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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 n...

Rolling Stone Oscars 2021: Wolf Howls, Da Butt and the Chadwick Boseman Tribute That Wasn’t Rob Sheffield on the Oscars ceremony that let the speeches go long, the ‘Fatal Attraction’ star get her freak on — and forgot to actually, y’know, be the Oscars By AMPAS/ABC Lord, that was ugly. The most flamboyantly unplanned and half-assed Oscar Night in recent history was a grind from beginning to end, with the premise, “Just wait till the finale — you’ll see people clap and weep for Chadwick Boseman.” But that was simply one of the many plans that went wrong. It w...

Enter email address You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. The Oscars are this Sunday, bringing an end to an extended awards season like no other. Besides his predictions in all 23 categories, awards columnist Glenn Whipp wrote a piece about what to look for during the ceremony, such as just how much history will be made among the winners, the extremely competitive lead actress race and whether there will be joy in Husavik, Iceland. Advertisement The Spirit Awards were on Thursday, with “Nomadland” taking four prizes, “Sound of Metal” winn...

How Monte Hellman Beat the Devil: An Appreciation Steven Gaydos, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail 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.” More from Variety Decades before Jones’ astute assessment, film critic David Thomson had noted, “No system could digest the willful a...

How Monte Hellman Beat the Devil: An Appreciation Variety 2 hrs ago 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.” More from Variety Decades before Jones’ astute assessment, film critic David Thomson had noted, “No system could digest the willful arbitrariness of Monte Hellman...