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In the Land of the Auteurists: Late Howard Hawks versus Prime Julien Duviver
The House Next Door — ... In his book on Hawks, Robin Wood made an impassioned defense of the generally despised Red Line, and it’s an entirely convincing defense unless you see the film itself. Wood goes through most of Hawks’s movies and analyzes them from an ideological point of view, protesting that he cannot explain or replicate the sensual/visceral experience of the films, which is why he can conclude that Monkey Business (1952) is a more successful movie than Bringing Up Baby (1938). Show those films back to back and it’s easy to see that Baby is ...

Books on Film: A List
TCM's Classic Movie Blog — ... ), and goshdarnit if he doesn’t have a cantakerously careening essay on Howard Hawks. On Scarface , and also not a bad description of his writing: “The image seems unique because of its moody energy: it is a movie of quick-moving actions, inner tension, and more angularity per inch of screen than any street film in history.”  (and is Amazon lying to me or is this out of print? A tragedy, if so, despite its Kindle availability) Hawks_Robin Wood 3. Howard Hawks , by Robin Wood (1981, 2006):  Of all the words I’ve consumed about Howard Hawks, these were the first and the most ...