Hawks, Howard (1896-1977)
Considered one of the great film auteurs of the Hollywood Studio era, Howard Hawks directed forty-six films and has the distinction of being one of the few directors to work ...
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Howard Hawks (1896-1977) was perhaps the greatest director of American genre films. He made films in almost every American genre, and his films could well serve as among the very best examples and art...
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The idea for Rio Bravo (1959) began with Howard Hawks hating High Noon (1952). In 1962, Hawks explained this to me, referring to High Noon as that picture âin which Gary Cooper ran...
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Rome (dpa) - "At the Oscars it's the money that counts, in Venice
it's the film-makers and actors," Hollywood star Sean Penn waxed
lyrical about the Venice Film Festival som...
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Alain Resnais’ Last Year at Marienbad (1961), from a screenplay by Alain Robbe-Grillet, will be revived for the first time in decades at Film Forum for two weeks from Jan. 18 through Jan. 31 ...
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Femme Fatale, modeling for Gucci or wearing barely more than wings in a Victoria’s Secret fashion show. Her cheekbones and light eye color are reminiscent of a young Michelle Pfieffer, but sh...
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On the 100th anniversary of John Wayne's birth, the Duke still swaggers through the American psyche as not just an actor, but a patriot _ his centennial spawning fond remembrance, and perhaps a few...
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Among silent stars, Louise Brooks had the shortest career and the longest afterlife. Actually, it was a tiny career. From evocative, charming supporting parts in 1926, she became a strange sort of ...
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Among silent stars, Louise Brooks had the shortest career and the longest afterlife. Actually, it was a tiny career. From evocative, charming supporting parts in 1926, she became a strange sort of ...
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Has any honest-to-God movie star ever been given sleazier settings in which to shine than Pam Grier? With her stately bearing and voluptuous build, regal high cheekbones and proud, prominent nose, ...
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Has any honest-to-God movie star ever been given sleazier settings in which to shine than Pam Grier? With her stately bearing and voluptuous build, regal high cheekbones and proud, prominent nose, ...
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Read the title carefully; then read it again. Just about everything in this marvelous book has been weighed and assessed more than is usual. William Mann doesn’t settle for the obvious, the g...
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