Hal (2019)
Believe In Cinema.
Genre : Documentary
Runtime : 1H 30M
Director : Amy Scott
Synopsis
Hal Ashby's obsessive genius led to an unprecedented string of Oscar®-winning classics, including Harold and Maude, Shampoo and Being There. But as contemporaries Coppola, Scorsese and Spielberg rose to blockbuster stardom in the 1980s, Ashby's uncompromising nature played out as a cautionary tale of art versus commerce.
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