― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Thursday, 8 May 2003 02:42 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Thursday, 8 May 2003 02:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
― amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 8 May 2003 13:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 9 May 2003 20:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
― amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 9 May 2003 20:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 17:08 (twenty years ago) link
― Girolamo Savonarola, Sunday, 11 January 2004 19:26 (twenty years ago) link
any Land of the Pharaohs advocates? showing tnite in NYC Late Hawks series.
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 5 June 2008 18:58 (sixteen years ago) link
The Big Sky is a good one! just a notch below Red River etc.
― Dr Morbius, Sunday, 21 September 2008 17:45 (fifteen years ago) link
Molly & Andrew:
http://www.movingimagesource.us/articles/bringing-up-hawks-20080925
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 26 September 2008 13:59 (fifteen years ago) link
watched Only Angels Have Wings recently and couldn't get past what a douche cary grant's character was. i liked how the woman who starts off seeming like the main character disappears after the more interesting grant shows up, though.
― abanana, Monday, 29 September 2008 04:00 (fifteen years ago) link
El Dorado is a kind of underwhelming Rio Bravo remix. James Caan's wig is funny.
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 2 June 2009 16:25 (fifteen years ago) link
Following a screening of Anatomy of a Murder the other night, a friend and I wondered whether Jimmy Stewart had worked with more (generally-agreed-upon) great directors than any other actor from the studio era. Hawks' name came up, and we couldn't think of a film of his that featured Stewart. I took a quick scroll through Stewart's IMDB page and couldn't spot a Hawks film. Did I miss something small (or maybe even famous--I looked over the list quickly), or did they indeed never work together?
― clemenza, Tuesday, 2 June 2009 21:17 (fifteen years ago) link
can't think of one. Stewart did his westerns for other ppl, and HH's comedy style is a bit too wild for JS.
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 3 June 2009 00:55 (fifteen years ago) link
finally saw Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Marilyn very funny, Jane formidable, too bad about the plotty tiara stuff toward the end.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pthokb18V7U&feature=related
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Monday, 16 August 2010 04:49 (fourteen years ago) link
Allan Carr would have had his jaw wired shut twice over to have had a scene like that in one of his movies. Oh wait.
― Bali Eiffel Tower Hai (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 17 August 2010 00:56 (fourteen years ago) link
iirc hawks didn't actually direct any of the musical sequences?
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 17 August 2010 05:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Apparently that's correct. It was Jack Cole.
― Bali Eiffel Tower Hai (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 17 August 2010 13:12 (fourteen years ago) link
Wow. Here's an article about Jack Cole's work, particularly with Marilyn: http://articles.latimes.com/2009/aug/09/entertainment/ca-marilyn-monroe9
― Bali Eiffel Tower Hai (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 17 August 2010 13:27 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.filmreference.com/Writers-and-Production-Artists-Ch-De/Cole-Jack.html
― Bali Eiffel Tower Hai (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 17 August 2010 13:30 (fourteen years ago) link
Wow, he choreographed Gilda.
― Bali Eiffel Tower Hai (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 17 August 2010 13:33 (fourteen years ago) link
iirc hawks didn't actually direct any of the musical sequences?― Ward Fowler
Apparently that's correct. It was Jack Cole.― Bali Eiffel Tower Hai
That knowledge (and the scene Morbs posted) goes a long way toward explaining my love for GPB, despite being more or less indifferent to Hawks.
― 2 + 2 is vah-gi-nah (Eric H.), Tuesday, 17 August 2010 13:38 (fourteen years ago) link
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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ilkr0BWNQ0&feature=related
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
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
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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten years ago) link
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
“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
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
https://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2017/07/19/the-best-films-of-howard-hawks/
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 20 July 2017 02:17 (seven years ago) link
watched Rio Bravo for the first time the other day
Yes
― flappy bird, Saturday, 18 July 2020 05:51 (four years ago) link
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
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