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Monte Hellman, the maverick director of such films as “Two-Lane Blacktop,” “The Shooting” and “Road to Nowhere,” died April 20 at Eisenhower Medical Center in Palm Desert, Calif., following a fall in his home on April 19. He was 91. Hellman was a cult director who was widely admired within the industry, earning such fans as Quentin Tarantino; they liked his down-and-dirty storytelling, which featured poetic flourishes amid his genre films. After working as an editor’s apprentice at ABC, he made his directing debut with the 1959... [Lire la suite]

Better Watch Out ! 1989

[Lu dans Speakeasy/WSJ, 13 juin] « My daughter Melissa is my biggest fan. About three years ago she told me that, much as she loved it, she couldn’t watch Two-Lane Blacktop anymore. « She asked me why I hadn’t made a new movie in so long. « I gave the usual excuses: I’d been developing great projects, peddling them to everyone in the business I knew, getting “close but no cigar.” She said, “Why don’t you stop waiting for someone else to give you permission to make a movie? Why don’t we take our lives in our own hands, and just do... [Lire la suite]

Steven Gaydos nous fait lire un bel article de Pierre Andrieux sur Road to Nowhere. En voici quelques extraits. La version intégrale se trouve ICI. ~ L'ultime tour de magie de Monte Hellman « [...] Hellman aime ce qui résiste au sens, à l'interprétation, ce qui pose problème (d'où son goût pour les tours de magie). Au sein d'un cinéma hollywoodien qui est tout entier nourri par la dialectique riche entre mystère et sens le cinéaste pencherait plus du côté du mystère, d'un cinéma de l'opacité qui aurait tendance à... [Lire la suite]

... la preuve, cet article du New York Times daté du 16 mai. La presse française, qui couvre Lionel Jospin, Lady Gaga, Michael Douglas et le stand Cacharel, n'a pas que ça à faire. Et puisque Road to Nowhere sera à Venise en septembre, on trouvera bien cinq minutes pour en causer. ~ Shannyn Sossamon ~ Elder Statesman's New Story par John Anderson   That the director Monte Hellman is at the Cannes Film Festival isn’t really a news flash. As the elder statesman of the... [Lire la suite]