Amy Scott talks us through the career and impact of the 'Being There,' 'Harold and Maude' and 'Shampoo' filmmaker ...

Hal Ashby, turbulent genius of the '70s. News. ... The academy will then screen Ashby’s work at the Linwood Dunn Theater beginning with “The Landlord” and “Shampoo” on Friday and ...

Shark Pig. It’s not quite accurate to call Hal Ashby overlooked or underrated. After all, he did make some of the most revered films of the 1970s. In fact, he made seven of them in a nine-year ...

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In the eyes of many, Ashby was synonymous with the wild, woolly spirit of the '70s. "Hal Ashby is now largely forgotten because he had the misfortune to ... who had been a camera operator under DP ...

And it was Jewison who nudged Ashby toward becoming a director in the first place with his 1970 debut, The Landlord. Their letters back and forth provide some of the deepest insights and biggest ...

A look back on cinema of the 1970s wouldn’t be complete without considering the work of countercultural icon and filmmaking legend Hal Ashby.From 1970 to 1979, the notoriously bearded and shaggy ...

A key onscreen talking head is director Norman Jewison, Ashby’s friend and mentor, who gave his editor his first shot behind the camera with “The Landlord” (1970), a little-seen tale of a ...

By the time Hal Ashby made it to the director’s chair in 1970 after a stint as one of the most acclaimed film editors of the 1960s, he’d grown out his hair to a shaggy fullness more in keeping ...

Fans of New Hollywood are in for a treat this week with the long overdue DVD release (thanks to StudioCanal) of 1970’s sorely undervalued The Landlord, directed by the late, great Hal Ashby.Best known ...