Topic: Howard Hawks
The year's first masterpiece opens Friday. A Separation, the fifth feature of Iranian writer-director Asghar Farhadi (Fireworks Wednesday ...
I was never shown a script, and, besides, everything was usually changed on Mr. Hawks's yellow pad," says George Plimpton, near the beginning of...
Cinema has preserved the life of Marilyn Monroe 's body, keeping her eternally young and in the public eye. Most studies on Monroe have concentrated on her star persona, especially how her body was displayed for the pleasure of men (or the ...
French military liason/attache Henri Rochard (Grant) working with the Americans after the Second World War has become smitten with his ex-girlfriend and colleague (Sheridan). Cary Grant was on a bit of a role with this production as it was his seventh ...
This classic screwball comedy produced at RKO was one of the funniest films of the 1930's but flopped completely at the box-office. Grant appears prim and proper but not fashionable, in a suit, tie and dark framed nerd glasses as David ...
Politics is not my job. If I was a history teacher, the one thing I would want to get across is Newton's Third Law. The social force of the trusts' pushed until the reaction was inevitable and the result of Newton ...
Despite having never even receiving an Academy Award nomination, Howard Hawks is ranked among the very greatest of American filmmakers. His life and career is minutely examined in "Howard Hawks, The Grey Fox of Hollywood" (1997, Grove Press, 756 pages) by Todd ...
0 . Dear Mick LaSalle: When you do a review, do you judge the movie by what type of movies you like, or do you judge the movie by its merits?. ...
When you think of Howard Hawks, you think of screwball comedies (Bringing Up Baby), crime stories (Scarface) or westerns (Red River). And when you think of William Faulkner you probably think of intense, multi-layered southern gothic tales.
Remember when that ultra-violent gangster movie called?Scarface took a story straight out of the headlines about an immigrant gangster with the sexually precocious young sister and womanizing best friend working his way up through the criminal underworld to become the head ...
