Jon Busch will be enshrined in the Aspen Hall of Fame at a ceremony next month, but in December you can see the local legend and film presenter hosting and working the projector during his film series ...
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 ...
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 ...
There are moments in American cinema when art catches history in its teeth — when the camera becomes a prophecy. Two films from the late 1970s do this. Hal Ashby’s “Being There” (1979) and Sidney ...
RYAN GOSLING DINES WITH PAUL SCHNEIDER, EMILY MORTIMER AND “BIANCA” IN CRAIG GILLESPIE’S LARS AND THE REAL GIRL. COURTESY MGM. Leading up to the Oscars on Feb. 24, we will be highlighting the ...
From director Hal Ashby, Being There is wildly intelligent movie about an incredibly unintelligent man. Peter Sellers stars with Shirley MacLaine in a story about a simple-minded gardener and the ...