Howard Hawks

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Just finished that latimes article. Extremely interesting.

Bali Eiffel Tower Hai (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 17 August 2010 13:45 (fourteen years ago) link

OK, one more link: http://artsmeme.com/tag/jack-cole/

Bali Eiffel Tower Hai (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 17 August 2010 14:07 (fourteen years ago) link

I'd read that HH didn't "direct" the numbers, but neither did a lot of the credited directors on big musicals (unless they had a background in such things).

So Eric, are you challenging Armond's assertion that GPB is "the most heterosexual" classic film musical?

http://www.nypress.com/article-21493-gentlemen-prefer-curves.html

kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 17 August 2010 17:07 (fourteen years ago) link

Thanks – now I've no interest in watching it.

Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 17 August 2010 17:08 (fourteen years ago) link

I ain't challenging Armond on shit.

2 + 2 is vah-gi-nah (Eric H.), Tuesday, 17 August 2010 17:25 (fourteen years ago) link

Soto, it's str8, not narrow.

kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 17 August 2010 18:10 (fourteen years ago) link

finally saw His Girl Friday, Jennifer Jason Leigh took her entire character in Hudsucker from the "without a quiver" line

LA river flood (lukas), Tuesday, 17 August 2010 18:12 (fourteen years ago) link

All an armond has to do to refute himself is watch Morbius's youtube link a few posts upthread.

Bali Eiffel Tower Hai (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 17 August 2010 18:26 (fourteen years ago) link

one year passes...

There's a moment in Only Angels Have Wings when Cary Grant breaks up a fistfight started by Thomas Mitchell. First he pulls him apart; then, failing, he punches him. But he almost immediately regrets it and within milliseconds is slapping his best friend conscious.

The sequence lasts a minute if that but exhibits so much of the physical grace Hawks is known for, and how Cary Grant understood film acting better than any actor in the so-called Golden Age.

lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 4 January 2012 00:25 (twelve years ago) link

one year passes...

Saw The Dawn Patrol (I think for the first time) yesterday, truly an archetypal flyboy piece -- homosocial love btwn Barthelmess and Fairbanks Jr def more physical than it was in the Errol Flynn remake.

Today The Egyptian!

eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 20 October 2013 13:19 (eleven years ago) link

isn't Hatari! screening somewhere in NYC this week?

the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 20 October 2013 13:19 (eleven years ago) link

duhhh, I mean Land of the Pharaohs. xp

yes, right after LotP. Have seen it in a theater before, probably aint doing another 150 mins today.

eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 20 October 2013 13:22 (eleven years ago) link

is it wort the watch? The auteurist affection has put me off for years

the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 20 October 2013 13:23 (eleven years ago) link

I remember liking it.

http://www.movingimage.us/films/2013/09/07/detail/the-complete-howard-hawks/

eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 20 October 2013 13:27 (eleven years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Ceiling Zero is a blast, must be in the top 3 of Cagney-O'Brien pics. The fast-paced comedy dialogue in the first half is the uncredited work of Morrie Ryskind, frequent writer for thr Marx Bros. Besides starting out like an aviation version of The Front Page, the working crew and airborne tragedy are clearly a dry run for Only Angels Have Wings.

Finally saw Come and Get It, from which HH was fired with Wyler finishing up. Edna Ferber all right, this is Giant with timber in place of oil (and an hour shorter thank God). Frances Farmer is almost all that, and she gets to pull taffy with Joel McCrea. Walter Brennan won an Oscar for stealing El Brendel's "YUMPIN' YIMINY!"

eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 3 November 2013 18:13 (ten years ago) link

saw it on video a decade ago and I couldn't distinguish the Wyler from the Hawks stuff; agree about Farmer.

Richard Brody said nice things about The Road to Glory but not out on DVD.

the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 3 November 2013 18:16 (ten years ago) link

Hawks said in his Bogdo interview that Farmer was the best performer he'd ever worked with.

the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 3 November 2013 18:17 (ten years ago) link

Wyler did the last 30 mins, more or less.

the movie suddenly becomes rather restrained, and before you know it, there's a garden party going on.

http://selfstyledsiren.blogspot.com/2007/03/strange-fame-of-frances-farmer-part-two.html

eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 3 November 2013 18:22 (ten years ago) link

The Big Sky is pretty hard to see, def one of my underrated faves; winds up the Astoria fest this Sunday night.

http://www.movingimage.us/visit/calendar/2013/11/10/detail/the-big-sky

eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 7 November 2013 15:27 (ten years ago) link

six months pass...

“Many westerns have been self-consciously conceived on an epic scale, but Howard Hawks’s Red River, in its deepest channels, actually feels like an ancient epic.”

http://www.criterion.com/current/posts/3176-red-river-the-longest-drive

images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Friday, 6 June 2014 05:20 (ten years ago) link

one year passes...

i'm thinking the first hour of Ball of Fire may be the best thing Brackett & Wilder ever wrote.

skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 30 December 2015 04:34 (eight years ago) link

This reminds of story I need to tell you about going many years ago to Lincoln Center to see discussion about auteur theory. Really.

Instant Karmagideon Time (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 31 December 2015 01:32 (eight years ago) link

one year passes...
two years pass...

watched Rio Bravo for the first time the other day

Yes

flappy bird, Saturday, 18 July 2020 05:51 (four years ago) link

three months pass...

I like Ball of Fire, but His Girl Friday and Bringing Up Baby are classics

Dan S, Wednesday, 11 November 2020 04:04 (three years ago) link

ctrl-f The Thing from Another World

Brad C., Wednesday, 11 November 2020 04:35 (three years ago) link

three months pass...

saw a bunch more of his films recently

The Big Sleep was incredibly convoluted, even on second viewing. Maybe it was a great film, but I don't know

Thought Red River and Rio Bravo were great, Hatari! was interesting but I wondered about its treatment of the wild animals

Dan S, Tuesday, 16 February 2021 01:16 (three years ago) link

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes was very enjoyable I thought

Dan S, Tuesday, 16 February 2021 01:31 (three years ago) link

Read Todd McCarthy's Hawks bio in January, this was maybe the most revelatory bit:

The final scene of what would’ve been Howard Hawks’ final film, When It’s Hot Play It Cool, written by the man himself circa 1976. pic.twitter.com/Iihua7IbVC

— Nicky Smith (@nickyotissmith) January 24, 2021

flappy bird, Tuesday, 16 February 2021 02:00 (three years ago) link

Dan, no one involved in the making of The Big Sleep had any idea what was going on either, the trick is to sit back and enjoy. Hawks thought plot didn't matter.

Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 16 February 2021 11:28 (three years ago) link

it was interesting enough that I want to see it again

Dan S, Wednesday, 17 February 2021 00:26 (three years ago) link

haven't seen Doris Day in any of her films with Rock Hudson yet, but I thought Paula Prentiss's loopy performance was really appealing opposite him in Hawks' "Man's Favorite Sport?"

Dan S, Saturday, 27 February 2021 00:54 (three years ago) link


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