Like Rodney Dangerfield, Ashby got no respect from his peers. And that fact is an overriding theme in “Hal,” Amy Scott’s long-overdue look back at a filmmaker who revolutionized the kind of ...

The documentary “Hal” fleshes out Ashby’s story, which presumably is not well known to those who believe movie history begins with those 1970s hits “Jaws” and “Star Wars” (or later), or perhaps ...

Hal Ashby directed some of the most memorable films of the 1970s, including "Being There" and the cult classic "Harold and Maude." Yet his career also highlighted Hollywood's age-old tension between ...