The Films of Guillermo Del Toro
AN ADVERTISING SUPPLEMENT TO THE WASHINGTON POST ISSUE 61 AFI SILVER THEATRE AND CULTURAL CENTER APRIL 19– JULY 2, 2013 SILENT CINEMA SHOWCASE H Howard Hawks, Part 2 H Guillermo del Toro H Olivier Assayas H Ten Years of Film Movement H L.A. Rebellion: Creating A New Black Cinema Tribute special premieres this June on TNT with an encore broadcast on Turner Classic Movies (TCM) FILM FESTIVAL PRESENTED BY Look for the full schedule on June 7 in The Washington Post AFI.com/Silver Contents Howard Hawks, Part 2 Howard Hawks, Part 2 ......................... 2 April 19—July 2 Special Engagements ..... 4, 7, 12, 14, 16 Howard Hawks was one of Hollywood’s most consistently entertaining directors, and one of the L.A. Rebellion: Creating most versatile, directing exemplary comedies, melodramas, war pictures, gangster films, films a New Black Cinema ................................ 5 noir, westerns, sci-fi thrillers, and musicals, with several being landmark pictures in their genre. The Films of Olivier Assayas ................... 6 Visionario: The Films of Hawks never won an Oscar—in fact, he was nominated only once, as Best Director for 1941’s Guillermo del Toro ................................ 8 Courtesy of Everett Collection SERGEANT YORK (he and Orson Welles both lost to John Ford that year)—but his critical stature grew over the 1960s and ‘70s, even as his career was winding down, and in 1975 the Ten Years of Film Movement ....................9 Academy awarded him an honorary Oscar, declaring Hawks “a giant of the American cinema AFI Life Achievement Award whose pictures, taken as a whole, represent one of the most consistent, vivid and varied bodies Retrospective: Mel Brooks ....................10 of work in world cinema.” Robert Gardner Documentaries ..............11 “I consider Howard Hawks to be the greatest American director.
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