Up Next in His Girl Friday

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  10:30

  Howard Hawks on HIS GIRL FRIDAY

  Howard Hawks on HIS GIRL FRIDAY

  This 2016 program—composed of excerpts from both an audio conversation between directors Howard Hawks and Peter Bogdanovich from 1972, illustrated with clips and stills, and a 1973 Richard Schickel interview with Hawks—presents the filmmaker’s reflections on casting HIS GIRL FRIDAY, changes to it...

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  25:08

  David Bordwell on HIS GIRL FRIDAY

  David Bordwell on HIS GIRL FRIDAY

  For film scholar David Bordwell, coauthor of “Film Art: An Introduction” (now in its eleventh edition), HIS GIRL FRIDAY represents the apotheosis of classical Hollywood storytelling. In this 2016 visual analysis, Bordwell illuminates the many elements of Howard Hawks’s movie that demonstrate his ...

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  08:51

  David Thomson and Molly Haskell on HI...

  David Thomson and Molly Haskell on HI...

  In this program from 2006, film critics David Thomson and Molly Haskell discuss the rapidfire dialogue and romantic comedy of HIS GIRL FRIDAY.