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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

SAMUEL BECKETT is mentioned often in the choice extras on this Criterion double-header, and not just because director Monte Hellman had staged “Waiting for Godot” as a Western years before he and Jack ...

The concept of the “open road,” and all of its existential connotations, has been the subject of many works of art long before Dennis Hopper’s counterculture classic “Easy Rider” popularized it on ...

The Shooting, the cult classic '60s Western starring future Oscar-winner Jack Nicholson, is airing on TV today (Thursday, 30 ...

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 ...

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 ...