The Sheila Variations (Free subscription) | yesterday
"Movie prop" plane found - and featured on Antiques Roadshow. The guest on the show, who had found the plane, describes coming across it at a swap meet - and the guy selling it said it was from a movie...
scanners (Free subscription) | yesterday
Do you recognize this Barranca Airways plane? I hope so. Because it's from one of my top-five favorite movies of all time (and one of the great classics of American cinema). A friend sent me this picture, from an...
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Blu-Ray Review: Optimum bring Snake Plissken to Blu-ray, and John has an early look - "that's Mr White, to you"...
Coffee Coffee and More Coffee (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
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...
Blog THIS, Pal! (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
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, although really isn't a...
Coffee Coffee and More Coffee (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
Busu Yoshihiro Nakamura - 2005 Tartan Asia Extreme Region 1 DVD I only have a couple more titles to go before I have seen every Tartan Asia Extreme DVD available from the Denver Public Library. The Booth is a...
LIBERTAS (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
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 [...]
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
Arts & entertainment: Frank Darabont's latest film is as scary as hell. He tells John Patterson why people are the real horror story
SpoutBlog (Free subscription) | 06/25/2008
Lauren Wissot recommends five films for celebrating Stonewall in sexual style.
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 06/13/2008
Simon Louvish's elegantly exhaustive study of Cecil Blount DeMille (1881-1959) examines the actors life largely though through his 70 movies, completed during a 42-year career.
MND/BlogWonks: Your Alternate Daily (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
The Left has always treasured High Noon as among its finest allegories. Written by the soon-to-be blacklisted Carl Foreman, who was targeted by the House Un-American Activities Commission while the film was being made (and later moved to England), it was later denounced as “un-American” by John Wayne, who along with Howard Hawks made Rio [...]
GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008
"What Howard Hawks did best - whichever studio signed the check (over 44 years, he worked for them all), whatever genre he operated in (ditto) - was clear space for his actors and encourage them to really react to...
The New York Observer (Free subscription) | 06/03/2008
“Late Hawks” is the provocative title of a retrospective at Anthology Film Archives (32 Second Avenue) that covers the later, more neglected movies of Howard Hawks (1896-1977), plus a few earlier ringers like Red River (1948) and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953). Hawks’ career antedated the talkies—he made the silents The Road to Glory and Fig Leaves , both in 1926—and extended all the way to Rio Lobo...
The Village Voice (Free subscription) | 06/03/2008
Films from the end of a great career (By Nick Pinkerton)
News & Information (Free subscription) | 06/03/2008
The director Howard Hawks (1896-1977) is, by mainstream critical consensus, seated alongside John Ford in the pantheon of American-born auteurs. In a career that produced nearly 50 films in as many years,……Read more
