In the long dream of American cinema, Hal Ashby occupies a strange and haunted room — off the hallway of the greats, cluttered with forgotten scripts, bong water and the heavy air of things once ...

There are moments in American cinema when art catches history in its teeth — when the camera becomes a prophecy. Two films from the late 1970s do this. Hal Ashby’s “Being There” (1979) and Sidney ...

Jon Busch will be enshrined in the Aspen Hall of Fame at a ceremony next month, but in December you can see the local legend and film presenter hosting and working the projector during his film series ...

Hal Ashby liked characters—especially characters who were characters. Empathy was Ashby's ace in the hole. In a 1978 Minneapolis Star interview, Ashby admitted he didn't socialize with the set ...

There’s a moment in Hal Ashby’s “Shampoo” (1975) where the camera floats with a detached observational air over Beverly Hills; it captures not the glimmering golden promise of 1960s America, but the ...