Set on the day of the Presidential election in 1968, Shampoo operates as both a sharp critique of the excesses of America in the late 1960s and a commentary on the duplicity of society in the mid-1970s.
Directed by noted Hollywood liberal Hal Ashby and written by Robert Towne and star Warren Beatty, the film clearly hit the right note with audiences at the time becoming the third highest-grossing American film of 1975, surpassed only by Jaws and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
A former blacklistee, Grant had previously been nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar® in Ashby’s The Landlord. By the 1980s Grant would move into direction, making fiction and non-fiction films that reflected her on-going political and social concerns.
Cinema
Midnight Cowboy
Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman hustle their way through 1960s New York in this bittersweet classic of New Hollywood which remains the only X-rated film…
event
Look Who’s Back: The Hollywood Renaissance and the Blacklist One Hour Intro
Look Who’s Back invites you to re-think the youth-orientated image of the Hollywood renaissance, suggesting that we should not overlook the vital contribution of a…
Cinema
Uptight + intro
Following the assassination of Dr Martin Luther King, Cleveland’s black community is on a knife-edge, wondering who, if anyone, can be trusted.
Cinema
Claudine + intro
In an Oscar nominated performance, Diahann Carroll as Claudine, a black working-class mother struggling to make ends meet, offered an antidote to the testosterone driven…
HOME Film Pass
Experience every new release at HOME, any time, as many times as you like for just £18 a month.
Read more