Howard Hawks: The People’s Auteur Director

CINEMA SNOBBERY FOR MOVIE FANS

There’s a tendency for civilians (people who are not film fanatics) to be skeptical when they read about film technique, and to dismiss all the palaver as a pretentious focus on “camera angles.”

Regular people like movies because they like the people in them, and they think “camera angles,” lovely scenery, and other arty fancypants tricks don’t have mu…