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• For Conservative Movie Lovers: John Ford, John Wayne, and ‘They Were Expendable’ Part 4

  
  Big Hollywood — Authority: 814
  [There is a video that cannot be displayed in this feed. Visit the blog entry to see the video.] “Close-ups, affectionate or noble, are held at leisure; long shots are sustained long after their narrative role has been performed. A marginal figure is suddenly dwelt on, lovingly enlarged to fill the center of the ...
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• RIO GRANDE (John Ford, 1950)

  
  Dennis Grunes — Authority: 132
  Jean-Marie Straub identified John Ford as the most Brechtian of filmmakers. Case in point is the most brilliant shot in Rio Grande , the final installment of Ford’s Cavalry Trilogy. White children, kidnapped by Apaches, are holed up in a small Mexican church; a U.S. Cavalry troop, inside the church, plan on ...
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• FORT APACHE (John Ford, 1948)

  
  Dennis Grunes — Authority: 132
  The first and most brilliant part of John Ford’s Cavalry Trilogy is Fort Apache ; the only Ford film to star both Henry Fonda and John Wayne, it pits two characters against each other who epitomize different aspects of the military impetus: purity and practicality; careerism and leadership; military orders and ...
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• SHE WORE A YELLOW RIBBON (John Ford, 1949)

  
  Dennis Grunes — Authority: 132
  “Custer is dead,” matter-of-fact voiceover declares at the outset of She Wore a Yellow Ribbon , the middle part of John Ford’s Cavalry Trilogy, written by Frank S. Nugent and Laurence Stallings from the story “War Party” by James Warner Bellah. It is an informative public voice. Six weeks before his ...
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• For Conservative Movie Lovers: John Ford, John Wayne, and ‘They Were Expendable’ Part 3

  
  Big Hollywood — Authority: 814
  “That bold buckaroo with the cold green eyes .” – General Douglas MacArthur, describing his savior John Bulkeley – In March 1942, facing imminent capture by the Japanese, America’s commander in the Far East was ordered to slip away to safety in Australia. The Empire of the Sun controlled both air and sea, ...
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• Mister Roberts (1955)

  
  Cinemaroll — Authority: 134
  Mister Roberts lobby card set image courtesy Heritage Auction Galleries Thomas O. Heggen’s Mister Roberts first sailed into movie theaters in 1955. Henry Fonda has the title role, with Jack Lemmon, James Cagney, William Powell and Ward Bond as his shipmates. Thomas O. Heggen’s Mister Roberts Mister ...
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• For Conservative Movie Lovers: John Ford, John Wayne, and ‘They Were Expendable’ Part 2

  
  Big Hollywood — Authority: 814
  “I am really a coward. I know I am, so that’s why I did foolish things. I was decorated eight or nine times, trying to prove that I was not a coward, but after it was all over I still knew, know, that I was a coward.” – John Ford – June 4, 1942. The Battle of Midway. John Ford was on his back, covered in ...
  2 weeks ago

• Liberty’s Valiants

  
  The Front Row — Authority: 131
  I’m grateful to my colleague Amy Davidson for calling my attention to a terrific piece in Sports Illustrated by my old friend Alex Wolff , about Woody Strode and Kenny Washington, the two players who integrated the N.F.L. in 1946. I’m not much on football, but Strode, as Alex makes eminently clear, had a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Finite Focus: No Man With a Good Car Needs to be Justified! (Wise Blood)

  
  Row Three — Authority: 533
  J ohn Huston often directed films about mad, lonely men (from fierce Captain Ahab in Moby Dick to the Humphrey Borgart twofer of The Treasure of Sierra Madre and The Maltese Falcon ) while moonlighting as an actor playing monsters on screen (none greater than Noah Cross is Chinatown). Strange that the combination ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

  
  The Front Row — Authority: 131
  This Saturday night, as part of the New York Film Critics Circle series devoted to films released in 1962, BAM will screen John Ford’s Western “ The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance .” There’s much to say about it; the simplest is that it’s both the most romantic of Westerns and the greatest American political ...
  3 weeks ago

• For Conservative Movie Lovers: John Ford, John Wayne, and ‘They Were Expendable’ Part 1

  
  Big Hollywood — Authority: 814
  [There is a video that cannot be displayed in this feed. Visit the blog entry to see the video.] “[John Ford] was the only one of the Hollywood directors who fought who did not forget his men.” – Captain Mark Armistead, USN – Thus quotes Joseph McBride in his masterful biography Searching for John Ford ...
  3 weeks ago

• Cinematical Seven: Directorial Double Whammies

  
  Cinematical — Authority: 754
  Reading about movies, you hear stories of some films shot in five days and other films shot over three years. Some of the poverty-row directors and B-movie makers cranked out as many movies as they could during a calendar year, while filmmakers like Charlie Chaplin and Stanley Kubrick waited years between projects ...
  4 weeks ago

• England Dan & John Ford Coley – I’d Really Love to See You Tonight

  
  too sweet for rock and roll - music birthdays blogged daily — Authority: 151
  John Ford Coley , American musician Tagged: England Dan and John Ford Coley, John Ford Coley, October 13 birthdays, pop, pop/rock, rock, soft rock
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• Tim McGraw Covers All the Good Stuff

  
  CMT Blog — Authority: 596
  Its October, which means the countdown to Tim McGraw s Southern Voice album has officially begun. Which has made me kind of take a trip down memory lane. Its no secret Ive loved his music for a long time. But what I guess I didnt realize until I started thinking about it just now, is that I love his music even when ...
  5 weeks ago

• New Releases for September 15th

  
  Scarecrow Video — Authority: 123
  Greetings, all. Here’s what’s new on our shelves for the week of September 15 th . We also just assembled the Patrick Swayze tribute section for your memorial viewing. As I’m sure you’ve been reminded a lot in the last day, always be nice and never put Baby in the corner. X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE —The ...
  8 weeks ago

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