Open Directory - Arts: Movies: Filmmaking: Directing: Directors: H: Hughes, John
See also: - Various writers reflect on the films of John Hughes, and remember what they evoked of their own teenage years - Peter Martin's favorite movie clips from John Hughes, who "mined his suburban Midwestern teenage territory thoroughly, leaving no awkward, class-conscious, embarrassing, financially slighted, pretty in pink, uncomfortable stone unturned." Includes links to related coverage. - Friends and colleagues remember John Hughes: Jon Cryer (Duckie from ‘Pretty in Pink’), Kevin Bacon (Jake from ‘She’s Having a Baby’), Bill Paxton (Chet from ‘Weird Science’), Jeffrey Jones (Principal Ed Rooney from ‘Ferris Bueller’), Alan Ruck (Cameron from ‘Ferris Bueller’), Lea Thompson (Amanda from ‘Some Kind of Wonderful’), Kelly Lynch (Grey from ‘Curly Sue’), Harold Ramis (director of Hughes-penned ‘Vacation’), Beverly D'Angelo (Ellen Griswold in ‘Vacation’), Daniel Stern (burglar in Hughes-penned ‘Home Alone’), Chris Columbus (director of ‘Home Alone’). - Photo gallery of scenes from twenty films of writer-director John Hughes. - Profile and filmography as writer, director, producer and actor. - Obituary and guest book for John Hughes, providing online condolences and tributes. - "In memory of Hughes and in honor of his still highly popular oeuvre, we pay tribute with these YouTube scenes." - Movie critic Peter Travers lights sixteen candles in honor of indelible John Hughes movie moments - Video clips of some of the best music moments in the teen films of John Hughes. - Profile of screenwriter, director and producer John Hughes includes filmography, photo galleries, and tomatometer lists and graphs. - Online talk show episodes (two parts) about the films of John Hughes. - Watch clips of Ferris Bueller's Day Off and other great movies from the legendary director John Hughes. Includes gallery of his muses then and now. - Collected news articles and photos of John Hughes and his films. - Extensive fansite about the films of John Hughes. - Collection of recent and archived news and commentary, photographs, multimedia and selected web resources about the film writer, director and producer. - Hank Stuever's remembrance of John Hughes and his films about teenagers. Includes related articles, Jen Chaney's Q&A with pen pal Alison Byrne Fields, photos and forum. - Blog entry by Alison Byrne Fields about John Hughes and their two year pen-pal relationship when she was a teenager. - Hyperlinked encyclopedia article about the writer, director and producer perhaps best known as the 'teen movie king' and the writer and producer of Home Alone. - Clips from a collection of films by John Hughes, set to 'Baba O'Riley' (Teenage Wasteland). - Tribute film made at the height of John Hughes's career when he was named 1991 Producer of the Year by the National Association of Movie Theater Owners. - Tribute playlist of music featured in the films of John Hughes, assembled by Matt Graves. - Susannah Gora, author of a book about John Hughes, provides a few of the reasons the late writer/producer/director inspired a touching Oscars tribute. (March 07, 2010) - Talking to the late John Hughes’s sons and Brat Pack favorites, David Kamp finds the writer-director was an amalgam of all his now classic characters. (March 01, 2010) - John Hughes captured "an adolescence to be learned from instead of suffered through and forgotten, where parents and their teenagers tried to do right, even though they couldn't always do good, and, in the end, understood that We Are Not Alone." (August 18, 2009) - Robert Nolan, retired Vice Chairman of Creative Services at Leo Burnett, reminisces about the years when the filmmaker worked for him. (August 11, 2009) - Alec Baldwin's remembrance of filmmaker John Hughes, especially his enthusiasm about his work and his humor. (August 08, 2009) - A look at some of John Hughes' best-loved movies, which have endured as cult classics. Includes link to his obituary. (August 07, 2009) - Actors, colleagues and friends remember John Hughes, personally and professionally. (August 07, 2009) - BBC 5 interview with Alison Byrne Fields about her blog describing her two-year pen pal relationship with filmmaker John Hughes. (August 07, 2009) - Film critic Roger Ebert remembers John Hughes and the international popularity of his films. (August 06, 2009) - "A great teen movie needs a soundtrack. Youth is captured better in song than on film, and behind every brain, athlete, basket case, princess or a criminal is a score. John Hughes knew how to find it." (August 06, 2009)
