Search hard enough and you can find instances of fancy camerawork and editing among the scores of films that made up Howard Hawk’s five-decade career. But search for them you must, because this most ...

Despite being responsible for some of the finest movies in history in several genres, Howard Hawks never liked one of his ...

Howard Hawks is credited as director of several films that continue to be widely acclaimed, decades after his death. Hawks was born May 30, 1896, in Goshen. He died Dec. 26, 1977, in Palm Springs, ...

Thomas Butt is a senior writer. An avid film connoisseur, Thomas actively logs his film consumption on Letterboxd and vows to connect with many more cinephiles through the platform. He is immensely ...

John Carpenter's fondness for the films of Howard Hawks is no mystery. After all, the Halloween director dedicated four of his ten slots on his 2022 Sight and Sound list to Hawks movies, including ...

It is not too much to say that by the mid-1930s Warner Bros. was, of all things, an auteurist studio. William Wellman was in and out of the place, of course, and Raoul Walsh had come over from 20th ...

Death creeps in with the dawn in the expressionistic opening scene of Howard Hawks’s “Scarface” (1932). A streetlamp shines like the moon before going dim as a milkman makes a delivery. A yawning ...

Howard Hawks’s “Scarface” (1932) should, by all accounts, be an ungodly mess. The tale of public menace, ruthless ambition, and an American dream gone awry went through significant convolutions in ...

Thomas Butt is a senior writer. An avid film connoisseur, Thomas actively logs his film consumption on Letterboxd and vows to connect with many more cinephiles through the platform. He is immensely ...