Monte Hellman
Monte Hellman (born Monte Jay Himmelbaum; July 12, 1929 — April 20, 2021) was an American film director, producer, writer, and editor. He was born in New York City, where his parents were visiting, but he grew up in Los Angeles.Hellman began his career as an editor's apprentice at ABC TV, and made his directorial debut with the horror film "Beast from Haunted Cave" (1959), produced by Roger Corman. He would later gain critical recognition for the Westerns "The Shooting" and "Ride in the Whirlwind" (both 1966) starring Jack Nicholson, and the independent road movie "Two-Lane Blacktop" (1971) starring James Taylor and Dennis Wilson. His later directorial work included the slasher film "Silent Night, Deadly Night 3: Better Watch Out!" (1989) and the independent thriller "Road to Nowhere" (2010). Description above from the Wikipedia article Monte Hellman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
L.A. Without a Map
as HimselfAn aspiring Hollywood actress, on a visit to a charming North England town, has a brief fling...
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Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
as SelfThe chronicle of the mind-blowing journey that was Hollywood during the seventies; the true and...
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A Decade Under the Influence
as SelfA documentary examining the decade of the 1970s as a turning point in American cinema. Some of...
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Room 666
as SelfDuring the 1982 Cannes Film Festival, Wenders asks a number of global film directors to, one at...
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Quentin Tarantino: Hollywood's Boy Wonder
as SelfA documentary profile on Quentin Tarantino broadcast by the BBC's "Omnibus" strand in 1994 to...
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The Christian Licorice Store
as JosephA tennis champ falls in with the Hollywood crowd, finds himself being corrupted by the life in...
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Someone to Love
as Attendee / RichardA Hollywood film director assembles a group of friends and strangers for a social gathering on...
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Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs
as SelfEkchart Schmidt examines the machinery behind the dream factory; the Hollywood myth is unmasked....
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A Fuller Life
as Self - Reader (segment "Vision of the Impossible")Friends and admirers of iconoclastic film director Sam Fuller read from his memoirs in this...
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Wanderlust
as HimselfA look at the mystique of road movies, combining interviews, film clips, music, photography,...
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Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron
as SelfThis straight-talking program seeks to understand the enigmatic and controversial Sam Peckinpah,...
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Produce Your Own Damn Movie!
as SelfWhen it comes to producing, no one speaks with more authority than Lloyd Kaufman creator of The...
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Warren Oates: Across the Border
as SelfA retrospective of the work of the late actor Warren Oates, with clips from his films and...
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Sodankylä Forever
as SelfThe Midnight Sun Film Festival is held every June in the Finnish village of Sodankylä beyond the...
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Out of the Blue and Into the Black
as SelfPaul Joyce’s Out of the Blue and Into the Black is an insightful documentary surveying American...
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Godard Made in USA
as SelfDocumentary by Luc Lagier exploring Godard's career as a filmmaker, the production of Breathless...
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Plunging On Alone: Monte Hellman's Life in a Day
as HimselfMonte Hellman was born in 1932. By 1986 he made eight features, but had not directed for six...
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Make it Three Yards: A Conversation with James Taylor
as SelfAfter not having seen each other in thirty-five years, Monte Hellman and James Taylor sat down...
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