In The Heat Of The Night
Alan Parker’s film Mississippi Burning (1988) is a film about hate. It offers viewers an endless spectacle of hatred and violence with only the illusion of nuance. Parker’s images of… Read more »
Tag: Hal Ashby
8 Million Ways To Die
8 Million Ways To Die (1986) could have been one of Hal Ashby’s greatest films, but he was fired before post-production could begin. Ashby’s great talent was to shoot his… Read more »
Shampoo
Shampoo (1975), unlike Hal Ashby’s earlier films The Last Detail (1973) and Harold and Maude (1971), lacks the presence of any literal physical death. Instead, the film focuses on a… Read more »
Harold & Maude
Harold & Maude (1971) is the first of three films directed by Hal Ashby in the first half of the seventies that deals with death. The explicit nature with which… Read more »
