Michael Laughlin

Michael Laughlin was born in 1938 in the USA He was a producer and writer known for Strange Invaders 1983 Strange Behavior 1981 and Mesmerized 1985 He was married to Leslie Caron He died on 20 October 2021 in Honolulu Hawaii USA In 2012 TwoLane Blacktop was chosen as one of only 20 films to be housed in the National Film Registry at the Library of Congress Hailed as a minimalist classic it was chosen as an example of the shortlived period of youthoriented films following Bonnie and Clyde The Graduate and Easy Rider in the late 1960s Producers such as Laughlin financed a spate of lowbudget innovative films by young New Hollywood filmmakers with influences ranging from playwright Samuel Beckett to European filmmakers Robert Bresson Jacques Rivette and Michelangelo Antonionicitation needed In 1984 Strange Invaders was nominated for Saturn Award for Best Screenplay and for Best Film at the Avoriaz Fantasy Film Festival