Programmed November 2025

Directed by Howard Hawks

Featuring a new introduction by critic Imogen Sara Smith Both a consummate popular entertainer and an auteur so distinctive he inspired his own adjective, Howard Hawks built his movies around an exuberant, loose-limbed spirit of collaboration and improvisation, driven by the sparky banter and freewheeling interplay of charismatic stars at their best. In a career that spanned more than forty years, Hawks produced classics in nearly every genre—comedy ( His Girl Friday ), westerns ( Red River ), noir ( The Big Sleep ), gangster films ( Scarface ), action-adventure ( To Have and Have Not ), musicals ( Gentlemen Prefer Blondes )—which he branded with his robust humor, self-assured style, and abiding interest in friendship and group camaraderie among characters engaged in often daring and dangerous pursuits. Distilling the screen personas…

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