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Monte Hellman, the filmmaker behind movies like Two-Lane Blacktop, The Shooting, and Cockfighter, has died. He suffered a fall in his home on April 19, and died the next day. He was 93 years old. Variety brought word of Hellman’s death, and the outlet described the filmmaker as a “maverick” and a “cult” director. He was a beloved figure in many cinephile circles, who praised his rough-and-tumble style which kicked off in the late 1950s as he worked under the tutelage of prolific genre producer Roger Corman. Like so many other filmmakers of a certain era (including Martin Scorses...

Appreciating Director Monte Hellman's Two-Lane Blacktop In 1971, Hellman, who died Tuesday at the age of 91, made an odd little film starring James Taylor, Dennis Wilson, and Warren Oates, one that beautifully captured a moment in cars and the culture. Silver Screen Collection It's a movie about existentialism, self-creation, obsession, camaraderie, nihilism and a thousand other things. There's barely any dialog and it stars two musicians who don't play a single note. It's likely the only movie ever made that includes a scene where the main characters shop for GM QuadraJet carburetor parts...

How Monte Hellman Beat the Devil: An Appreciation Variety 3 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...

The Fast and the Furious, but it’s not supposed to be. The sometimes awkward dialogue and the less-than-stellar acting from two American pop-music icons can distract viewers. Even still, all of the gaffes make the movie feel somehow more genuine and raw. More important to some than capturing the American experience, Two-Lane Blacktop literally captures street racing of the early 1970s. Similar to how American Graffiti encapsulated car culture in the 1960s, Two-Lane Blacktop expertly, if not accidentally, paints a wholly accurate picture of the cars that dominated local streets and drag ...

Two-Lane Blacktop and Ride in the Whirlwind, died Tuesday at Eisenhower Medical Center in Palm Springs, California, after a fall in his home. His daughter, Melissa Hellman, confirmed his death to Hellman was well regarded for his genre films, such as his 1964 war drama Back Door to Hell, 1966’s pair of Westerns The Shooting and Two-Lane Blacktop starring James Taylor and Dennis Wilson. Born in New York City in 1932, Hellman relocated to Los Angeles with his family when he was five years old, and later got his start in the film and television business as an editor’s apprentice at ABC....