Aviation represents reckless abandonment of life at the highest level, and this lingering sense of doom is merely brushed upon in the Top Gun movies. For a sobering commentary on the fatalism of ...

The Criterion Collection’s release lets viewers revisit the director’s 1932 vision of ambition and violence in the Prohibition-era underworld.

Howard Hawks said John Wayne could feel when a movie scene was bad "Oh, yeah, Hawks and I had a few fights along the way," Wayne said, "but he accepted me as an expert, ...

Fall 2015. The World According to Howard Hawks. Richard Schickel has been a critic, writer, and director for over 50 years. In an excerpt from his latest book, Keepers: The Greatest Films—and Personal ...

Howard Hawks endearingly directed John Wayne off the Oscars stage. Wayne appeared at the 1975 Oscars, where he presented Hawks with an Honorary Award for his tremendous contributions to cinema.