Blogs about: John Ford
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Searching for the canon
Stephen Metcalf has an essay at Slate on John Ford’s THE SEARCHERS with the dead giveaway title “The Worst Best Movie: Why on earth did The Searchers get canonized?” I have to place… more »
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the potential jurors
The Rant! wrote 4 days ago: The potential jurors are filling the courtroom as I type. There’s definitely a mix in ages, ra … more »
Which Book? Which America?: John Ford's Sergeant Rutledge (with bonus Michelle Obama reference)
zunguzungu wrote 1 week ago: Sergeant Rutledge, from 1960, is probably not a great movie; it’s marred by weak acting and (a … more »
How The West Was Won: Cinerama Comes to Blu-Ray
Christian wrote 2 weeks ago: Although Cinemascope was the first of the new widescreen processes to hit the screen with the hi … more »
New Cinema Screenwriting (part 1)
Scott W. Smith wrote 2 weeks ago: “I am big. It’s the pictures that got small.” … more »
couldn't happen to a nicer guy
melo wrote 2 weeks ago: When I saw that John Ford had failed in his latest attempt to delay his prison sentence, all I could … more »
A patchy chief
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dcairns wrote 1 month ago: Boy, Ford sure had the sloppiest eyepatch. Even I could tell you it’d look better UNDER the … more »
Birthdays and mingling your mii
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reversiblepanda wrote 1 month ago: Yesterday we had a birthday in the office. There are special conversations that happen in an office … more »
no country for old men.
calrocks wrote 1 month ago: No Country for Old Men. Hmph. That’s what I said as the credits started to roll up the sc … more »
and it's a battered old suitcase...
derek wrote 1 month ago: Living abroad, basically out of a backpack, prevents one from maintaining the lifestyle of a pac … more »
The Quiet Man
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redherrings wrote 1 month ago: IMDB (1952, John Ford) All the Irish stereotypes are upheld in this Ford/Wayne collaboration. If I … more »
The Perfect Irish Romance: John Ford's "The Quiet Man" (1952)
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theroadshowversion wrote 2 months ago: Since it’s St. Patrick’s Day, I thought it would only be proper to devote today’s … more »
John Ford Goes to Guantanamo, again
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zunguzungu wrote 2 months ago: Since you’re barely five minutes into The Searchers when it’s firmly established that Jo … more »
The Orphan Brood: The "Other" Classics of the Masters
jacksiodmak wrote 2 months ago: Beautiful Orphan: Letter from an Unknown Woman We all know “Citizen Kane” and ho … more »
Dismembering and Remembering the Young Mr. Lincoln
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zunguzungu wrote 2 months ago: The Young Mr. Lincoln is so over-determined as to be a complete cipher, and in the hands of a less e … more »
The Greatest Westerns: Redux
jacksiodmak wrote 2 months ago: Epic Earp: Fonda, Downs in My Darling Clementine Exposed and shivering on some lonely pla … more »
"The Unspeakable Pleasure of Killing Arabs": or, John Ford gets lost in Iraq
zunguzungu wrote 2 months ago: The Lost Patrol; an early John Ford movie set in “Mesopotamia” during WWI. After The Pri … more »
The Greatest Western of Them All: #1
jacksiodmak wrote 2 months ago: The Cinema’s great Dark Man: “In his eyes, the world…” Stop. I know the … more »
The Greatest Westerns: 5 through 3
jacksiodmak wrote 2 months ago: Ride the High Country The Hollywood Western, by its very nature, is fantastical. It is as out the … more »
Hide the Children! The Greatest Westerns Completed, Part I (Finally!)
jacksiodmak wrote 2 months ago: Winchester 73 When Donposa asked me to step in and keep this blog alive I, at first, demurred. A … more »
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