5月31日
Gentlemen Prefer Hawks
Here's his latest, a discussion
concerning legendary auteur Howard Hawks, who would have been 113-years-old yesterday. After listing the filmmaker's remarkable pictures (some of them, personal favorites of mine), he ends his post asking the forum question: "Is Howard Hawks the greatest director ever?"
"The Dawn Patrol, The Criminal Code, Come and Get It, Twentieth Century and, of course, Scarface (now on DVD) are all terrific movies. But just look at that period from 1936 to 1948, starting with Come and Get It and ending with Red River. Not counting the uncredited jobs, has any other great director ever had a 12-year streak like that one? Maybe Ford. Maybe Bunuel. Maybe Altman. Maybe Godard. When a baseball player goes on a streak like that, one of the things said about him is that he’s 'unconscious.' But there’s nothing unconscious or automatic about any of the movies Hawks made in this period. And he still had The Big Sky, Monkey Business, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Hatari!, El Dorado and, most importantly, Rio Bravo still in his deck."
Read
the entire post, take a gander at the master's movies and enjoy the various answers to Hawks' greatness by many other terrific film writers and bloggers.
As for me, I'm still trying to answer the question, but looking at
Hawks' oeuvre is leading me to a possible yes.
--posted by Kim
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