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Doves Win. Remember The Hawks.
Filmbo's Chick Magnet —
Film critic Ed Howard will be hosting The Early Hawks Blog-a-Thon January 12th through 23rd at his invaluable resource Only The Cinema. The topic of the blog-a-thon is, of course, Howard Hawks's early films, specifically his holy grail of silents and the talkies before Bringing Up Baby. Time permitting, I will participate in the celebration in some shape or form. Ed gives the full rundown over on his blog. Also, Joe's recent comment about our mutual love affair with the new Beyoncé single reminded me that ...
LAMB Report #9
The Large Association of Movie Blogs —
... of the year. I'm so close now but I need a few more people. Could you post on LAMB asking if people would like to subscribe to my site? The link is here: http://feeds.feedburner.com/filmnoiroftheweek" * Ed Howard from Only the Cinema says: "I just want to announce my new blog-a-thon, which will run from January 12-23, 2009 and will focus on the early films of Howard Hawks. More details are available here: ...
Early Warning re "Early Hawks Blog-a-thon"
Bright Lights After Dark —
... FOB ("Friend of Bright Lights") Ed Howard writes in to announce: "my new blog-a-thon, which will run from January 12-23, 2009 and will focus on the early films of Howard Hawks. More details here. I'm announcing it far in advance to give time for the word to spread and for those who are interested to get ahold of the films if they haven't seen them before. I would really appreciate a mention at the Bright Lights blog to get the word out to any Hawksians who might be interested in participating or at least reading." ...
Spreading the Word:The 'Early Hawks Blog-a-thon'
Illusion Travels By Streetcar —
... All the relevant information on this Blog-a-thonic bacchanal can be found here, but essentially what we're looking at is an event set to transpire over the course of two weeks (January 12th to the 23rd), and focused exclusively on those films directed by Howard Hawks prior to his 1938 celebration of human chaos, Bringing Up Baby; films such as Today We Live and Tiger Shark and Barbary Coast (named here solely to link this post with the above image, taken during its production). And even though I know it's the Kiss of Death in ...
Spread of Activation*
Cinema Styles —
... did a post on remakes recently and brought up Scarface. I didn't like that remake much but I did like the original and soon someone will be writing about it because it's an early Howard Hawks film and Ed Howard is doing the early Howard Hawks blogathon in January (details here). But here's the thing. I know as a bonafide classic Hollywood buff and a thirties movie lover I'm not supposed to say this but... I never really cared for Paul Muni much. I thought he was a good actor and I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang is one of my favorites, and one ...
Howard Hawks Blogathon
Thompson On Hollywood —
... For Howard Hawks obsessives, there's a Hawks Blogathon coming up from January 12-23 that will focus on his early films. More details here. It's a nice excuse to take the time to catch up on the early Hawks oeuvre, from Scarface to Twentieth Century. The cut-off is 1936's Bringing Up Baby. ...
