When was the last time you watched Being There? Sure, everyone namedropped the Peter Sellers movie, about an idiot savant who watches TV and becomes a major political player, when a certain someone ...

Hal Ashby —the director of “ Harold and Maude,” “ Shampoo,” “ Being There,” “ Bound for Glory ” and a host of other low-level classics—is one of those people who’s now famous for not being especially ...

"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 ...

Here comes Amy Scott’s Hal, one of eight, count ‘em, eight feature documentaries scheduled to open in theaters on Sept. 14. This one is about the (sometimes) brilliantly off-center film director Hal ...

Weekend debuts are minimal as the film industry’s gravity heads north to the Toronto International Film Festival, though some roll outs hope to fill a narrow vacuum of new specialties in the ...

Oscilloscope Laboratories has acquired North American rights to Amy Scott’s Hal Ashby documentary “Hal,” which premiered earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival. Oscilloscope will release the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Also notable is that Ethan Hawke-directed music bio-drama Blaze opens in New York in three locations Friday, following a ...