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 ...

Numerous landmark directors did remarkable work in Hollywood in the 1970s, but a convincing argument can be made that Hal Ashby and his films represented that decade at its best. As filmmaker ...

"He'd smoke some pot, and he would work all night." Oscilloscope Labs has unveiled an official full-length trailer for a documentary titled Hal, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier ...

Hal Ashby directing a string of acclaimed movies in the 1970s, scoring an Oscar nom for Coming Home, but he’s largely overshadowed by the filmmaking kings of the Me Decade. Now a new documentary turns ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

For a director who had one of the greatest cinematic runs in history, Hal Ashby really ought to be more of a household name. Certainly just as much of one as his New Hollywood peers from the ‘70s: ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After being introduced to Ashby through her friends in film school, Scott continued her career as an editor, and when she read the ...

“Harold and Maude,” “The Last Detail,” “Shampoo,” “Bound for Glory,” “Coming Home,” “Being There” — Hal Ashby’s run in the 1970s is as stellar as any director of his era. Less celebrated or even ...

Hal Ashby’s “The Last Detail” depicts humanity at its most generous and vital. Two Navy “lifers” Billy “Badass” Buddusky (Jack Nicholson in one of his all-time greatest performances) and Richard “Mule ...

Hal Ashby wouldn’t happen today. He and his films were indelible phenomena of the 1970s, no less than Watergate, WIN buttons, leisure suits and Farrah hair. Unlike the leisure suit and the hair, ...