Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The late American indie film auteur Monte Hellman was fond of a quote from Jean Cocteau that poetically summed up the fate of any ...

Joseph Ornelas is a former freelance features writer at Collider, where he explored the worlds of film and television through in-depth essays, lists, and analysis. Passionate about storytelling across ...

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 ...

1971, 103 min., not rated, $39.95 Blu-ray The roar of muscular engines is the first sensation to hit you as "Two-Lane Blacktop" revs itself into reality, and it's the dominant force throughout the ...

Months before completion, this 1971 story of an existential cross-country drag race was hailed “an instant classic” by Rolling Stone, while Esquire prematurely declared it “movie of the year.” The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Influential director Monte Hellman, whose 1971 film Two-Lane Blacktop starring musicians James Taylor and Dennis Wilson became a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Monte Hellman, a director known for cult classics like “Two-Lane Blacktop” and who also produced “Reservoir Dogs,” has died at the age of 91. Melissa Hellman, the director’s daughter, told The ...