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To Have and Have Not : atmosphere (The Sheila Variations)

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 02:26:02 GMT

This is a continuation of my post about Only Angels Have Wings and the rich atmosphere set up in the first 10 minutes. Now in To Have and Have Not, another Hawks movie, we're in Martinique. The hotel, the bars,...

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Film critic Manny Farber dies (Variety.com)

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:35:03 GMT

Known for his contrarian opnions and sometimes seen in the same category as Pauline Kael and James Agee, he was the first to champion the works of tough-guy American directors including Howard Hawks, Don Siegel and Samuel Fuller. Among the publications he wrote for were the New Republic, the Nation, the New Leader, Film Culture, Film Comment and Artforum.

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Manny Farber, 91; iconoclastic film critic and artist (LA Times)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT

Manny Farber, an iconoclastic stylist who achieved prominence in two careers -- as a painter of abstract canvases and still-lifes and as a film critic admired for his canny, muscular writing and advocacy of such directors as Sam Fuller, Howard Hawks and R.W. Fassbinder -- has died. He was 91.

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Film Critic Manny Farber, 91 (ArtsJournal)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:08:08 GMT

"During the '40s and '50s his jazzy movie commentaries were published in The Nation, The New Republic and Commentary. Wordplayful and alert to form, these essays struck readers attuned to Swing as a kind of literary Be-bop. He sang of undersung filmmakers like Howard Hawks and Don Siegel at the same time fledgling French critics Francois Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard were doing same in...

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"The Film Critic's Film Critic" Manny Farber: 1917 - 2008 (Ain't it Cool News)

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:50:38 GMT

... to the laborious creation of "masterpiece art". The heroes of the piece are Raymond Chandler, Howard Hawks, Laurel and Hardy and John Wayne's "hoboish" performance in THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE. It's a jarring, essential read even today.But Farber was so much more than this essay (which is reprinted in Phillip Lopate's AMERICAN MOVIE CRITICS and Farber's own collection NEGATIVE...

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Wonderful, In A Loathesome Sort Of Way: An Appreciation Of ‘His Girl Friday’ (Film School Rejects)

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 22:01:19 GMT

Every Sunday, Film School Rejects presents a film that was made before you were born and tells you why you should like it. This week, Old Ass Movies presents: His Girl Friday (1940) Welcome to the film of the future. It was made in 1940. You may know His Girl Friday as the Howard Hawks comedy (based on the play , The Front Page ) with Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell and steel-spring-snappy...

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The Thing From Another World - 2:00am (ABC TV)

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:54:46 GMT

The Thing From Another World2:00am Wednesday, 13 Aug 2008 Repeat PG Scientists in the Arctic discover a spacecraft and accidentally thaw out its frozen pilot. Classic from Howard Hawks with an eerie score that has been called the prototype for all alien invasion films. CAST: James Arness, Kenneth Tobey

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Famous Firsts: Red River (1948) (Ferdy on Films, etc.)

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:34:15 GMT

Famous Firsts Focusing on the debut feature work of famous, and infamous, figures of film Red River (1948) Director: Howard Hawks Debut film of: Montgomery Clift, actor By Roderick Heath A beautiful, young actor first appears on the screen in...

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Costly fuel brings dozens of airlines to their knees (International Herald Tribune)

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 17:31:41 GMT

... the Venezuelan airline whose predecessor's daring flights over the Andes inspired a 1939 movie by Howard Hawks, ran into severe financial difficulties, a casualty of business regulations that tied its hands while fuel and other costs inexorably rose. It now operates a handful of domestic flights.Descended from the airline founded by the French in 1929 to carry mail across the Atlantic,...

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Ask Parky: Sherlock Holmes, long titles and Fox (The Guardian)

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 23:06:19 GMT

With the introduction of CinemaScope in 1953, the front office decided that the logo needed to be more imposing and new graphics were commissioned for Howard Hawks' How to Marry a Millionaire, to which Newman appended the "CinemaScope extension", which became the standard following another Marilyn Monroe vehicle, Henry Hathaway's River of No Return (1954). This revision, which was conducted...

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BACALL NOT (Word Around the Net)

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 18:06:00 GMT

"Sometimes stars really should just fade away, before too many good memories get ruined." One of my favorite movies of all time is To Have and Have Not, a retelling of a Hemingway story of that name that ended up better than the original (director Howard Hawks rightly called it a piece of junk). Hemingway helped with writing the screenplay and William Faulkner finished it, the result...

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"Calling Barranca!" (The Sheila Variations)

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:12:26 GMT

So as I was walking away he just said, "Oh, the only other thing I know about it is is that Cary Grant starred in the movie." And as soon as he said that, I knew exactly what movie it was. I knew it was "Only Angels Have Wings." And I knew that it was a Howard Hawks film. I knew that Jean Arthur and Cary Grant and Rita Hayworth were in it. But what I couldn't remember was, in the story...

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"Calling Barranca. Calling Barranca." (scanners)

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:53:30 GMT

... or that title, did not match up to any movie that I was familiar with." Yep. It's a plane from Howard Hawks' 1939 "Only Angels Have Wings" (my choice, alongside Hitchcock's "North By Northwest" and maybe George Cukor's "Holiday," for the most sheerly entertaining movie I've ever seen -- and it doesn't hurt that all three are masterpieces). Indeed, it appears to be Joe Souther's plane!...

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Escape From New York (DVD Times)

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:05:58 GMT

It's pure prejudice but I don't trust a film buff who doesn't love John Carpenter. Sure, he's gone off the boil with Cigarette Burns being his only decent showing for almost 15 years, but the man made Halloween, The Thing, They Live, Starman, and he proved that entertainment could be made with intelligence. Like his hero, Howard Hawks, his films guaranteed their quality by boasting his...

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Mitchum in the Middle (Coffee Coffee and More Coffee)

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 05:04:33 GMT

Man in the Middle Guy Hamilton - 1963 20th Century Fox Region 1 DVD El Dorado Howard Hawks - 1966 Paramount Region 1 DVD A couple of weeks ago, I read Lee Server's biography of Robert Mitchum. If there...

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Public Domain Drive-In: His Girl Friday (Blog THIS, Pal!)

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 02:49:00 GMT

Howard Hawks , in my not-so-humble-opinion, is the greatest director you have never heard of. Unlike modern times, where a director's defined by genre, Hawks pretty much mastered many - the romantic comedy, noir mysteries, Westerns, and...well, made them his own. I could name multiple masterpieces which Hawks has directed, but I'd like to call your attention to a film that,...

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The Booth (Coffee Coffee and More Coffee)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:48:25 GMT

... who are associated with specific genres. The western isn't just pantheon directors John Ford or Howard Hawks, but also John Sturges, Anthony Mann, Henry Hathaway and even William Whitney. The MGM musical is not just Vincente Minnelli and Stanley Donen, but also Charles Walters, George Sidney and Don Weis. The Italian western is not just Sergio Leone, nor is Dario Argento the only...

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Del Toro Adapts Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness (LIBERTAS)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:06:29 GMT

Apparently Guillermo Del Toro will be taking a crack at adapting H.P. Lovecraft’s extraordinary novel, At the Mountains of Madness. At the Mountains of Madness happens to be one of my favorites, and is sort of the ur-text for a lot of later science fiction like Howard Hawks’ The Thing, or Ridley Scott’s Alien. Two [...]

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'The human race is insane' (The Guardian)

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:13:05 GMT

... as he works on a new painting, the camera focuses on a poster for John Carpenter's 1982 remake of Howard Hawks and Christian Nyby's The Thing (1951), showing a man in an icy landscape wearing a parka with a large hood, from which emanates a blinding white light that completely obscures his face. The relationship between those two movies encapsulates everything that Darabont is doing...

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Top Hot Pride Pics (SpoutBlog)

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:02:10 GMT

... Mountain rightly pointed out, that film was merely stating the obvious. I’m going to go with Howard Hawks’ Red River (1948) just because Monty Clift is hotter than Ernest Borgnine (okay, so William Holden is in Peckinpah’s outlaw-bonding flick, too, but still, who wants to jack off to Bill Holden with Ernest Borgnine in the room') That Clift was gay in real life is almost beside the...

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