John Ford

Merrimack Hall continues Classic Sunday Film series with "The Searchers"

The Bus Stops Here - al.com (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009

Directed by John Ford, "The Searchers" has been called the "greatest Western of all time."

Notable film and media links--November 6, 2009

The Film Doctor (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009

---How you can tell that Charles Bronson is a man. ---Recommended reading: Farber on Film : The Complete Film Writings of Manny Farber , edited by Robert Polito. In a review of the new book, Howard Hampton notes some surprising aspects of Farber's critical method: "1) The notion of what movie to see and what to avoid is secondary to opening up new ways of looking at the familiar and the overlooked....

SWORDS: LIFE ON THE LINE" Is Renewed For Second Season

Reality TV Website (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009

SWORDS: LIFE ON THE LINE, the hit documentary series that showcases the lives of New England's long line fisherman, will return for a second season of high risk adventure in the North Atlantic, it was announced by John Ford, president and general manager of The Discovery Channel

Oprah Winfrey to Narrate Discovery Channel's Epic Television Event, LIFE

Reality TV Website (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009

Global media leader and philanthropist Oprah Winfrey will narrate Discovery Channel's all-new 11-part series LIFE, set to premiere in March 2010. The series reveals the most spectacular, bizarre and fascinating behaviors that living things have devised in order to thrive. Many of these were captured for the first time using the latest in state-of-the-art high-definition filming techniques

Bullish on Blu-Ray

Variety.com (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009

Technology News: Confab predicts format's bright future -- The Blu-ray Disc format will ride to the rescue of the home entertainment industry -- eventually, according to a panel of top retail and studio execs at Tuesday's Blu-Con conference in BevHills.

A season of books on Dorothea Lange

Modern Art Notes (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009

In this week's New York Review of Books, Jonathan Raban examines two new books about Dorothea Lange: Linda Gordon's Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits is a biography and Anne Whiston Spirn's Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange's Photographs and Reports from the Field is an in-depth look at Lange's experiences in 1939. Raban clearly has something he wants to say before he jumps into the books: His essay...

Cinema's most enduring citizen

The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009

Twenty-five years after his death, Orson Welles still holds an almost magical grip on cinema buffs’ imaginations

50 Cent's The 51st Law: Do Not Let Thy Before I Self Destruct Leak

Sound of the City (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009

If you are marooned on a desert island, train feral cats to be your protectors and companions, like Alexander Selkirk. Also: Be a tyrannical dickhead, like famous director John Ford, but al...

Court rules on vetting safeguards

BBC News (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009

New vetting checks designed to protect children carry a "real risk" of undermining public confidence, the Supreme Court rules.

Shall We Dance?

Tangled Blog (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009

Just watched Harold and Maude again, classic film. Bud Cort as Harold with his banjo dancing along the California cliffs made me think about my favorite dance scenes in movies (exluding musicals). For your consideration: 1. Some Like It Hot - Jack Lemon in drag and Joe E. Brown, as funny as it gets. Watch it and try not to laugh. 2. Witness - Harrison Ford and Kelly McGillis dancing and romancing to...

Peter Handke on John Ford's Young Mr. Lincoln

goatdogblog (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009

From Peter Handke's marvelous 1972 novel Short Letter, Long Farewell: [A mob is attempting to lynch two brothers accused of murder] ...Lincoln stopped them by softly reminding them of themselves, of what they were, what they could be, and what...

John Ford's "Battle of Midway"

The Dougout (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009

During the Battle of Midway Island (June 4-5, 1942) legendary director John Ford was on the island with a 16mm color movie camera. Here is the result: The film is nearly twenty minutes long and received an Oscar for best documentary. This was one of six Oscars Ford would acquire during his long career. While filming the Japanese air-raid on 4 June 1942, a nearby bomb explosion knocked out Ford. When...

Levi’s Goes Forth. Finally.

eyecube (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009

A few weeks ago when I first saw the Wieden + Kennedy produced “Go Forth” ads for Levi’s I was immediately taken by their arresting power. A really terrific execution that combines bold visuals with a voice-over that was unlike anything I’d heard before, both in sound and content. A (much) smarter man than I, Grant [...]

Call it "kismet." Mechelle's latest blog entry...

Women's Hoops Blog (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009

Call it "kismet." Mechelle's latest blog entry touches on women's basketball history.... The ‘near’ and the ‘far’ at Iowa State This past July, I went to see “Six-on-Six: The Musical,” which is an homage to girls’ basketball as it used to be played in the state of Iowa. Playwright and director Robert John Ford witnessed the famed state tournament...

• The ‘near’ and the ‘far’ at Iowa State - Mechelle Voepel

The Battle of Midway

Power Line (Free subscription) | 25/10/2009

Big Hollywood's series on conservative movies continues with an account of director John Ford's filming of his documentary on the Battle of Midway, in the course of which Ford himself was injured. When Ford viewed the rushes that he had taken at Midway -- the massive explosions, the debris slamming into the camera, the spectacular raising of the flag amongst black clouds of ruin -- he knew he had...