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1.Being There [1979] starring: Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Melvyn Douglas, Jack Warden, Richard Dysart directed by: Hal Ashby February 10, 2003
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'Being There' is a film Peter Sellers made right at the end of his career. Whatever you make of this troubled man's life, I think you will agree that the role he plays here, of Chance the gardener, represents a brave exit from the glitzy world of movies. Indeed, Being There could be seen as a satire on the celebrity industry of which Peter Sellers was so much a part. Chance is a man who has never grown up. Employed for the whole of his existence by a rich man in Washington who has just died, Chance's life has been dominated by gardening, television and little else. His employer's huge house, a home that Chance has never left for a moment, is being sold, and Chance finds himself out on the street, and hopelessly ill-equipped for ... Read More:

2.Harold & Maude - Paramount Originals (includes Limited Edition reproduction film poster) [1971] starring: Bud Cort, Ruth Gordon, Cyril Cusack, Vivian Pickles, Ellen Geer directed by: Hal Ashby July 23, 2007
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You can see where Wes Anderson gets his visual style from when watching this film. A great story!

3.The Last Detail [1973] starring: Jack Nicholson, Randy Quaid, Otis Young, Clifton James, Carol Kane directed by: Hal Ashby August 05, 2002
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This Jack Nicholson road movie made when he was pretty much still typecast as the anti hero drifter rebel type he played so convincingly, is choc full of those Kerouac type one liners he loved. A crackling screenplay with some good scenes gives the man real opportunities to do his party pieces, as well as show a real gift for world worn cynicism. His acting is just so natural, yet very, very powerful. Has there ever been another movie actor like him, I ask.

4.Bound For Glory [1976] starring: David Carradine, Ronny Cox, Melinda Dillon, Gail Strickland, John Lehne directed by: Hal Ashby September 15, 2003
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I'm slowly making my way through Hal Ashby's filmography, shaking my head and wondering what could have been if this genius had lived a little longer. This film is based on the protest singer Woody Guthrie's autobiography. It shows his life in middle America before he was known, his struggle to reach California, his early musical career, his support of the workers and the unions (a commie bastard in many people's eyes.) Some scenes of migrant workers arriving in California, and the treatment they received, are very reminiscent of the arrival of jews at concentration camps. Scenes of Woody playing music with his friends, of young women strumming their guitars in the migrant worker camps, catch the viewer by surprise with their simple beauty. Ashby told stories that ... Read More:

5.Harold & Maude [1971] starring: Bud Cort, Ruth Gordon, Cyril Cusack, Vivian Pickles, Ellen Geer directed by: Hal Ashby May 13, 2002
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This is my favourite film of all time and I'd recommend it to anyone. Life affirming, poignant, moving - altogether fabulous. I've just bought this dvd to replace the video version which I no longer have the technology to play. There's no way I could be without a copy of this film, it makes the greyest day a little brighter.

6.Rolling Stones : Let's Spend The Night Together starring: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood, Charlie Watts, Bill Wyman directed by: Hal Ashby
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The Stones have earned their mantle for being real musicians. They can be rightly be called as legends having been responsible for Beggars banquet, Let it bleed, Sticky fingers and Exile on main street which are Classic albums essential for anybody who is into Rock music. While they have produced serious stuff, they have never taken themselves seriously, they are a fun band and out to entertain. As, at the time this was filmed, they were nearing middle age, they were not out to shock to appeal to the teenyboppers, they were out to be as outrageous as possible and wallow in the 'debauched rock and roll lifestyle'. IMHO, this is a perfect example of it. Sure Jagger can't sing and the guitars sounded out of tune but that was not what ... Read More:

7.Jack Nicholson - In The Frame Collection (Five Easy Pieces/As Good As It Gets/The Last Detail/Easy Rider/A Few Good Men/ The King of Marvin Gardens) starring: Jack Nicholson, Demi Moore, Bruce Dern, Ellen Burstyn, Karen Black directed by: Dennis Hopper, Bob Rafelson, James L. Brooks, Hal Ashby, Rob Reiner October 29, 2007
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The Stones have earned their mantle for being real musicians. They can be rightly be called as legends having been responsible for Beggars banquet, Let it bleed, Sticky fingers and Exile on main street which are Classic albums essential for anybody who is into Rock music. While they have produced serious stuff, they have never taken themselves seriously, they are a fun band and out to entertain. As, at the time this was filmed, they were nearing middle age, they were not out to shock to appeal to the teenyboppers, they were out to be as outrageous as possible and wallow in the 'debauched rock and roll lifestyle'. IMHO, this is a perfect example of it. Sure Jagger can't sing and the guitars sounded out of tune but that was not what ... Read More:

8.Shampoo starring: Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Goldie Hawn, Lee Grant, Jack Warden directed by: Hal Ashby February 16, 2004
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This was a five star film when I was twenty, and genuinely cried at the end feeling my hero had a hard time of it and wern't women cruel and wasn't that the best party ever...now I saw it, laughed a bit, once, and found it horribly dated...but dear viewer, if you are twenty, and sexually inexperienced, you'l probably think it is brilliant..like the Doors really, and there is nothing wrong with that, I just dread watching the Hair film by milos forman again, to find it's lustre gone(do I dare?)

9.Harold and Maude [1971] (REGION 1) (NTSC) starring: Ruth Gordon, Bud Cort, Vivian Pickles, Cyril Cusack, Charles Tyner directed by: Hal Ashby June 27, 2000
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This is my favourite film of all time and I'd recommend it to anyone. Life affirming, poignant, moving - altogether fabulous. I've just bought this dvd to replace the video version which I no longer have the technology to play. There's no way I could be without a copy of this film, it makes the greyest day a little brighter.

10.Being There [Blu-ray] [1979] starring: Peter Sellers, Shirley Maclaine, Jack Warden, Melvyn Douglas, Richard Basehart directed by: Hal Ashby February 23, 2009
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This is my favourite film of all time and I'd recommend it to anyone. Life affirming, poignant, moving - altogether fabulous. I've just bought this dvd to replace the video version which I no longer have the technology to play. There's no way I could be without a copy of this film, it makes the greyest day a little brighter.

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