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 celebrated movie, Hellman had only five full-length features credited to him.
Nevertheless, he was not idle for all that time. He taught film-making at the California Institute of the Arts, and worked on various projects for other people, some uncredited. For example, Hellman finished two pictures in post-production, the Muhammed Ali biopic The Greatest (1977) and Avalanche Express (1979), after the deaths of their directors, Tom Gries and Mark Robson respectively.
Zoom conversation to focus on Kenny Rivero s exhibit at BMAC
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.-Xavier Hufkens is presenting American artist Sayre Gomezs first exhibition with the gallery. Comprising a new series of large-format urban landscape paintings and three-dimensional works, the artist takes Los Angeles as the starting point for an expansive exploration of contemporary metropolitan life and the psychology of place.
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The title of the exhibition, True Crime, reflects one of the leitmotivs of the exhibition and a recurring theme in Gomezs oeuvre, namely the gap between fact and fiction and the notion of constructed realities. It references an immensely popular genre of literature, film and television that appears to be rooted in reality but tends to be meticulously scripted. The phenomenon is aptly summarised by the UCLA media scholar, Mark Seltzer: true crime is crime fact that looks like crime fiction, it marks, or irritates, the
A live Zoom conversation will focus on “Palm Oil, Rum, Honey, Yellow Flowers,” the first solo museum exhibition of Kenny Rivero, a Dominican-American artist and musician, now on view at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center.
On Thursday, April 29, at 7 p.m., the museum will present a conversation with Rivero, Charles Moffett, director of Charles Moffett Gallery, and Michael Jevon Demps, an artist and assistant professor at The Rhode Island School of Design. Registration is at brattleboromuseum.org.
The three will discuss Rivero’s exhibition, on view through June 13, as well as the commonalities between Rivero’s and Demps’ work. Rivero describes his drawings as autobiographical, with themes including masculinity, love, depression, sexuality, Afro-Caribbean faith, Anglo-Caribbean sensibilities and Afro-Futurism.
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On the release of what was to be the late Monte Hellman’s final feature film in 2011, critic Steve Erickson noted “Monte Hellman is the ultimate outlaw filmmaker.”
A decade earlier, filmmaker-critic Kent Jones wrote that “anything written in America about Monte Hellman … cinema’s most under-appreciated great director … must be a defense.”
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Decades before Jones’ astute assessment, film critic David Thomson had noted, “No system could digest the willful arbitrariness of Monte Hellman’s best films,” which is probably as clear an explanation of why Hellman made only one Hollywood Studio film in a directing career that stretched from 1959 to 2011 and included stints as Jack Nicholson’s filmmaking partner and Quentin Tarantino’s directorial debut enabler-producer.
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