but can't remember who that actor is.

Yeah, not much to go on, is it?

I had his work confused with Jim Jarmusch's for some reason; the one movie I remember seeing in the theatre in Seattle (so sometime between 1999 and 2002) was titled something like "Iron Will", or "Iron John", or something like that (but neither of those, since I've checked those titles). The story was of a kid who hooked up with a transient/wanderer and Learned Something About Life, maybe something to do with music/blues, too. The movies tend to be very light on plot, and a little challenging to understand.

Dang, no wonder I'm having so much trouble figuring it out, I can't even come up with solid details.

Anyway, any ideas/leads?

I think you're thinking of Hal Hartley and his film Henry Fool.

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