Today from 18:00-21.00 hrs, the UvA Film Club will host their next screening in HVL/BuzzHouse’s Co-Working Space! This week's film is Only Angels Have Wings (dir. Howard Hawks, 1939), with an introduction by Parker Burrows.

Starry-eyed tourist Bonnie Lee takes a short layover in stormy port town Barranca and is quickly charmed by a community of adrenaline-junkie mail carrier pilots who live and die for the dangerous rush of their job. Only Angels Have Wings emblematizes the passionate signatures of iconic Hollywood filmmaker Howard hawks, one of the first directors to be designated the reverential label auteur by the future faces of the French New Wave. Hawks’ magical gift of seamlessly navigating between genres is on full display as the film erratically dances from Hays Code-defying romance to screwball comedy to melodramatic tragedy to high-octane suspense in just a few blinks of an eye. Just as deliriously impulsive are the characters, whose every action is ruled by the looming presence of the death drive: their swelling professions of passion, their sudden visions of the afterlife, and everything in between. Featuring star turns from Jean Taylor and Cary Grant and the breakout role for soon-to-be-superstar Rita Hayworth, Only Angels Have Wings presents an iconic era of Old Hollywood cinema that remains potent with danger and desire.