Howard Hawks

...Pictures) A cineaste who began his career as a reporter profiling such Hollywood icons as Howard Hawks, Orson Welles and Alfred Hitchcock, Peter Bogdanovich became a writer-director in his own right in the late 1960s. Bogdanovich will...

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...the model for McMurtry's "Thalia". Director Peter Bogdanovich intended the film as an homage to Howard Hawks' Red River '', set in Abilene, Kansas, and chose the name Anarene to evoke a correspondence. Anarene also appears in Bogdanovich's...

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...scene), complex sets and Joan Collins in full vampy queen mode. The film also comes with commentary by filmmaker-historian Peter Bogdanovich and old interview excerpts from Hawks. Rounding out the set is 1955's "The Prodigal" starring Lana...

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...to make conversations sound more realistic, with one character speaking before another was finished. Hawks told Peter Bogdanovich: "I had noticed that when people talk, they talk over one another, especially people who talk fast or who...

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...and is very clean. Peter Bogdanovich offers sporadic commentary (a sentence or two separated by several minutes of silence), but his anecdotes about Hawks and comments on his directing style are well worth hearing. Richard Schickel...

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...one. Long after both Hawks and Wayne had died, Peter Bogdanovich (who knew both) recalled in an interview that aEURoeThe last times I saw both Cary Grant and John Wayne, they both talked about Howard, about missing him.aEUR� While on...

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...runs, he says, five minutes without dialogue. And no wonder: Hawks used the business of a coin thrown into a spittoon in the silent film "Underworld" (1927), for which he wrote the scenario. And where might Hawks have found inspiration for...

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...deal with the United Artists distribution company. They commissioned the screenplay from Leigh Brackett, and asked Howard Hawks and Peter Bogdanovich to direct it, both refused the offer, but Bogdanovich recommended Robert Altman, who,...

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...brusquer world of Howard Hawks. The violence done James in this is forgivable-indeed, Cybill Shepherd's transformation of Daisy into a Hawks heroine is strangely successful-but as a result there is no real social conflict in the film, and...

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