Hal Ashby

Hal Ashby

出生 : 1929-09-02, Ogden, Utah, USA

死亡 : 1988-12-27

略歴

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Hal Ashby was an American film director and editor associated with the New Hollywood wave of filmmaking. Before his career as a director Ashby edited films for Norman Jewison, notably The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming (1966), which earned Ashby an Oscar nomination for Best Editing, and In the Heat of the Night (1967), which earned him his only Oscar for the same category. Ashby received a third Oscar nomination, this time for Best Director for Coming Home (1978). Other films directed by Ashby include The Landlord (1970), Harold and Maude (1971), The Last Detail (1973), Shampoo (1975), Bound for Glory (1976) and Being There (1979). Born William Hal Ashby in Ogden, Utah, he grew up in a Mormon household. His tumultuous childhood as part of a dysfunctional family included the divorce of his parents, his father's suicide, and dropping out of high school. Ashby was married and divorced by the time he was 19. As Ashby was entering adult life, he moved from Utah to California where he soon became an assistant film editor. After being nominated for the Academy Award for Film Editing in 1967 for The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming, his big break occurred in 1968 when he won the award for In the Heat of the Night. At the urging of producer Norman Jewison, Ashby directed his first film The Landlord in 1970. While his birth date placed him squarely within the realm of the prewar generation, the filmmaker quickly embraced the hippie lifestyle, adopting vegetarianism and growing his hair long. In 1970 he married actress Joan Marshall. While they remained married until his death in 1988, the two had separated by the mid-seventies, with Marshall never forgiving Ashby, along with Warren Beatty and Robert Towne, for dramatizing certain unflattering elements of her life in Shampoo. Over the next 16 years, Ashby directed several acclaimed and popular films, many were about outsiders and adventurers traversing the pathways of life. Aside from Shampoo, Ashby's most commercially successful film was the Vietnam War drama Coming Home (1978). Starring Jane Fonda and Jon Voight, both in Academy Award-winning performances, it was for this film that Ashby earned his only Best Director nomination from the Academy for his work. After Being There (his last film to achieve widespread attention), Ashby became notoriously reclusive and eccentric, retreating to his home in Malibu Colony. Later it was learned that Ashby was using drugs, and he slowly became difficult and unemployable. Attempting to turn a corner in his declining career, Ashby stopped using drugs, trimmed his hair and beard, and began to frequently attend Hollywood parties wearing a navy blue blazer so as to suggest that he was once again employable. Despite these efforts, he could only find work as a television director. Ashby died on December 27, 1988 at his home in Malibu, California. The Last Detail, Bound for Glory, Coming Home, and Being There were all nominated for the Palme d'Or.

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参加作品

Hal
Self (archive footage)
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.
The Rolling Stones: Satisfaction Interviews
Director
This film contains interview material and archival footage presented all on one film. It begins with very rare black and white Australian documentary from the 60s with Jagger looking like the rebel, and Keith, looking somewhat wasted, talking about Brian Jones in some depth. Also featured are press conferences, a classic interview with Mick, Ronnie and a hung over Charlie Watts, the Life Time Achievements awards, Bill Wyman interview, Keith on why he loves the Stones, Charlie speaking about touring etc, and a long Australian interview to finish.
Jake's Journey
Director
A normal teenager is transported to a Monty Pythonesque medieval fantasy land where an odd, adamant knight takes him on a quest.
8 Million Ways to Die
Director
Scudder is a detective with the Sheriff's Department who is forced to shoot a violent suspect during a narcotics raid. The ensuing psychological aftermath of this shooting worsens his drinking problem and this alcoholism causes him to lose his job, as well as his marriage.
The Slugger's Wife
Director
Darryl Palmer (Michael O'Keefe) is a major league baseball player who meets and pursues an attractive singer (Rebecca De Mornay). After some setbacks, the two are married and sent on an emotional journey that sees his career take off, while hers doesn't. When she gives up her dreams to support her husband, she can't escape her own unhappiness. With a separation on the horizon, Darryl must choose between his big-league life and his one true love.
Neil Young: Solo Trans
Director
Solo Trans is a concert film by Neil Young, released in 1984. It was recorded at the Hara Arena in Dayton, Ohio on September 18, 1983 during Young's Solo Trans tour. Originally released on only LaserDisc, the film has since gone out of print.
Let's Spend the Night Together
Director
The Rolling Stones' record-breaking 1981 North American arena tour documented by director Hal Ashby. Featuring the biggest Rolling Stones songs from the first 20 years - in the words of Mick Jagger, "a feel of what it's like to be there", as 20 cameras take you onstage with the band in this groundbreaking, dynamic tour.
Lookin' to Get Out
Director
Two gamblers must leave New York City after one loses a lot of money. Doing what all gamblers in trouble would do, they hurry to the gambling capital Las Vegas to turn their luck around.
Second-Hand Hearts
Director
A boozy drifter tries to get to know the widow he married while on a bender.
チャンス
Man at File Cabinet at the Washington Post (uncredited)
知的障害があり読み書きもできない庭師チャンスは物心ついた頃から住み込みで働いていた家の当主の死を知らされるが理解できない。代理人の弁護士から命じられて、今まで出たことがなかった屋敷を出されることになった。チャンスは町で車に接触し、乗っていたエヴァから治療を家ですることを勧められる。名前を問われて「庭師のチャンスです」と応えるが「チャンシー・ガーディナー」という名であると勘違いされる。
チャンス
Director
知的障害があり読み書きもできない庭師チャンスは物心ついた頃から住み込みで働いていた家の当主の死を知らされるが理解できない。代理人の弁護士から命じられて、今まで出たことがなかった屋敷を出されることになった。チャンスは町で車に接触し、乗っていたエヴァから治療を家ですることを勧められる。名前を問われて「庭師のチャンスです」と応えるが「チャンシー・ガーディナー」という名であると勘違いされる。
Coming Home
Director
The wife of a Marine serving in Vietnam, Sally Hyde decides to volunteer at a local veterans hospital to occupy her time. There she meets Luke Martin, a frustrated wheelchair-bound vet who has become disillusioned with the war. Sally and Luke develop a friendship that soon turns into a romance.
Bound for Glory
Director
A biography of Woody Guthrie, one of America's greatest folk singers. He left his dust-devastated Texas home in the 1930s to find work, discovering the suffering and strength of America's working class.
The Stronger
Executive Producer
Adaptation of a Strindberg play by Lee Grant for the 1974 AFI Directing Workshop for Women. Restored in 2022 by the Academy Film Archive and The Film Foundation. Restoration funding provided by the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation. 
Shampoo
Director
George Roundy is a Beverly Hills hairstylist whose uncontrolled libido stands between him and his ambitions. He wants the security of a relationship. He wants to be a hairdressing "star" and open his own salon. But the fact that he beds down with the wife, daughter and mistress of a potential backer doesn't help. It also does little for his relationship with his current girlfriend.
さらば冬のかもめ
Bearded Man at Bar (uncredited)
軍隊という管理下に置かれた人間のやりきれない気持ちをコメディ・タッチで描いたアメリカンニューシネマの佳作。基地の募金箱から40ドルぽっちを盗もうとした罪で8年の実刑が決まったダメ水兵を下士官2人が休暇気分で護送することになる。3人はやがて奇妙な連帯感で結ばれていくが……。
さらば冬のかもめ
Director
軍隊という管理下に置かれた人間のやりきれない気持ちをコメディ・タッチで描いたアメリカンニューシネマの佳作。基地の募金箱から40ドルぽっちを盗もうとした罪で8年の実刑が決まったダメ水兵を下士官2人が休暇気分で護送することになる。3人はやがて奇妙な連帯感で結ばれていくが……。
ハロルドとモード 少年は虹を渡る
Bearded Man Watching Model Train (uncredited)
生きる意味を見失った19歳のハロルドは、狂言自殺をしては周囲の驚く反応を見て楽しんでいた。ある日、ハロルドは79歳の老婦人、モードと出会う。生きることを楽しむモードを愛するようになったハロルドは、モードと結婚することを決意。幸せ絶頂のハロルドとモードだった。
ハロルドとモード 少年は虹を渡る
Director
生きる意味を見失った19歳のハロルドは、狂言自殺をしては周囲の驚く反応を見て楽しんでいた。ある日、ハロルドは79歳の老婦人、モードと出会う。生きることを楽しむモードを愛するようになったハロルドは、モードと結婚することを決意。幸せ絶頂のハロルドとモードだった。
The Landlord
Groom in Opening Shot (uncredited)
At the age of twenty-nine, Elgar Enders "runs away" from home. This running away consists of buying a building in a black ghetto in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn. Initially, his intention is to evict the black tenants and convert the building into a posh flat. But Elgar is not one to be bound by yesterday's urges, and soon he has other thoughts on his mind.
The Landlord
Director
At the age of twenty-nine, Elgar Enders "runs away" from home. This running away consists of buying a building in a black ghetto in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn. Initially, his intention is to evict the black tenants and convert the building into a posh flat. But Elgar is not one to be bound by yesterday's urges, and soon he has other thoughts on his mind.
Gaily, Gaily
Associate Producer
After runaway Ben Young is robbed and left on his own, he is taken in by Lil, the head of a Chicago brothel. Acting as a surrogate mother for Ben, who thinks she runs a boardinghouse, Lil gets him a job with Francis Sullivan at the local newspaper. As Ben is exposed to the workings of the big city, he realizes the extent of government corruption and sets out on the daunting task of reforming Chicago politics, finding several allies along the way.
華麗なる賭け
Editor
スティーヴ・マックィーン主演による犯罪ロマンス映画。とあるホテルの一室で、二人の男がボストンの市中銀行を白昼襲撃するという一大犯罪計画が密談されていた。そこへ計画者と思われる男が、度肝を抜く秒刻みの作戦を披露する。やがて計画は実行されるが……。
華麗なる賭け
Producer
スティーヴ・マックィーン主演による犯罪ロマンス映画。とあるホテルの一室で、二人の男がボストンの市中銀行を白昼襲撃するという一大犯罪計画が密談されていた。そこへ計画者と思われる男が、度肝を抜く秒刻みの作戦を披露する。やがて計画は実行されるが……。
夜の大捜査線
Producer's Assistant
南部で発生した殺人事件の容疑者として、駅で列車を待っていた黒人青年ヴァージルの身柄が拘束された。しかし警察の取り調べによって、ヴァージルは殺人課の刑事であることが判明する。警察署長のビルは、ヴァージルに反感を覚えながらも、協力して捜査を進めていくが……。
夜の大捜査線
Editor
南部で発生した殺人事件の容疑者として、駅で列車を待っていた黒人青年ヴァージルの身柄が拘束された。しかし警察の取り調べによって、ヴァージルは殺人課の刑事であることが判明する。警察署長のビルは、ヴァージルに反感を覚えながらも、協力して捜査を進めていくが……。
The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!
Editor
When a Soviet submarine gets stuck on a sandbar off the coast of a New England island, its commander orders his second-in-command, Lieutenant Rozanov, to get them moving again before there is an international incident. Rozanov seeks assistance from the island locals, including the police chief and a vacationing television writer, while trying to allay their fears of a Communist invasion by claiming he and his crew are Norwegian sailors.
シンシナティ・キッド
Editor
An up-and-coming poker player tries to prove himself in a high-stakes match against a long-time master of the game.
The Loved One
Editor
Newly arrived in Hollywood from England, Dennis Barlow finds he has to arrange his uncle's interment at the highly-organised and very profitable Whispering Glades funeral parlour. His fancy is caught by one of their cosmeticians, Aimee Thanatogenos. But he has three problems - the strict rules of owner Blessed Reverand Glenworthy, the rivalry of embalmer Mr Joyboy, and the shame of now working himself at The Happy Hunting Ground pets' memorial home.
The Best Man
Editorial Consultant
The other party is in disarray. Five men vie for the party nomination for president. No one has a majority as the first ballot closes and the front-runners begin to decide how badly they want the job.
大いなる西部
Assistant Editor
1870年代のテキサスを舞台にした、グレゴリー・ペック製作、主演の正統派ウエスタン大作。水源地を巡って2大牧場主が争う地に、東部から青年・マッケイがやって来た。中立の立場で誰にでも水を分け与えるという条件で、彼はその水源地を手に入れる。