Hawk Films Hawk Films Hawk Films was a British film production company formed by Stanley Kubrick for his 1964 film "Dr. Strangelove". He also used it as production company for "A Clockwork Orange" (1971), "Barry Lyndon" (1975), "The Shining" (1980) and "Full Metal Jacket" (1987). He later formed two subsidiaries that were also named after birds of prey: In addition to Hawk Films, Peregrine Productions was involved in the production of "Barry Lyndon" and "The Shining"; while Harrier Films was involved in the production of "Full Metal Jacket" together with his main production company Stanley Kubrick Productions, which he set up for
Full Metal Jacket Ermey, calling him "the film's stunning surprise ... he's so good—so obsessed—that you might think he wrote his own lines". Canby also said D'Onofrio's performance should be admired, and he called Modine "one of the best, most adaptable young film actors of his generation". Canby concluded: "Full Metal Jacket" was "a film of immense and very rare imagination". Jim Hall, writing for Film4 in 2010, awarded the film 5 out of 5 stars and added to the praise for Ermey, saying his "performance as the foul-mouthed Hartman is justly celebrated and it's difficult to imagine the film working anything like