Wednesday, June 27, 2007


69-Only Angels Have Wings - Director:Howard Hawks. Cast: Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Richard Barthelmess and Rita Hayworth.
"'one of the most intellectual filmmakers in America''
-Francois Truffaut-on Hawks
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"A good movie is three good scenes and no bad scenes."
-Howard Hawks-
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"Cary Grant was so far the best that there isn't anybody to be compared to him."
-Howard Hawks-
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"If one does not love the films of Howard Hawks, one cannot love cinema".
-Eric Rohmer-
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"(Hawks) is the greatest cinematic intelligence among American directors. He isn't a cinema addict, nor is he anguished or obsessed. Rather, he loves life in all its manifestations, and because of this harmony with life in general, he was able to make the two or three greatest examples of every genre of film (except perhaps comedy, in which you have Lubitsch etc.). To be specific: Hawks made the three best Westerns (Red River, The Big Sky, and Rio Bravo), the two best aviation films (Only Angels Have Wings and Air Force), and the three best thrillers (The Big Sleep, To Have and Have Not, and Scarface)."
-Francois Truffaut-
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"I don't think plot as a plot means much today. I'd say that everybody has seen every plot twenty times. What they haven't seen is characters and their relation to one another. I don't worry much about plot anymore."
-Howard Hawks-

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