Red River
Action! If there’s one word associated with cinema, the tension of movie sets, and the focus of attention, it’s this one. Action is very often at the heart of popular cinema: Harold Lloyd hanging from the clock hands in Safety Last! (1923), Cary Grant threatened and strafed by a plane in North by Northwest (1959), Franka Potente gasping for air in Run Lola Run (1998)... Westerns, swashbuckler films, martial arts or adventure flicks, thrillers, all these genres rely on action—sometimes frenetic, sometimes meticulously measured.
From movies by Sergei Eisenstein to Gilles Carle, from John Ford to John Boorman and Werner Herzog, via Paul Verhoeven, Kathryn Bigelow, Park Chan-wook, Érik Canuel, and Nicolas Winding Refn, this series will take you through the full range of emotions, from laughter to thrills, from fear to satisfaction.
A pioneer in the settlement of the country, whose fiancée was killed, adopts a teenager who was saved from a massacre.
Howard Hawks
Born into a family of industrialists, Howard Hawks made his debut in Hollywood as a prop boy following a chance meeting with Victor Fleming during a car race. After a stint as a US Air Force instructor during World War I, he returned to cinema as soon as he could. Working first as a screenwriter, he transitioned to directing in the mid-1920s. He successfully navigated the shift from silent films to talkies, notably with detective movies and aviation stories that drew on his own experience. From the 1930s to the 1960s, Hawks mastered classic Hollywood genres to deliver some of their most iconic masterpieces. Among his most popular films are Scarface (1932), Bringing Up Baby (1938), His Girl Friday (1940), The Big Sleep (1946), Red River (1948), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), and Rio Bravo (1959). His frequent portrayals of strong, tough-talking female characters came to define what is known as the "Hawksian woman".
