Howard Hawks
American Movies are Not Dead: They are Dying
AT THE START of August 2012, the world was hanging on election results. Well, not the entire world. The electorate in this case was under 850, though that was nearly four times the number of people who had voted in this election the last time, in 2002. READ MORE >>
From time to time these days, one meets young people—film students even—who can’t quite place Gary Cooper. Come May 13, he will have been dead for 51 years; and on May 7—the day I’m writing—he was born in 1901, up in Montana. Which seems appropriate for one of our great cowboys or Westerners, except that after being raised first on a cattle ranch he spent seven crucial years of his childhood in Dunstable, Bedfordshire, in England. READ MORE >>
TNR Film Classics: 'Band of Outsiders' (September 10, 1966)
Jean-Luc Godard intended to give the public what it wanted. His next film was going to be about a girl and a gun—”A sure-fire story which will sell a lot of tickets.” And so, like Henry James’ hero in The Next Time he proceeded to make a work of art that sold fewer tickets than ever. What was to be a simple commercial movie about a robbery became Band of Outsiders. READ MORE >>
TNR Film Classics: 'The Big Sleep' (September 23, 1946)
The Mogul Empire
Irving Thalberg: Boy Wonder to Producer Prince By Mark A. Vieira (University of California Press, 504 pp., $34.95) READ MORE >>
Short Cuts
Robert Altman: The Oral Biography By Mitchell Zuckoff (Knopf, 592 pp., $35) READ MORE >>
