Tag: Red River
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‘Steppenwolf’ Director on How Hermann Hesse, John Ford, Samurai Stories Inspired Violent Kazakh Film, Teaser Debuts, Next Project Revealed (Exclusive)
There is a certain inevitability about a film inspired by Hermann Hesse’s novel “Steppenwolf,” first published in German in 1927, and two famous Westerns of the 1950s — John Ford’s “The Searchers,” and Howard Hawks’ “Red River.” The film, also called “Steppenwolf,” has its world premiere at International Film Festival Rotterdam in the Big Screen…
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This Classic Howard Hawks Western Gave Us a Very Different John Wayne
When imagining John Wayne, it’s hard not to picture him as a rip-roaring gun-slinging hero of the West (or at the very least the film’s protagonist), but in one of the legendary Howard Hawks’ most acclaimed pictures he took on a role of great complexity that saw him descending from hero to villain with Shakespearian…
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If you watch only one film … the greatest movies by the greatest directors
Some directors come with such huge back catalogues that it can be hard to know where to start. Enter our film critics, who suggest the best routes in to the works of some of our most prolific film-makersWhere once our movie choices were limited by physical availability, now we have apparently limitless uncurated digital content;…