Monte Hellman Retrospective
We launch the Monte Hellman Retrospective on Sunday, January 9th with The Shooting and his short film Stanley’s Girlfriend.
On Saturday, January 15th we present his new feature film Road to Nowhere, at which Monte Hellman will be presented with the festival’s Maverick Filmmaker Award.
Also, there are free nightly screenings of classic Hellman films at The Ace Hotel Monday to Friday at 9PM. (Seating is limited so please arrive early!)
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Road to Nowhere
USA, 2010, 121 min.
Cult director Hellman returns after 21 years with this noir-ish mystery—arthouse pulp, as one critic aptly named it—about an arrogant young filmmaker whose obsession with an actress threatens both the film he is making and the “real lives” of those making it.... more
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The Shooting
USA, 1967, 82 min.
Hellman’s cult classic is an existential Western head-trip in which a bounty hunter (Oates), his sidekick (Hutchins) and a psychotic gunman (the lean and mean Nicholson) accompany a mysterious woman (Perkins) on a desert journey spiked with foreboding and violence. Preceded by Stanley’s Girlfriend,... more
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