Ah this film which burns at the end of
Macadam two lanes
, quite a symbol!
Its director, the American Monte Hellman, died Tuesday in California, after falling at his home, reports the site Variety.
He was 91 years old.
In addition to his
1971
two-track Macadam
masterpiece
, the filmmaker had propelled Jack Nicholson to the top of the bill with the films
The Hurricane of Vengeance
and
The Shooting,
and was considered cult by many moviegoers, to start with Quentin Tarantino.
Cult movie
Born July 12, 1929 in New York, Monte Hellman began his career with Roger Corman, first as an editor and then as a director with the horror film
Beast from Haunted Cave
in 1959
.
His meeting with Jack Nicholson is a key moment in his life and his career. They will shoot four films together:
Flight to Fury, Back Door to Hell
, and especially
L'Ouragan de la vengeance
and
The Shooting,
two westerns of a new genre.
But his most cult film remains
Macadam à deux lanes
, a poetic road movie on Route 66 which marked American cinema, like an
Easy Rider
.
Monte Hellman continued to shoot until the late 1980s and the Z series
Sweet Night, Bloody Night 3
, without ever achieving any real commercial success.
He made his comeback in 2010 with the beautiful
Road to Nowhere
presented at the Venice Film Festival, where he received a special Lifetime Achievement Award.
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