Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On the release of what was to be the late Monte Hellman's final feature film in 2011, critic Steve Erickson noted "Monte Hellman ...

Actress Shannyn Sossamon and director Monte Hellman at the photo call for "Road to Nowhere" at the 2010 Venice Film Festival. (Associated Press) Monte Hellman, the director known for spare, probing ...

Influential instead of famous, brilliant in a way for which his medium has little remaining use, Monte Hellman died yesterday at 91. It was heartening, if not a bit surprising all the same, to see my ...

On the sad occasion of Monte Hellman’s passing, we’re republishing this interview of the director that originally ran here in March, 2011, by Nick Dawson. Focused on his “comeback” film, Road to ...

Monte Hellman, the film director who earned a cult following with movies like Two-Lane Blacktop and Ride in the Whirlwind, died Tuesday at Eisenhower Medical Center in Palm Springs, California, after ...

In 1971, Hellman, who died Tuesday at the age of 91, made an odd little film starring James Taylor, Dennis Wilson, and Warren Oates, one that beautifully captured a moment in cars and the culture.

On the release of what was to be the late Monte Hellman’s final feature film in 2011, critic Steve Erickson noted “Monte Hellman is the ultimate outlaw filmmaker.” A decade earlier, filmmaker-critic ...

Monte Hellman was highly praised by critics Hellman's daughter said, "he was my best friend" Quentin Tarantino was a fan of Hellman Monte Hellman, who directed "Two-Lane Blacktop," "The Shooting" and ...

Pop culture can be as forbidding as it is inviting, particularly in areas that invite geeky obsession: The more devotion a genre or series or subculture inspires, the easier it is for the uninitiated ...

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 ...

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 ...