Hawks are not easy to domesticate. Some of them refuse to “break”. They would rather starve themselves to death before giving up their freedom. Julian Goldberger, the director of ‘The Hawk Is Dying’ isn’t ready to be domesticated either. Hopefully he will never be.
On shelves in comic book stores today is Guy Ritchie’s Gamekeeper, the latest series on Virgin Comics “Director’s Cut” label – comic book created by filmmakers – which has already released titles such as John Woo’s Seven Brothers (Woo was a defining force in the highly influential Hong Kong action cinema with film’s like Hard Boiled and The Killer) and Shekhar Kapur’s Snake Woman (Kapur directed The Four Feathers and the upcoming The Golden Age).
For those who need a reminder, Denys Arcand is the French-Canadian filmmaker who made memorable films such as The Decline of the American Empire, Jésus de...