Howard Hawks’s screwball classic looks and sounds sharper than ever thanks to this magnificent release.
Hawks’s thrilling, conflicted, and viscerally charged film gets a stellar assortment of extras from Viva Vision’s Imprint label.
This is a gorgeous, well-contextualized restoration of one of the greatest and most mercenary of all American comedies.
Hawks’s western arrives in a handsome dual-format package from Criterion including the long-unavailable theatrical cut of the film.
That multitude, with regard to films, is rather restricted to a specific kind of cinephilia, primarily an overt emphasis on Classical Hollywood.
Perhaps the weakest points of the book are in some of Meeuf’s prose, particularly when discussing masculinity.
Barry Forshaw has made a career out of studying the dames, pistols, machismo, and glistening city streets that define crime fiction.
The most creative periods for the movies seem to occur about every 30 years, usually triggered by the advent of some new technology.
How many readers have heard of Atlântida Cinematográfica?
The 60 shorts and features in this year’s Migrating Forms festival are not, in any ordinary sense, train movies.
It was good to get out of my element and visit a world I never even knew existed.
Other movies may have done talk this well, but I’ve never seen one do it better.
All invasion stories are allegorical, which makes this pair of movies a perfect vehicle to debut this series of essays.
Though the film may be a celebration of the 1950s consumerist status quo, Howard Hawks subverts conventional social mores.
Viewership is by nature bisexual.
Some of Hawks’s early films don’t have his distinctly dry personality, but Red Line is a helplessly personal movie about…impotence?
Although the plot and star have been recycled, El Dorado is still a gold standard of the western genre.
Perhaps no director is quite as under-the-radar termitic as Howard Hawks.
A disappointing set. If you want real camp, look to other volumes in the series.
You’d have to go to Barbara Billingsley for another jive session this enjoyable.