Hal Ashby

Hal Ashby’s ‘Shampoo’: The Brazen Comedy that Depicted the End of the Sixties’s Innocence

  By Sven Mikulec After saying saying farewell to the nation in a televized address, Richard Nixon handed in his…

7 years ago

Hal Ashby’s ‘Bound for Glory’: An Unorthodox Biopic Chock-Full Of Cinematic Beauty

The legendary American folk singer-songwriter Woodrow Wilson Guthrie was born in 1912, and in the 55 years of his life…

8 years ago

‘The Last Detail’: Hal Ashby and Robert Towne’s Slice of the ’70s America

  By Sven Mikulec It was Robert Towne, one of the greatest script doctors that Hollywood has ever seen, that…

8 years ago

Hal Ashby’s ‘Being There’ is one of the most delightful movies ever created

  By Sven Mikulec In 1979 the great American film director Hal Ashby made one of the most delightful movies…

9 years ago

“It was a genius director and it was a genius actress and a genius script… It was a blessing”

It all began as a thesis film for UCLA film student Colin Higgins who first developed the idea for Harold…

10 years ago