Howard Hawks

Remebering how Hoop Dreams got hosed

MovingPictureBlog (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago

Steve Pond of The Wrap gets the story behind the story of an infamous Oscar snub.

The Big Sleep

BLOGGING MY LIFE - PAST - PRESENT AND MAYBE THE FUTURE! (Free subscription) | yesterday

Cover of The Big Sleep Image via Wikipedia This week's pub quiz in the local Sunday paper had a round in it entitled 'Sleepy Heads' - either the question or the answer is connected to 'sleep' so that's quite helpful in this round. Question 6 was 'In which 1946 film did Humphrey Bogart play private eye Philip Marlowe?' The answer is of course 'The Big Sleep'. The Big Sleep was a Warner movie from 1946...

Manny Farber's best films of 1951, #4: 'The Thing From Another World," directed (it is said) by Christian Nyby

Some Came Running (Free subscription) | yesterday

Previous installments here, here, and here. Farber: "Howard Hawks's science-fiction quickie directed by Christian Nyby; fast, crisp and cheap, without any progressive-minded gospel-reading about neighborliness in the atomic age; good airplane take-offs and landings; wonderful shock effects (the plants that...

Yesterday’s Films, Today’s Issues: Hatari!

TakePart Social Action Network™ (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009

Going into Howard Hawks’ Hatari! at BAM this past Wednesday night I had a feeling I would like it. I mean the film’s description is kind of amazing: “John Wayne has never been better than as the leader of a pack of big-game hunters on the African plains who tackle rhinoceroses, elephants, and giraffes to sell to American zookeepers. Hawks’ late-career masterpiece is funny,...

How many Schickels is an Altman worth?

Premium Hollywood (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009

Probably for the same reason that you don’t often see movie stars diss other movie stars for their acting, or directors critique helmers they think are less imaginative, film critics and writers tend to avoid making negative public comments about each other’s work. There are exceptions, however. Armond White of the New York Press has [...]

Modeling and All That Came After

New York Times (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009

After Léon Bing, a model in the 1960s, stopped modeling, she moved on to write widely admired books about troubled youths, and has now written a memoir.

• Modeling and All That Came After - International Herald Tribune

This is Not Top Gun: Only Angels Have Wings

Fresh Visual (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009

Marginally less homoerotic than Top Gun and riddled with Samwise Gamgee style loyalty, Howard Hawks’ Only Angels Have Wings is a claustrophobic adventure obscured by a haze of cigarette smoke. Planes crash, women become hysterical and Cary Grant takes charges and slaps bitches. Honestly, revisiting the classics is fun.

Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell: Bye Bye Baby

MilkandCookies.com (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009

Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell - Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) - Bye Bye Baby Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell, co-stars in the 1953 film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), sing Bye Bye Baby. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is a 1953 film adaptation of the 1949 stage musical, released by 20th Century Fox, directed by Howard Hawks and starring Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe, with Charles Coburn, Elliott Reid,...

Free Flick of the Day: His Girl Friday

Cinematical (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009

By now, you've had your fill of ghosts, goblins, and things that go bump in the night. You've cleaned up pumpkin guts, peeled off your skin along with your spirit gum prosthetics, hoping OxyClean gets fake blood stains out of your carpet. You need a movie with class, wit, and Cary Grant. You need Howard Hawks' classic His Girl Friday , which is playing right now on SlashControl. There's nothing I...

The final episode of Bob Burns' Hollywood Halloween has hit! THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD!

Ain't it Cool News (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009

Ahoy, squirts! here. The final episode of that great series documenting the talented king of geeks Mr. Bob Burns and the amazing Halloween shows he put on back in the '60s and '70s. This last episode is the longest of the bunch and focuses on the very last show Bob did, which also happens to be the biggest show he ever did... recreating the Howard Hawks THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD down to the smallest...

high noon movie

Zada News (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009

High Noon is an American 1952 western film directed by Fred Zinnemann and starring Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly. [1] This Western classic stars Gary Cooper as Hadleyville marshal Will Kane, about to retire from office and go on his honeymoon with his new Quaker bride, Amy (Grace Kelly). [2] HIGH NOON is a masterpiece that is [...]

Coalition for Life-Saving Cures, a national or international effort?

Sibby Online (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009

We have a petition drive in South Dakota that sounds a lot like this Nebraska group: In its October newsletter, Nebraska Right to Life called on allies to picket outside Varner Hall, the East Campus building where regents meet, urging...

Comfort of Friends

Hollywood Elsewhere (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009

Here's a tip-of-the-hat to whomever makes the in-flight video programming decisions for Continental Airlines. All airlines program contemporary crap (i.e., Land of the Lost, Transformers 2) but very few include classic films. I'm just saying it was enormously comforting to watch John Ford's The Grapes of Wrath and Howard Hawks' Bringing Up Baby during Wednesday's JFK-to-LAX flight. It mitigated an...

50 Movie Comedy Classics Disc 12

Walt at Random (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009

Spooks Run Wild, 1941, b&w. Phil Rosen (dir.), Bela Lugosi, Leo Gorcey, Bobby Jordan, Huntz Hall and the gang. 1:05 [1:03]. Since the sleeve says “Starring: Bela Lugosi” I didn’t realize until the opening credits came on that this is another East Side Kids flick, although it doesn’t use that name. And, even by the low [...]

Attention Span 2009 – Melanie Neilson

Third Factory/Notes to Poetry (Free subscription) | 12/10/2009

Stacy Doris | Cheerleader’s Guide to the World | Roof Books | 2006 Classic texts over the top Mayan, Tibetan, New Jerseyan for the reader-gamer. Also enjoyed re-reading Doris’ Knot, Conference, and Paramour recently. Manny Farber | Negative Space: Manny Farber on the Movies | Da Capo Press | 1998 “this exciting shake-up movie is made up in [...]