Hal Ashby liked characters—especially characters who were characters. Empathy was Ashby's ace in the hole. In a 1978 Minneapolis Star interview, Ashby admitted he didn't socialize with the set ...

An indolent American princeling (Beau Bridges) purchases a dilapidated row house in a changing neighborhood, establishing a brief rapport with his hustling half-crazed tenants—and even learning ...

The veteran star of "The Landlord" and "The Fabulous Baker Boys" talks to IndieWire about his new film "Camera," returning to TV on the "Matlock" reboot, and how Hal Ashby taught him to turn a set ...

Materializing during the Kent State spring of 1970, with M*A*S*H in release and The Angel Levine, not to mention Where’s Poppa?, on the horizon, The Landlord—revived for a week at Film Forum in a new ...

Hal Ashby directed some of the most memorable films of the 1970s, including "Being There" and the cult classic "Harold and Maude." Yet his career also highlighted Hollywood's age-old tension between ...

In the long dream of American cinema, Hal Ashby occupies a strange and haunted room — off the hallway of the greats, cluttered with forgotten scripts, bong water and the heavy air of things once ...

Like Rodney Dangerfield, Ashby got no respect from his peers. And that fact is an overriding theme in “Hal,” Amy Scott’s long-overdue look back at a filmmaker who revolutionized the kind of ...