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Tag: John Wayne

Film Festival, Reviews

THE TAKING

November 4, 2021November 5, 2021 Michael J. Casey

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

Boulder Weekly, Home Video, Reviews

RIO GRANDE

May 4, 2021May 16, 2021 Michael J. Casey

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

Boulder Weekly

This week in Film — RIO GRANDE

January 7, 2021January 7, 2021 Michael J. Casey

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

Sunday Streams

THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE

May 26, 2020May 26, 2020 Michael J. Casey

Marion Michael Robinson, aka John Wayne, aka The Duke, was born in Winterset, Iowa on May 26, 1907. If he were alive today, he would be 113. But he’s not. Wayne died on June 11, 1979, at the age of … Continue reading THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE

In Their Words

In Their Words — Friday, May 24, 2013

May 24, 2013December 12, 2021 Michael J. Casey

If you’ll ever listen to some people who are talking, especially in a scene of any excitement, they all talk at the same time. All it needs is a little extra work on the dialog. You put a few words … Continue reading In Their Words — Friday, May 24, 2013

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