Movies from Ethan Hawke

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

Fifth and final movie in the Indiana Jones franchise
Ethan Hawke
Actor
nothing beats a drive-in movie theater… a blast to see the new Indiana Jones movie outdoors!
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Summer of Soul (...or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

During the same summer as Woodstock, over 300,000 people attended the Harlem Cultural Festival, celebrating African American music and culture, and promoting Black pride and unity. The footage from the festival sat in a basement, unseen for over 50 years, keeping this incredible event in America's history lost—until now.
Ethan Hawke
Actor
Summer of Soul is hands down the best documentary that’s been made in a looooong time. Sending all my respect to Questlove for his accomplishment last night at the Academy Awards. So well deserved and if you haven’t yet, you gotta watch his phenomenal film.
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Lord of War

Yuri Orlov is a globetrotting arms dealer and, through some of the deadliest war zones, he struggles to stay one step ahead of a relentless Interpol agent, his business rivals and even some of his customers who include many of the world's most notorious dictators. Finally, he must also face his own conscience.
Ethan Hawke
Actor
and another movie I did called LORD OF WAR - a lot of people haven't seen LORD OF WAR, but to my mind it's a brilliant movie. I have a small part in it, but Nic Cage is phenomenal, and so is the writing.
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4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days

Two college roommates have 24 hours to make the ultimate choice as they finalize arrangements for a black market abortion.
Ethan Hawke
Actor
Have you seen any Romanian movies? Which is your favorite? Romania is producing some of the most exciting works of cinema happening today. 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days is one of the most riveting movies made anywhere in the world in my lifetime, not just my favorite Romanian movie.
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Lessons from an American Stoic

"This is a beautiful book, full of ideas that could help restore America’s genius for freedom and promise.” — Thomas Moore, New York Times bestselling author of Care of the Soul A lifelong Emerson lover, teacher, and spiritual seeker reveals how American philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson’s twelve essential teachings hold the answer to living an authentic and fulfilling life, one that is in harmony with our souls.In this wise, illuminating book, award-winning author Mark Matousek reveals how Emerson’s timeless wisdom can help us with the problems we’re facing today. America’s ‘original Stoic’ confronted many of the issues before us, from polarization to fake news, from crooked politicians and rampant materialism, to the scourge of racism.Matousek explains that Emerson’s path of self-reliance can radically improve your quality of life. The mentor and friend of Henry David Thoreau, Emerson (aka the Oracle of Concord) was America’s first self-help author, and his nation’s conscience for half a century. Like the Stoics before him, he emphasized self-knowledge and mindfulness as paths to happiness; also, self-reliance, cooperation, non-conformity, originality, adaptability, and receptiveness.As Americans are once again discovering the power of Stoicism, Matousek shows why Emerson’s vision is precisely the medicine we need today. The principles of Waldo’s philosophy are universal and require no spiritual faith to put into practice.Each person creates her own realityObstacles are teachers in disguiseYour character is your destinyWonder and awe are the keys to the kingdomNonconformity is the greatest virtueNature is the doorway to GodLife without self-knowledge is not worth livingEmerson encourages us to throw-off conventions and platitudes, explore ourselves in depth, tell the truth about what we find there, and awaken to our greatest potential.
Ethan Hawke
Actor
if you’re looking for a great read, I enjoyed this.
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Wandering Stars

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The Pulitzer Prize-finalist and author of the breakout bestseller There There ("Pure soaring beauty."The New York Times Book Review) delivers a masterful follow-up to his already classic first novel. Extending his constellation of narratives into the past and future, Tommy Orange traces the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Indian Industrial School through three generations of a family in a story that is by turns shattering and wondrous."For the sake of knowing, of understanding, Wandering Stars blew my heart into a thousand pieces and put it all back together again. This is a masterwork that will not be forgotten, a masterwork that will forever be part of you.” —Morgan Talty, bestselling author of Night of the Living RezColorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion prison castle,where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity by Richard Henry Pratt, an evangelical prison guard who will go on to found the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, an institution dedicated to the eradication of Native history, culture, and identity. A generation later, Star’s son, Charles, is sent to the school, where he is brutalized by the man who was once his father’s jailer. Under Pratt’s harsh treatment, Charles clings to moments he shares with a young fellow student, Opal Viola, as the two envision a future away from the institutional violence that follows their bloodlines.In a novel that is by turns shattering and wondrous, Tommy Orange has conjured the ancestors of the family readers first fell in love with in There There—warriors, drunks, outlaws, addicts—asking what it means to bethe children and grandchildren of massacre. Wandering Stars is a novel about epigenetic and generational trauma that has the force and vision of a modern epic, an exceptionally powerful new book from one of the most exciting writers at work today and soaring confirmation of Tommy Orange’s monumental gifts.
Ethan Hawke
Actor
Georgia, Jett and I wanted to let y’all know that Tommy Orange’s latest novel Wandering Stars, out on February 27, is excellent.
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Stoner

Discover an American masterpiece. This unassuming story about the life of a quiet English professor has earned the admiration of readers all over the globe. William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love with English literature and embraces a scholar’s life, so different from the hardscrabble existence he has known. And yet as the years pass, Stoner encounters a succession of disappointments: marriage into a “proper” family estranges him from his parents; his career is stymied; his wife and daughter turn coldly away from him; a transforming experience of new love ends under threat of scandal. Driven ever deeper within himself, Stoner rediscovers the stoic silence of his forebears and confronts an essential solitude. John Williams’s luminous and deeply moving novel is a work of quiet perfection. William Stoner emerges from it not only as an archetypal American, but as an unlikely existential hero, standing, like a figure in a painting by Edward Hopper, in stark relief against an unforgiving world.
Ethan Hawke
Actor
Which book changed your life? John Williams’ Stoner.
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The Eyes and the Impossible

From the award-winning author of The Every and the illustrator behind the beloved picture book Her Right Foot comes an endearing and beautifully illustrated story of a dog who unwittingly becomes a hero to a park full of animals.Johannes, a free dog, lives in an urban park by the sea. His job is to be the Eyes—to see everything that happens within the park and report back to the park’s elders, three ancient Bison. His friends—a seagull, a raccoon, a squirrel, and a pelican—work with him as the Assistant Eyes, observing the humans and other animals who share the park and making sure the Equilibrium is in balance. But changes are afoot. More humans, including Trouble Travelers, arrive in the park. A new building, containing mysterious and hypnotic rectangles, goes up. And then there are the goats—an actual boatload of goats—who appear, along with a shocking revelation that changes Johannes’s view of the world.A story about friendship, beauty, liberation, and running very, very fast, The Eyes & the Impossible will make readers of all ages see the world around them in a wholly new way.
Ethan Hawke
Actor
I’ve read some fantastic books recently so I’m sharing a few for #WorldBookDay. Pictured here is Dave Eggers’ new novel The Eyes and the Impossible.
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Making Movies

Why does a director choose a particular script? What must they do in order to keep actors fresh and truthful through take after take of a single scene? How do you stage a shootout—involving more than one hundred extras and three colliding taxis—in the heart of New York’s diamond district? What does it take to keep the studio honchos happy? From the first rehearsal to the final screening, Making Movies is a master’s take, delivered with clarity, candor, and a wealth of anecdote. For in this book, Sidney Lumet, one of our most consistently acclaimed directors, gives us both a professional memoir and a definitive guide to the art, craft, and business of the motion picture. Drawing on forty years of experience on movies that range from Long Day’s Journey into Night to Network and The Verdict—and with such stars as Katharine Hepburn, Paul Newman, Marlon Brando, and Al Pacino—Lumet explains how painstaking labor and inspired split-second decisions can result in two hours of screen magic.
Ethan Hawke
Actor
If you're really interested in his advice, he has a really wonderful book called MAKING MOVIES.
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Far From The Tree

**WINNER OF THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE 2014**A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERSometimes your child - the most familiar person of all - is radically different from you. The saying goes that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. But what happens when it does? Drawing on interviews with over three hundred families, covering subjects including deafness, dwarfs, Down's Syndrome, Autism, Schizophrenia, disability, prodigies, children born of rape, children convicted of crime and transgender people, Andrew Solomon documents ordinary people making courageous choices. Difference is potentially isolating, but Far from the Tree celebrates repeated triumphs of human love and compassion to show that the shared experience of difference is what unites us. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for General Non-fiction and eleven other national awards. Winner of the Green Carnation Prize.
Ethan Hawke
Actor
I'd like to recommend Andrew Solomon's book FAR FROM THE TREE - it's an excellent book on the subject of how our differences are what make us human, and what we perceive as disability is quite often something very different.
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Mutha

A collection of irreverent and poetic short works from legendary actor Vincent D’Onofrio This is not a story woven around plot, characters, and contrivance. Rather, it is what acclaimed actor Vincent D’Onofrio’s mind produces when on idle, when he is not thinking about servicing a story. His words are, in the purest sense, ideas that fall unexpectedly upon his head, “like an apple from a tree—dropping all at once,” though less about gravity and Newton’s apples, and more about levity. D’Onofrio’s thoughts and images—presented here in all their uninhibited glory—are humorous, honest, abundant, raw, and unfiltered. And all exceedingly enjoyable. The unique design—a paperback with flaps and Chinese binding, all contained in a full-color, hardcover slipcase—offers the book an artistic, collectible feel.
Ethan Hawke
Actor
My good friend’s book came out yesterday. I’ve never read anything like it or met anyone else like him.
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Carry On

*National Bestseller*A brilliant and empowering collection of final reflections and words of wisdom from venerable civil rights champion, the late Congressman John Lewis at the end of his remarkable life.Congressman John Lewis was a paragon of the Civil Rights Movement and political leadership for decades. A hero we won’t soon forget, Lewis was a beacon of hope and a model of humility whose invocation to “good trouble” continues to inspire millions across our nation. In his last months on earth, even while battling cancer, he dedicated time to share his memories, beliefs, and advice—exclusively immortalized in these pages—as a message to the generations to come.Organized by topic ranging from justice, courage, faith, mentorship, and forgiveness to the protests and the pandemic, and many more besides, Carry On collects the late Congressman’s thoughts for readers to draw on whenever they are in need of guidance. John Lewis had great confidence in our future, even as he died in the midst of one of our country’s most challenging years to date. With this book, he performs that crucial passing of the baton, empowering us to live up to the legacy he has left us with his perseverance, dedication, profound insight, and unwavering ability to see the good in life.
Ethan Hawke
Actor
Just a year after we lost the great Congressman Lewis, his final book hit the shelves. It keeps his wisdom and spirit alive - something we can all stand to gain from.
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7 Books Recommended by Ethan Hawke

Here is a list of Ethan Hawke's favorite books. The actor spoke about the writers he's most drawn towards.
Ethan Hawke
Actor
Here is a list of Ethan Hawke's favorite books. The actor spoke about the writers he's most drawn towards.
Music from Ethan Hawke

To Live Is To Fly — Townes Van Zandt

Ethan Hawke
Actor
What song would you like played at your funeral? Townes Van Zandt’s To Live Is To Fly.
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Elvis Presley

Ethan Hawke
Actor
Well, recently, believe it or not, I went into a huge Elvis Presley hole. After not listening to him my whole life, I took my daughter to Graceland and ended up feeling extremely moved by the plight of poor Mr. Presley. And I've become obsessed with his music recently.
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Guy Clark

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Blood Feathers

Ethan Hawke
Actor
Hey, you're from Austin, TX. Any favorite local bands? There's a cool indie band from Philadelphia called The Blood Feathers; they're not from Austin, but I would like to give them a plug, they are terrific.
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Wilko

Ethan Hawke
Actor
Wilco is one of my favorite bands.
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Conor Oberst

Ethan Hawke
Actor
Generally though Connor Oberst is one of the best singer-songwriters.
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Elvis Costello

Ethan Hawke
Actor
Pitchfork: Have you been a Costello fan for a while? EH: Oh yeah. I remember in the days when you had the cassette Walkman, I had a tape of My Aim Is True and “(The Angels Wanna Wear) My Red Shoes,” I would just play it and rewind it, play it and rewind it right before my screen test for Dead Poets Society.
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The Clash by The Clash

Ethan Hawke
Actor
The first album I ever bought The Clash – ‘The Clash’
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Ethan Hawke's Favorite Songs

Here is a list of soundtracks of Ethan Hawke's life. Enjoy!
Ethan Hawke
Actor
Here is a list of soundtracks of Ethan Hawke's life. Enjoy!
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Mike Leigh

Mike Leigh OBE FRSL is an English writer-director with a career spanning film, theatre and television.
Ethan Hawke
Actor
Which living person do you most admire, and why? Mike Leigh: his work is important.
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Willie Hugh Nelson

Willie Hugh Nelson is an American singer, songwriter, musician, political activist and actor. He was one of the main figures of outlaw country, a subgenre of country music that developed in the late 1960s as a reaction to the conservative restrictions of the Nashville sound.
Ethan Hawke
Actor
We all love you, Willie. An honor to pay tribute to you at Long Story Short: Willie Nelson 90.
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Dave Eggers

Dave Eggers
Ethan Hawke
Actor
Dave Eggers is one of my favorite authors.
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Leonardo DiCaprio

Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio is an American actor and film producer. Known for his work in biopics and period films, DiCaprio is the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and three Golden Globe Awards.
Ethan Hawke
Actor
Is it okay if I say Leonardo DiCaprio? Because I know he's crazy famous and everyone wants to work with him, but I admire tremendously the way he has handled his celebrity.
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Denzel Washington

Denzel Hayes Washington Jr. is an American actor, director, and producer. Known for his performances on the screen and stage, he has been described as an actor who reconfigured "the concept of classic movie stardom". He has frequently collaborated with directors Spike Lee, Antoine Fuqua, and Tony Scott.
Ethan Hawke
Actor
To my mind, Denzel Washington is the greatest movie star of our time. There's nothing he can't do.
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Nicolas Cage

Nicolas Kim Coppola, known professionally as Nicolas Cage, is an American actor and filmmaker. Born into the Coppola family, Cage is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a Golden Globe Award.
Ethan Hawke
Actor
I'm kind of obsessed with Nic Cage. I just found out about r/onetruegod too. He's the only actor since Marlon Brando that's actually done anything new with the art of acting; he's successfully taken us away from an obsession with naturalism into a kind of presentation style of acting that I imagine was popular with the old troubadours.
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Lawrence Monsanto Ferlinghetti was an American poet, painter, social activist, and co-founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers.
Ethan Hawke
Actor
Who is the most interesting person you've met on your travels? I once saw Lawrence Ferlinghetti read poetry. He had probably the most interesting eyes of any man I've ever met.
Places from Ethan Hawke

Palace of the Parliament

The Palace of the Parliament, also known as the Republic's House or People's House/People's Palace, is the seat of the Parliament of Romania, located atop Dealul Spirii in Bucharest, the national capital.
Ethan Hawke
Actor
Hello, Ethan! What is your favorite place in Romania, if you have one? Actually, I love the People's Palace, or as you call it now, “Parliament Palace”. It’s outrageously big and ostentatious, but it’s great fun to have an event there.
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Brooklyn Bridge

The Brooklyn Bridge is a hybrid cable-stayed/suspension bridge in New York City, spanning the East River between the boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn. Opened on May 24, 1883, the Brooklyn Bridge was the first fixed crossing of the East River.
Ethan Hawke
Actor
Which is your road most travelled? The Brooklyn Bridge. I live in Brooklyn and I have to take my son to school over the bridge to Manhattan. Every time I look at it, I think of Walt Whitman. I always imagine him walking over it.
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Alaska

Alaska is a state located in the Western United States on the northwest extremity of North America. A semi-exclave of the U.S., it borders the Canadian province of British Columbia and the territory of Yukon to the east and share a maritime border with the Russian Federation's Chukotka Autonomous Okrug to the west, just across the Bering Strait. To the north are the Chukchi and Beaufort seas of the Arctic Ocean, while the Pacific Ocean lies to the south and southwest.
Ethan Hawke
Actor
What's your favourite place you've been for work? When I was 18, I filmed White Fang in Alaska for six months, and it was one of the most incredible experiences I've ever had. I still dream about it.
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Ethan Hawke's Favorite States

Here is a list of Ethan Hawke's favorite states. Enjoy!
Ethan Hawke
Actor
Here is a list of Ethan Hawke's favorite states. Enjoy!
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Greenwich Village

The epicenter of the city's 1960s counterculture movement, the tree-lined streets of Greenwich Village are now a hub of popular cafes, bars and restaurants. Jazz clubs and Off-Broadway Theaters can also be found amid the brownstones and New York University buildings. At its heart is Washington Square Park, where people mingle around the central plaza. Rainbow flags attest to the neighborhood's LGBT-friendly vibe.
Ethan Hawke
Actor
Where in the world have you felt happiest? New York City. Greenwich Village in the summer time is heaven.