When he's not making scary movies, John Carpenter is tinkering with something seemingly out of character: a documentary.
The subject is his favorite director, Howard Hawks, who made such films as "Rio Bravo" and "The Big Sleep." He made his last film in 1970 and died in 1977."He was modern. He showed us modern America," Carpenter said. "He showed us what we should be and what we are, as opposed to a lot of the other directors who basically were romanticizing everything."
While some directors show off with camera work and other stylistic flourishes that the audience can't help but notice, Hawks was "an invisible stylist," Carpenter said.