Country: USA
Year: 1971
Duration: 91'
Harold is eighteen years old, he is obsessed with death, he goes to funerals, he visits cemeteries, his fakes his suicide to attract his mother’s attention. And then one day he meets Maude, an eithy-year-old sculptress who loves life. A necrophile and surreal comedy about the freedom to be yourself, starring Bud Cort (Altman’s Brewster McCloud) and Ruth Gordon (a great Hollywood screenwriter, with her husband Garson Kanin). Ashby’s second time behind the camera, with music by Cat Stevens.
Biography
film director
Hal Ashby
Hal Ashby
was born in
Hal Ashby
was assistant editor for: 1958 The Big
Country by William Wyler; 1959: The
Diary of Anne Frank by George Stevens; 1961: The Young Doctors by Phil Carlson; The Children Hours by William Wyler; 1963: Captain Sinbad by Byron Haskin; 1964: The Best Man by Franklin Schaffner; 1965: The Greatest Story Ever Told by George Steven.
He was
editor-in-chief for: 1965: The Loved One
by Tony Richardson; The Cincinnati Kid
by Norman Jewison; 1966: The Russians Are
Coming, the Russians Are Coming by Norman Jewison; 1967: In
the Heat of the Night by Norman Jewison; 1968: The Thomas Crown Affair by Norman Jewison.
Ashby also
worked as associate producer for The
Thomas Crown Affair and Gaily Gaily (1969),
both directed by Jewison.
He directed
the following films: 1970: The Landlord;
1971: Harold and Maude; 1973: The Last Detail; 1975: Shampoo; 1976: Bound for Glory; 1978: Coming
Home; Second-Hand Hearts; 1979: Being There; 1980: The Hawkline Monster; 1981: Lookin’
to Get Out; 1982: Rolling Stones.
Traduzione in inglese Silvia Cometti / English translation by Silvia Cometti
FILMOGRAFIA
The Landlord (Il padrone di casa, 1970), Harold and Maude (Harold e Maude, 1971), The Last Detail (L’ultima corvè, 1973), Shampoo (id., 1975), Bound for Glory (Questa terra è la mia terra, 1976), Coming Home (Tornando a casa, 1978), Being There (Oltre il giardino, 1979), Second-Hand Hearts (Cuori di seconda mano, 1981), Lookin’ to Get Out (Cercando di uscire, 1982), Let’s Spend the Night Together (Time Is on Our Side: The Rolling Stones, 1982), The Slugger’s Wife (La moglie del campione, 1985), 8 Million Ways to Die (8 milioni di modi per morire, 1986).
Cast
& Credits
REGIA
Hal Ashby
SCENEGGIATURA
Colin Higgins
FOTOGRAFIA
John A. Alonzo
MONTAGGIO
William A. Sawyer, Edward Warschilka
SCENOGRAFIA
Michael D. Haller
INTERPRETI E PERSONAGGI
Ruth Gordon (Maude), Bud Cort (Harold), Vivian Pickles (Mrs Chasen), Cyril Cusack (Glaucus), Charles Tyner (lo zio/uncle Victor), Ellen Geer (Sunshine Doré)
PRODUTTORI
Colin Higgins, Charles Mulvehill
PRODUZIONE
Mildred Lewis and Colin Higgins, Paramount Pictures
Hal Ashby
SCENEGGIATURA
Colin Higgins
FOTOGRAFIA
John A. Alonzo
MONTAGGIO
William A. Sawyer, Edward Warschilka
SCENOGRAFIA
Michael D. Haller
INTERPRETI E PERSONAGGI
Ruth Gordon (Maude), Bud Cort (Harold), Vivian Pickles (Mrs Chasen), Cyril Cusack (Glaucus), Charles Tyner (lo zio/uncle Victor), Ellen Geer (Sunshine Doré)
PRODUTTORI
Colin Higgins, Charles Mulvehill
PRODUZIONE
Mildred Lewis and Colin Higgins, Paramount Pictures
