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A documentary filmography of Howard Hawks, including lengthy footage of Hawks himself discussing his films and many clips from his best-known pictures.
The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks
1973 Directed by Richard Schickel
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01 Jan 1973
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I'm writing a romcom right now, so I decided to revisit my perennial favorite sarcastic bastard, Howie Hawks. Here are some highlights from HAWKS ON HAWKS, the books of interviews between Joseph McBride and the Hawkster:
"There are about thirty plots in all of drama. They've all been done by very good people. If you can think of a new way to tell that plot, you're pretty good. But if you can do characters, you can forget about the plot. You just have the characters moving around. Let *them* tell the story for you, and don't worry about the plot. I don't."
"My dialogue is what Hemingway calls oblique dialogue. I call it three-cushion. Because you can hit it over…
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Came on disc 2 of Bringing Up Baby that I borrowed from the library.
Focused mainly on some interviews with Hawks interspersed with scenes from his movies and some narration. Good to hear the man speak himself.
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While one can't escape using a lot of film footage to document the world of movie director Howard Hawks, I felt it dominated this documentary too much. Hawks talks over the footage, but for some reason it doesn't get very interesting. At least not to me. That's however not a criticism on his films because after watching this there are a lot of Hawks movies I want to see now!
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A great little conversation with the man himself. Working through his catalog it really is amazing how much the great blockbuster directors of the 70s and 80s were just riffing on Hawks (by their own admission).
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I wish this was a lot more than just long clips and a few words from the man.
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The subject makes time to chat on camera between taking still photographs of his son's motocross event. I could listen to his voice all day. Claims his sets were completely democratic--anyone from the crew was allowed to come up to him and make a suggestion. If true--haven't read the McCarthy book in a while and don't have any reason to believe otherwise--a wonderful counterexample to autocratic/egomaniacal Hollywood. These Schickel docs are nothing to write home about but it's just really really nice to be in the company of the men who made movies for a short little while!
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When Peter Bogdanovich died he was rightly held up for not only his filmmaking but also his writing on various Hollywood legends. When Richard Schickel died he was sadly overlooked, which is a real shame because his "THE MEN WHO MADE THE MOVIES" series has so much great information in them.
Howard Hawks is the subject of this one and he pretty much goes down the list of all of his films. We hear so many great stories about their production as well as some fun stories that happened between him and various actors. SCARFACE, ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS, HIS GIRL FRIDAY, RED RIVER, RIO BRAVO, TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT and THE CROWD ROARS are just a few of…
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A great documentary about Howard Hawks. This is the story of one of the greatest American filmmakers of the classic era!
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