Jacqueline Ebeier News Today

Monte Hellman obituary Ronald Bergan © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Landmark Media/Alamy Whenever the name of the director Monte Hellman is mentioned, it is accompanied by the word “cult”. It is possible that Hellman, who has died aged 91, gained cult status because of his reputation as a maverick, like his favourite actors Jack Nicholson and Warren Oates, and because his films were so few and far between. After Two-Lane Blacktop (1971), his most accomplished and ...