Hatari!
Part of the BAMcinématek series 1962: New York Film Critics Circle
Wed, Nov 4 at 6:15*, 9:30pm
*Intro by NYFCC member Joshua Rothkopf (Time Out)
Directed by Howard Hawks
With John Wayne, Red Buttons
(1962) 157min
John Wayne has never been better than as the leader of a pack of big-game hunters on the African plains who tackle rhinoceroses, elephants, and giraffes to sell to American zookeepers. Hawks’ late-career masterpiece is funny, tender, and thrilling, with some truly awesome scenes of capturing wild animals.
Chicago Reader on Hatari!
"This late masterpiece by Howard Hawks transcends every literary value in the book to become a brilliantly entertaining and insightful work of pure cinema." More
Time Out on Hatari!
"All in all, one of those rare films that genuinely constitutes a 'late masterpiece'." More