Monte Hellman

Friends and admirers of iconoclastic film director Sam Fuller read from his memoirs in this unconventional documentary directed by Fuller's only child, Samantha.

Made for the Venice Film Festival's 70th anniversary, seventy filmmakers made a short film between 60 and 90 seconds long on their interpretation of the future of cinema.

When it comes to producing, no one speaks with more authority than Lloyd Kaufman creator of The Toxic Avenger and founder of the longest-running independent film studio, Troma Entertainment. Over the years he has discovered talents such as Trey Parker and Matt Stone (South Park, The Book of Mormon) and Vincent D'Onofrio (Law & Order: Criminal Intent) to name a few. Candid interviews, tips, tricks and tidbits scattered throughout the DVD give filmmakers practical tools for getting a movie shoot off the ground, keeping it afloat and seeing it through to the end - Lloyd Kaufman shows you how it's really done.

Documentary by Luc Lagier exploring Godard's career as a filmmaker, the production of Breathless and his influence and his relationship with American cinema.

Um cineasta (Tygh Runyan) se vê arrastado para uma complexa teia de intrigas o assombrando e fica obcecado com uma mulher, um crime e com o seu passado.

Um cineasta (Tygh Runyan) se vê arrastado para uma complexa teia de intrigas o assombrando e fica obcecado com uma mulher, um crime e com o seu passado.

The Midnight Sun Film Festival is held every June in the Finnish village of Sodankylä beyond the arctic circle — where the sun never sets. Founded by Aki and Mika Kaurismäki along with Anssi Mänttäri and Peter von Bagh in 1985, the festival has played host to an international who’s who of directors and each day begins with a two-hour discussion. To mark the festival’s silver anniversary, festival director Peter von Bagh edited together highlights from these dialogues to create an epic four-part choral history of cinema drawn from the anecdotes, insights, and wisdom of his all-star cast: Coppola, Fuller, Forman, Chabrol, Corman, Demy, Kieslowski, Kiarostami, Varda, Oliveira, Erice, Rouch, Gilliam, Jancso — and 64 more. Ranging across innumerable topics (war, censorship, movie stars, formative influences, America, neorealism) these voices, many now passed away, engage in a personal dialogue across the years that’s by turns charming, profound, hilarious and moving.

An interview with the producers of Monte Hellman's 1971 film TWO-LANE BLACKTOP.

An interview with the producers of Monte Hellman's 1971 film TWO-LANE BLACKTOP.

After not having seen each other in thirty-five years, Monte Hellman and James Taylor sat down for this conversation, recorded in the fall of 2007 in Massachusetts.

After not having seen each other in thirty-five years, Monte Hellman and James Taylor sat down for this conversation, recorded in the fall of 2007 in Massachusetts.

A retrospective documentary on the making of Monte Hellman's 1971 film TWO-LANE BLACKTOP.

This interview features director Monte Hellman and singer-songwriter-actor Kris Kristofferson. It was filmed in Los Angeles in the summer of 2007.

This interview features director Monte Hellman and singer-songwriter-actor Kris Kristofferson. It was filmed in Los Angeles in the summer of 2007.

After not having seen each other in thirty-five years, Monte Hellman and James Taylor sat down for this conversation, recorded in the fall of 2007 in Massachusetts.

Presos em uma casa de horror, sete pessoas descobrem que a única maneira de sairem vivos é contar suas histórias mais assustadoras.

A look at the mystique of road movies, combining interviews, film clips, music, photography, literature and a narrative storyline featuring Paul Rudd and Tom McCarthy.

Set in 1950's Hollywood, two filmmakers become unlikely friends: Leo, who writes violent B-movies, and Stanley, a promising director. Nothing can come between them, until the day Stanley shows up with a mysterious girlfriend, Nina.

A documentary examining the decade of the 1970s as a turning point in American cinema. Some of today's best filmmakers interview the influential directors of that time.

A look at 1970s Hollywood when it was known as New Hollywood, and the director was the star of the movie.

An aspiring Hollywood actress, on a visit to a charming North England town, has a brief fling with the town undertaker, who also writes obituaries for the local paper. Returning home, where she works as a waitress at a Japanese restaurant, she tells everyone about the handsome "writer" she met on her trip. Unfortunately, he decides to follow her back to Hollywood, setting up the expected light romantic comedy with asides as the newcomer gains experience about the goings on in Hollywood.

This straight-talking program seeks to understand the enigmatic and controversial Sam Peckinpah, whose violent films such as The Wild Bunch and Straw Dogs had a telling effect on the cinema of the 1970s and 80s. Those who knew and worked with him, including actor James Coburn, actress Ali MacGraw, his associate Katherine Haber, his cousin Bob Peckinpah, and several screenwriters and producers, examine his life in an attempt to separate the man from the persona. Clips from key films reinforce this detailed discussion of Peckinpah's art and a fixation on violence that still permeates Hollywood today.

During the Civil War, Confederate soldiers accidentally free an evil voodoo entity brought back by slave traders. The entity possesses the dead bodies of both Union and Confederate soldiers creating an army of its own bent on conquest.

A retrospective of the work of the late actor Warren Oates, with clips from his films and interviews with cast and crew members who worked with him.

Seis homens, completamente estranhos uns aos outros, realizam um roubo de diamantes que dá errado e vira uma emboscada sangrenta. Quando os bandidos restantes se reúnem no ponto de encontro combinado, começam a suspeitar que um deles é um policial disfarçado. Mas qual deles?

O excêntrico dr. Newbury (Richard Beymer) utiliza uma jovem sensitiva cega, Laura Anderson (Samantha Scully), em suas experiências secretas realizadas num hospital psiquiátrico. Sem que a jovem saiba, o cientista está criando uma ligação telepática entre ela e Ricky Caldwell (Bill Moseley), o psicopata de "Natal Sangrento 2", que está vivo, mas em estado vegetativo. Mas a experiência dá errado, despertando o Papai Noel assassino do coma para uma nova onda de mortes. Sem saber de nada, Laura decide passar o Natal com sua vó numa pequena cidade do interior, enquanto Ricky a persegue deixando uma trilha de cadáveres.

O excêntrico dr. Newbury (Richard Beymer) utiliza uma jovem sensitiva cega, Laura Anderson (Samantha Scully), em suas experiências secretas realizadas num hospital psiquiátrico. Sem que a jovem saiba, o cientista está criando uma ligação telepática entre ela e Ricky Caldwell (Bill Moseley), o psicopata de "Natal Sangrento 2", que está vivo, mas em estado vegetativo. Mas a experiência dá errado, despertando o Papai Noel assassino do coma para uma nova onda de mortes. Sem saber de nada, Laura decide passar o Natal com sua vó numa pequena cidade do interior, enquanto Ricky a persegue deixando uma trilha de cadáveres.

O excêntrico dr. Newbury (Richard Beymer) utiliza uma jovem sensitiva cega, Laura Anderson (Samantha Scully), em suas experiências secretas realizadas num hospital psiquiátrico. Sem que a jovem saiba, o cientista está criando uma ligação telepática entre ela e Ricky Caldwell (Bill Moseley), o psicopata de "Natal Sangrento 2", que está vivo, mas em estado vegetativo. Mas a experiência dá errado, despertando o Papai Noel assassino do coma para uma nova onda de mortes. Sem saber de nada, Laura decide passar o Natal com sua vó numa pequena cidade do interior, enquanto Ricky a persegue deixando uma trilha de cadáveres.

O excêntrico dr. Newbury (Richard Beymer) utiliza uma jovem sensitiva cega, Laura Anderson (Samantha Scully), em suas experiências secretas realizadas num hospital psiquiátrico. Sem que a jovem saiba, o cientista está criando uma ligação telepática entre ela e Ricky Caldwell (Bill Moseley), o psicopata de "Natal Sangrento 2", que está vivo, mas em estado vegetativo. Mas a experiência dá errado, despertando o Papai Noel assassino do coma para uma nova onda de mortes. Sem saber de nada, Laura decide passar o Natal com sua vó numa pequena cidade do interior, enquanto Ricky a persegue deixando uma trilha de cadáveres.

Interview film with Monte Hellman.

A grotesquely disfigured harpooner called Iguana is severely mistreated by his fellow sailors on a whaling ship in the 19th century. One night he escapes and takes up residence on a remote island. He makes himself ruler of the island and declares war on mankind. Anyone unfortunate enough to wind up on the island with Iguana is subjected to his cruel tyranny.

A grotesquely disfigured harpooner called Iguana is severely mistreated by his fellow sailors on a whaling ship in the 19th century. One night he escapes and takes up residence on a remote island. He makes himself ruler of the island and declares war on mankind. Anyone unfortunate enough to wind up on the island with Iguana is subjected to his cruel tyranny.

A grotesquely disfigured harpooner called Iguana is severely mistreated by his fellow sailors on a whaling ship in the 19th century. One night he escapes and takes up residence on a remote island. He makes himself ruler of the island and declares war on mankind. Anyone unfortunate enough to wind up on the island with Iguana is subjected to his cruel tyranny.

A Hollywood film director assembles a group of friends and strangers for a social gathering on Valentines Day in a deserted movie theater where he interviews each one on their opinions on love and loneliness.

Paul Joyce’s Out of the Blue and Into the Black is an insightful documentary surveying American independent film production post-Easy Rider and includes interviews with Peter Bogdanovich, Dennis Hopper, Monte Hellman and Roger Corman.

Monte Hellman was born in 1932. By 1986 he made eight features, but had not directed for six years. I had made as many documentaries, but had not turned a foot of film through a camera for two years. I decided to break the silence by spending a day with him. Nine rolls were loaded into the camera. We talked until either we or the camera ran out.

Durante o 35º Festival de Cannes em 1982, Wim Wenders pediu a vários diretores de cinema para entrar em um quarto de hotel, um de cada vez. Uma vez lá dentro, eles deveriam responder a uma única pergunta na frente da câmera: “Qual é o futuro do cinema?”

Monte Hellman's short portrait of Francis Ford Coppola discussing business and craft at home and on the set of his Zoetrope Studios.

Um sargento veterano da Primeira Guerra Mundial lidera um esquadrão na Segunda Guerra Mundial, sempre na companhia de seus recrutas, o sobrevivente Griff, o escritor Zab, o siciliano Vinci e o soldado Johnson. Participam das batalhas de Vichy na África Francesa, Sicília, D-Day na Praia Omaha, Bélgica e França, terminando em um campo de concentração na Tchecoslováquia, onde enfrentam o verdadeiro horror da guerra.

Gunslinger Clayton Drumm (Testi) is about to be hanged when he is given a chance to live if he will agree to murder Matthew (Oates), a miner who has steadfastly refused to sell his land to the railroad company. Matthew’s refusal is a major obstacle to the railroad’s plans for expansion.

Gunslinger Clayton Drumm (Testi) is about to be hanged when he is given a chance to live if he will agree to murder Matthew (Oates), a miner who has steadfastly refused to sell his land to the railroad company. Matthew’s refusal is a major obstacle to the railroad’s plans for expansion.

Gunslinger Clayton Drumm (Testi) is about to be hanged when he is given a chance to live if he will agree to murder Matthew (Oates), a miner who has steadfastly refused to sell his land to the railroad company. Matthew’s refusal is a major obstacle to the railroad’s plans for expansion.

Cinebiografia do campeão Muhammad Alim, condiserado um dos maiores pugilistas de todos os tempos.

When Ed Neilson's entire family is viciously murdered, he pleads with retired CIA operative Duke Smith (Robert Conrad) to investigate. He refuses, but relents after Neilson too meets an explosive death. Deception, international intrigue and a ruthless "syndicate of businessmen" intent on raping a South Pacific Islands nation of its resources keep the pace fast.

Mike Locken é um dos principais membros de um grupo de espiões freelancer. Uma parte significativa de seu trabalho é para a C.I.A. e em um destes casos, seu parceiro George (Duvall) se volta contra ele deixando-o quase aleijado e forçando sua aposentadoria.

A man who trains fighting cocks vows to remain silent until one of his birds wins a championship.

Shatter, an international contract killer, has been assigned to assassinate the President of a small African country and collect his fee from a bank in the Far East. On arrival in Hong Kong his life is threatened and when the bank denies all knowledge of payment arrangements, he realises he has been drawn into a dangerous game where there are no rules. Amongst the players are the Mafia and several foreign intelligence services and the stakes being played for are deadly.

A tennis champ falls in with the Hollywood crowd, finds himself being corrupted by the life in the fast lane.

A driver and a mechanic travel around the United States hopping from drag strip to drag strip in a 1955 Chevy Bel-Air coupe. They race for money, betting with their competitors. The pair gains a young and talkative female stowaway. Along the way they unintentionally attract a well-to-do drifter driving a new Pontiac GTO. This older man, looking for attention, antagonizes their efforts.

A driver and a mechanic travel around the United States hopping from drag strip to drag strip in a 1955 Chevy Bel-Air coupe. They race for money, betting with their competitors. The pair gains a young and talkative female stowaway. Along the way they unintentionally attract a well-to-do drifter driving a new Pontiac GTO. This older man, looking for attention, antagonizes their efforts.

Pilot Harry Black is hired to fly a man named Carlyle to Istanbul, where he's murdered. Now, mysterious Diane Reed and a local gangster, Rashi, are after Harry believing that he has the priceless plates Carlyle used to counterfeit money.

In this surrealistic and free-form follow-up to the Monkees' television show, the band frolic their way through a series of musical set pieces and vignettes containing humor and anti-establishment social commentary.

Chicago, 1920. Al Capone (Jason Robards) enfim consegue se estabelecer como um gângster de renome ao organizar uma emboscada contra peças chave da gangue de "Bugs" Moran (Ralph Meeker), um gângster rival. Em pleno dia dos namorados, integrantes da gangue de Capone se vestiram de policiais e encurralaram os rivais, matando-os sem pensar duas vezes. Este evento foi crucial para a ascensão de Capone dentro do crime organizado.

Três amigos são confundidos como se fossem os ladrões de uma diligência, que acaba de ser roubada. Um grupo de justiceiros com o xerife, começam uma perseguição implacável. Um deles morre enforcado e os outros dois juram vingança. Faroeste com co-produção, roteiro e estrelado brilhantemente por Jack Nicholson. A direção segura de Hellaman investe no perfil psicológico dos personagens e na construção de climas tensos, mas com o cuidado de dar a dose certa na ação... bem como um toque intimista incomum nas produções do gênero.

Três amigos são confundidos como se fossem os ladrões de uma diligência, que acaba de ser roubada. Um grupo de justiceiros com o xerife, começam uma perseguição implacável. Um deles morre enforcado e os outros dois juram vingança. Faroeste com co-produção, roteiro e estrelado brilhantemente por Jack Nicholson. A direção segura de Hellaman investe no perfil psicológico dos personagens e na construção de climas tensos, mas com o cuidado de dar a dose certa na ação... bem como um toque intimista incomum nas produções do gênero.

Três amigos são confundidos como se fossem os ladrões de uma diligência, que acaba de ser roubada. Um grupo de justiceiros com o xerife, começam uma perseguição implacável. Um deles morre enforcado e os outros dois juram vingança. Faroeste com co-produção, roteiro e estrelado brilhantemente por Jack Nicholson. A direção segura de Hellaman investe no perfil psicológico dos personagens e na construção de climas tensos, mas com o cuidado de dar a dose certa na ação... bem como um toque intimista incomum nas produções do gênero.

Anos antes de "Sem Destino", Peter Fonda estrela como Heavenly Blues, o líder de uma ganga de motociclistas selvagens. Quando seu melhor amigo (Bruxe Dern) é ferido em meio a uma tentativa de roubar uma motocicleta da polícia, tentam raptá-lo em um hospital, onde encontra-se muito debilitado. Começa assim, uma jornada desesperada de fuga. Motociclistas do Hell's Angels, foram contratados para trabalhar no filme. Mais uma pérola na filmografia do diretor produtor e mestre do "low badget", Corman.

Two miners agree to guide a mysterious woman, who has appeared in their camp from nowhere, to a nearby town; but soon, because of her erratic behavior, they begin to suspect that her true purpose is quite different.

Two miners agree to guide a mysterious woman, who has appeared in their camp from nowhere, to a nearby town; but soon, because of her erratic behavior, they begin to suspect that her true purpose is quite different.

Two miners agree to guide a mysterious woman, who has appeared in their camp from nowhere, to a nearby town; but soon, because of her erratic behavior, they begin to suspect that her true purpose is quite different.

Bus Riley returns to his small town after time in the army. On his return, his ex-girlfriend wants to resume their relationship. The only problem is she has married in the mean time. Searching for fulfilment in his life, Bus decides to get a job with his gay friend who is a mortician. When the mortician makes a pass at him, Bus quickly gets out.

During WWII, a three-man commando team places its trust in the hands of a band of Filipino resistors, as they try to knock out a Japenese communication center.

DESTROY THIS MAN and a fortune in diamonds is yours. A Filipino version of 1964's FLIGHT TO FURY, filmed back-to-back with that film.

This adventure is set in the Philippines and chronicles the exploits of two men who survive a plane crash in the jungle. One of the men is an avaricious killer who has come to the islands to search for a fortune in diamonds. The other is an international adventurer. Now they must somehow overcome their vast personal differences and desires to survive in the steamy wilderness

This adventure is set in the Philippines and chronicles the exploits of two men who survive a plane crash in the jungle. One of the men is an avaricious killer who has come to the islands to search for a fortune in diamonds. The other is an international adventurer. Now they must somehow overcome their vast personal differences and desires to survive in the steamy wilderness

This adventure is set in the Philippines and chronicles the exploits of two men who survive a plane crash in the jungle. One of the men is an avaricious killer who has come to the islands to search for a fortune in diamonds. The other is an international adventurer. Now they must somehow overcome their vast personal differences and desires to survive in the steamy wilderness

A young officer in Napoleon's army pursues a mysterious woman to the castle of an elderly Baron.

A young officer in Napoleon's army pursues a mysterious woman to the castle of an elderly Baron.

A rebellious punk of the beat generation spends his days as an amateur dirt track driver in between partying and troublemaking.

Um grupo de ladrões de ouro faz um assalto e foge para um campo coberto de neve. Mas logo eles são descobertos por um monstro terrível em forma de aranha.