#947: ASHBY, Hal: Shampoo (1975)
ASHBY, Hal (United States)
Shampoo [1975]
Spine #947
Blu-ray
The Booklet
Eight-page wraparound featuring an essay by Frank Rich.
Commentary
None.
Conversation
Between critics Mark Harris and Rich.
Excerpt
From a 1998 appearance by producer, cowriter, and actor Beatty on The South Bank Show.
Extras Rating (0-40):
Shampoo [1975]
Spine #947
Blu-ray
Shampoo gives us a day in the life of George (Warren Beatty), a Beverly Hills hairdresser and lothario who runs around town on the eve of the 1968 presidential election trying to make heads or tails of his financial and romantic entanglements. His attempts to scrape together the money to open his own salon are continually sidetracked by the distractions presented by his lovers — played brilliantly by Goldie Hawn, Julie Christie, and Lee Grant (in an Oscar-winning performance). Beatty dreamed up the project, cowrote the script with Robert Towne, and enlisted Hal Ashby as director, and the resulting carousel of doomed relationships is an essential seventies farce, a sharp look back at the sexual politics and self-absorption of the preceding decade.
110 minutes
Color
Monaural
1:85:1 aspect ratio
Monaural
1:85:1 aspect ratio
Criterion Release 2018
Director/Writers
Written by Robert Towne and Warren Beatty.
Hal Ashby was 46 when he directed Shampoo.
Other Ashby films in the Collection:
#608: Harold And Maude (1971)
#864: Being There (1979)
The Film
Other Ashby films in the Collection:
#608: Harold And Maude (1971)
#864: Being There (1979)
The Film
A
Film Rating (0-60):
60
The ExtrasThe Booklet
Eight-page wraparound featuring an essay by Frank Rich.
Commentary
None.
Conversation
Between critics Mark Harris and Rich.
Excerpt
From a 1998 appearance by producer, cowriter, and actor Beatty on The South Bank Show.
Extras Rating (0-40):
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