Influential director Monte Hellman, whose 1971 film Two-Lane Blacktop starring musicians James Taylor and Dennis Wilson became a counterculture cult classic, died Tuesday. He was 91. His death at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On the release of what was to be the late Monte Hellman’s final feature film in 2011, critic Steve Erickson noted “Monte Hellman ...

The late American indie film auteur Monte Hellman was fond of a quote from Jean Cocteau that poetically summed up the fate of any real work of art: “A work of art should also be ‘an object difficult ...

Whenever the name of the director Monte Hellman is mentioned, it is accompanied by the word “cult”. It is possible that Hellman, who has died aged 91, gained cult status because of his reputation as a ...

Four decades ago, a director named Monte Hellman made what many regard as the ultimate American road movie. Two-Lane Blacktop was an existential odyssey that set off for Washington DC only to blow it, ...

THAT the director Monte Hellman is at the Cannes Film Festival isn’t really a news flash. As the elder statesman of the idiosyncratic, independent and overlooked American filmmakers that the French ...

He also helmed 'The Shooting' and 'Ride in the Whirlwind,' two sparse Westerns starring a young Jack Nicholson. By Duane Byrge, Mike Barnes Monte Hellman, the maverick director and protege of Roger ...

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 ...