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  1. 3 days ago · The Big Sleep, a 1939 novel by Raymond Chandler, appeared on the silver screen in 1946 as a film noir, directed by the great Howard Hawks. Howard Hawks at work The Hollywood hit, starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, featured a screenplay from the typewriter of William Faulkner, along with co-writers Leigh Brackett and Jules Furthman .

  2. 4 days ago · Howard Hawks created a certain type of female protagonist so distinct she is referred to as "The Howard Hawks Woman". Lars von Trier wears his obsessions on his sleeve. So did Alfred Hitchcock. So did John Cassavetes, Chantal Akerman, Ingmar Bergman. These directors are obsessed with women, and they made art out of it.

  3. 4 days ago · One hundred years have gone by since Columbia Pictures was founded: The Big Heath by Fritz Lang and His Girl’s Friday by Howard Hawks are two of the masterpieces restored by Sony Pictures Entertainment, selected by Venice among the many films of the Majors that have contributed to making the history of American cinema so great.

  4. 1 day ago · Cassandra Peterson ended up playing Elvira for decades, somewhat haphazardly accepting the success the role brought her. The Elvira’s Movie Macabre franchise achieved national success, spawning two movies, Elvira, Mistress of the Dark (1988), and Elvira’s Haunted Hills (2001), both considered critical and box office failures. A horror show ...

  5. 1 day ago · July 8, 2024. by Tobias Carroll. There’s a lot going on in The Rachel Condition, writer and filmmaker Nicholas Rombes ‘s followup to his excellent debut, The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing. In its broadest terms, it’s about a man sent to Detroit to infiltrate a countercultural group in search of a literary artifact.

  6. 2 days ago · This list of American films of 1936 compiles American feature-length motion pictures that were released in 1936. The Great Ziegfeld won Best Picture at the Academy Awards.

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  8. 2 days ago · Christian Nyby and Howard Hawks’s The Thing from Another World (1951), released by RKO Pictures, pits honest military men against a morally compromised scientist and an aggressive alien creature with plant-like features. The film ends with the iconic lines, “Watch the skies.