Reporting from the Denver Film Festival. When it comes to cinematic landscapes, few are as iconic—or at least as mined—as Monument Valley. Located in northern Arizona, home to the Navajo Nation, Monument Valley was placed in the geography of cinema … Continue reading THE TAKING
It’s 1950, and John Ford wants to make a movie: The Quiet Man, from a story by Maurice Walsh, about a retired boxer who returns to his birthplace in Ireland and falls for a vivacious redhead. The movie will star John Wayne … Continue reading RIO GRANDE
Young Mr. Lincoln might be John Ford’s greatest film. And that’s saying something. Especially considering Young Mr. Lincoln was one of three films Ford made in 1939 alone. The other two: Stagecoach is cited by many to be the best western an American studio ever … Continue reading YOUNG MR. LINCOLN
There’s a new John Ford/Wayne western available on Blu-ray, and there’s a little something in it about healing a divided country. Seem appropriate. But that’s only one component of Rio Grande. The rest is much more traditional. Wayne stars as York … Continue reading This week in Film — RIO GRANDE
I didn’t show up at the ceremony to collect any of my first three Oscars. Once I went fishing, another time there was a war on, and on another occasion, I remember, I was suddenly taken drunk. —John Ford Continue reading Born On This Day — February 01, 1894
Movement should be a counter, whether in action scenes or dialogue or whatever. It counters where your eye is going. This style thing, for me it’s all fitted to the action, to the script, to the characters. —Samuel Fuller Continue reading In Their Words — Tuesday, February 26, 2013
I didn’t show up at the ceremony to collect any of my first three Oscars. Once I went fishing, another time there was a war on, and on another occasion, I remember, I was suddenly taken drunk. —John Ford Continue reading In Their Words — Sunday, February 24, 2013
I love making pictures but I don’t like talking about them. —John Ford Continue reading In Their Words — Friday, February 1, 2013
For a director there are commercial rules that it is necessary to obey. In our profession, an artistic failure is nothing; a commercial failure is a sentence. The secret is to make films that please the public and also allow … Continue reading In Their Words — Saturday, December 15, 2012
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