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Sunday, July 7, 2019, 7:00pm - 9:30pm

Location:

Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge

URL:

https://library.harvard.edu/film/films/2019junaug/hawks.html#hatari

Event Description:

Gazette Classification: Film Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Film
Archive Cost: $9 - Regular Admission $7 - Non-Harvard Students,
Harvard Faculty and Staff, and Senior Citizens. Free for Harvard
students Contact Info: bgravely@fas.harvard.edu Link:
https://library.harvard.edu/film/films/2019junaug/hawks.html#hatari If
there's one film that crystallizes what critics generally mean when
they use the term "Hawksian," it's "Hatari!," the director's ambling,
good-natured, character-driven late film about a motley crew of safari
wranglers who catch and sell exotic wild animals in the African
desert. Like "The Dawn Patrol" or "Only Angels Have Wings," the film
focuses on the bonds formed within a group of men — and in this case,
two women — doing daunting physical work in a remote region, and, in
perhaps the most Hawksian trait of all, it jettisons plot to fixate
almost entirely on the schmoozing and leisure time that always at
least punctuates Hawks' storytelling. Here, we're immersed in the
day-to-day activities of Sean Mercer (John Wayne) and his team, a
rowdy bunch that includes a former NYC cabbie (Red Buttons), a Mexican
bullrider (Valentin de Vargas), and a sage old chap referred to only
as "The Indian," whose injury at the horns of an angry rhino
constitutes one of the film's few instances of narrative tension. In
the absence of high stakes, "Hatari!" relishes in gags and good humor,
much of it generated by the arrival of a beautiful Italian
photographer (Elsa Martinelli) who forces Sean to come to terms with
his past struggles with women. Long and digressive, the film features
some of Hawks' most enjoyable scene construction and character
building.

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Sunday, July 7, 2019 - 19:00 to 21:30

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