Howard Hawks: American Artist
Howard Hawks: American Artist
Howard Hawks: American Artist
1997
Documentary
TV Movie
1h 0m
This British-produced documentary offers an insightful portrait of American filmmaker Howard Hawks, whose remarkable five decade long career encompassed some of Hollywood's best loved movies. Hawks' personal and professional life is recalled by such friends and co-workers as Todd McCarthy, Lauren Bacall, Peter Bogdanovich, Angie Dickinson, William Friedkin and Walter Hill. It is also chronicled via archival interviews and clips from his best known films. (Sandra Brennan, Rovi)
Directed by:
Kevin Macdonald
32 total credits
Kevin Macdonald was born in Glasgow, Scotland, the grandson of the Hungarian-born English filmmaker Emeric Pressburger, and educated at Oxford University. He began his career with a biography of his grandfather, The Life and Death of a Screenwriter, which he turned into the documentary The Making of an Englishman. After making a series of biographical documentaries, Macdonald directed One Day in September, which won an Academy Award for Best Documentary.
Writer:
Todd McCarthy
7 total credits
Todd McCarthy has 7 credits at Criticker, including: Visions of Light, Filming 'The Trial', Preston Sturges: The Rise and Fall of an American Dreamer and Forever Hollywood
Starring:
Angie Dickinson
73 total credits
Angie Dickinson has 73 credits at Criticker, including: Pay It Forward, Rio Bravo, Dressed to Kill, Point Blank and Ocean's Eleven
71 total credits
Lauren Bacall has 71 credits at Criticker, including: Howl's Moving Castle, Misery, Dogville, The Big Sleep and Murder on the Orient Express
103 total credits
James Caan has 103 credits at Criticker, including: The Godfather, Elf, Misery, Dogville and Get Smart
118 total credits
Bogdanovich is part of the wave of "New Hollywood" directors, which included William Friedkin, Brian De Palma, George Lucas, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Michael Cimino, and Francis Ford Coppola. His most critically acclaimed film is The Last Picture Show (1971).
36 total credits
A student of London's International Film School, Michael Mann began his career in the late 70s, writing for TV shows like "Starsky and Hutch" (1975). He directed his first film, the award-winning prison drama The Jericho Mile (1979) (TV), in 1979. He followed that in 1981 with his first theatrical release, Thief (1981) starring James Caan as a safecracker who falls under the spell of the mob. He followed with The Keep (1983), an adaptation of F. Paul Wilson's novel about a mysterious force within a Nazi fortress. He hit it big in 1984, when he produced and created the long-running TV series "Miami Vice" (1984), which made Don Johnson a household name. He followed that up in 1986 with a disastrous, lesser-known TV series, "Crime Story" (1986), and the superb thriller Manhunter (1986) a precursor of The Silence of the Lambs (1991). He spent the next few years involved in television, directing films like L.A. Takedown (1989) (TV) and producing films like the Emmy-winning "Drug Wars: The Camarena Story" (1990). In 1992, he returned to feature film with the box-office hit The Last of the Mohicans (1992), which starred Daniel Day-Lewis and Madeleine Stowe.
46 total credits
Stephen Arthur Frears is an English film director. Frears has directed a number of successful films in both Britain and America, including The Hi-Lo Country (1998), High Fidelity (2000), Dirty Pretty Things (2003) and Mrs Henderson Presents starring Judi Dench and Bob Hoskins. His film, The Queen (2006), was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture...(Wikipedia)
55 total credits
Friedkin's mother was an operating room nurse. His father was a merchant seaman, semi-pro softball player and ultimately sold clothes in a men's discount chain. He never earned more than $50/week in his whole life and died indigent. Friedkin became infatuated with Orson Welles after seeing Citizen Kane (1941). He went to work for WGN TV immediately after graduating from high school where he started making documentaries, one of which won the Golden Gate Award at the 1962 San Francisco film festival. In 1965, he moved to Hollywood and immediately started directing TV shows.
51 total credits
Walter Hill has 51 credits at Criticker, including: Aliens, Alien 3, The Warriors and 48 Hrs.
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Directed by:
Kevin Macdonald 32 total credits
Kevin Macdonald was born in Glasgow, Scotland, the grandson of the Hungarian-born English filmmaker Emeric Pressburger, and educated at Oxford University. He began his career with a biography of his grandfather, The Life and Death of a Screenwriter, which he turned into the documentary The Making of an Englishman. After making a series of biographical documentaries, Macdonald directed One Day in September, which won an Academy Award for Best Documentary.
Writer:
Todd McCarthy 7 total credits
Todd McCarthy has 7 credits at Criticker, including: Visions of Light, Filming 'The Trial', Preston Sturges: The Rise and Fall of an American Dreamer and Forever Hollywood
Starring:
Angie Dickinson 73 total credits
Angie Dickinson has 73 credits at Criticker, including: Pay It Forward, Rio Bravo, Dressed to Kill, Point Blank and Ocean's Eleven
71 total credits
Lauren Bacall has 71 credits at Criticker, including: Howl's Moving Castle, Misery, Dogville, The Big Sleep and Murder on the Orient Express
103 total credits
James Caan has 103 credits at Criticker, including: The Godfather, Elf, Misery, Dogville and Get Smart
118 total credits
Bogdanovich is part of the wave of "New Hollywood" directors, which included William Friedkin, Brian De Palma, George Lucas, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Michael Cimino, and Francis Ford Coppola. His most critically acclaimed film is The Last Picture Show (1971).
36 total credits
A student of London's International Film School, Michael Mann began his career in the late 70s, writing for TV shows like "Starsky and Hutch" (1975). He directed his first film, the award-winning prison drama The Jericho Mile (1979) (TV), in 1979. He followed that in 1981 with his first theatrical release, Thief (1981) starring James Caan as a safecracker who falls under the spell of the mob. He followed with The Keep (1983), an adaptation of F. Paul Wilson's novel about a mysterious force within a Nazi fortress. He hit it big in 1984, when he produced and created the long-running TV series "Miami Vice" (1984), which made Don Johnson a household name. He followed that up in 1986 with a disastrous, lesser-known TV series, "Crime Story" (1986), and the superb thriller Manhunter (1986) a precursor of The Silence of the Lambs (1991). He spent the next few years involved in television, directing films like L.A. Takedown (1989) (TV) and producing films like the Emmy-winning "Drug Wars: The Camarena Story" (1990). In 1992, he returned to feature film with the box-office hit The Last of the Mohicans (1992), which starred Daniel Day-Lewis and Madeleine Stowe.
46 total credits
Stephen Arthur Frears is an English film director. Frears has directed a number of successful films in both Britain and America, including The Hi-Lo Country (1998), High Fidelity (2000), Dirty Pretty Things (2003) and Mrs Henderson Presents starring Judi Dench and Bob Hoskins. His film, The Queen (2006), was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture...(Wikipedia)
55 total credits
Friedkin's mother was an operating room nurse. His father was a merchant seaman, semi-pro softball player and ultimately sold clothes in a men's discount chain. He never earned more than $50/week in his whole life and died indigent. Friedkin became infatuated with Orson Welles after seeing Citizen Kane (1941). He went to work for WGN TV immediately after graduating from high school where he started making documentaries, one of which won the Golden Gate Award at the 1962 San Francisco film festival. In 1965, he moved to Hollywood and immediately started directing TV shows.
51 total credits
Walter Hill has 51 credits at Criticker, including: Aliens, Alien 3, The Warriors and 48 Hrs.
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