Hal Ashby Academy Schedule
Marki Bey, Beau Bridges in The Landlord
Hal Ashby Tribute
The schedule/synopses below are from the Academy’s press release:
Friday, June 26, 7 p.m. at the Linwood Dunn Theater
The Landlord (1970)
Ashby made his directorial debut with this poignant comedy in which a wealthy young man buys a Brooklyn apartment building and plans to displace the mostly black tenants, before personal relationships cause him to rethink his intentions.
Cast: Beau Bridges, Pearl Bailey, Diana Sands, Louis Gossett, Lee Grant
Academy Award nominee: Actress in a Supporting Role (Grant)
Shampoo (1975)
This classic tale of womanizing and blowouts in the fast lane of the swinging ‘60s was written by the film’s star, Warren Beatty, and the Oscar-winning writer of Chinatown, Robert [...]
by Andre Soares | June 16, 2009
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Tags: Beau Bridges, Being There, Classic Movies, Hal Ashby, Jack Nicholson, Los Angeles Screenings, Peter Sellers, The Landlord, The Last Detail
Hal Ashby Tribute
Bud Cort, Ruth Gordon in Harold and Maude (top); Julie Christie, Warren Beatty in Shampoo (bottom)
Cameron Crowe and Peter Bart will host a panel discussion with Haskell Wexler, Jon Voight, Judd Apatow, Seth Rogen, Diablo Cody, and Ashby’s agent Jeff Berg as part of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences salute to Oscar-winning film editor and director Hal Ashby (right) on Thursday, June 25, at 7:30 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.
The panel discussion will be followed by a screening of Ashby’s quirky 1971 classic Harold and Maude, starring Bud Cort and Ruth Gordon.
The salute will also kick off a weekend retrospective screening series [...]
by Andre Soares | June 16, 2009
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Tags: Classic Movies, Coming Home, Hal Ashby, Harold and Maude, Jane Fonda, Jon Voight, Julie Christie, Los Angeles Screenings, Ruth Gordon, Shampoo, Warren Beatty
David Carradine
David Carradine in Bound for Glory
David Carradine, the star of the 1970s TV series Kung Fu (right), was found hanged in his Bangkok hotel room early this morning. According to reports, there was no evidence of foul play at the scene. Carradine, who was in the Thai capital working on a film, was 72.
Born in Los Angeles on Dec. 8, 1936, Carradine was the son of actor John Carradine, best known for playing assorted evildoers and mad doctors in dozens of films from the 1930s to the 1980s. David Carradine’s brothers are also actors: Keith Carradine, among whose credits is Robert Altman’s classic Nashville, and Robert Carradine, best known for his role in the Revenge of the Nerds movies.
Throughout [...]
by Andre Soares | June 4, 2009
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Tags: Barbara Hershey, Bound for Glory, Boxcar Bertha, Burt Kennedy, Cannonball!, David Carradine, Hal Ashby, Ingmar Bergman, John Carradine, Keith Carradine, Kill Bill: Vol. 1, Kill Bill: Vol. 2, Kung Fu, Martin Scorsese, Nashville, Paul Bartel, Quentin Tarantino, Revenge of the Nerds, Robert Altman, Robert Carradine, Spirit of Shaolin, The Long Riders, The Serpent's Egg, Walter Hill, Woody Guthrie, Young Billy Young
