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Directors We Love: John Ford
16 September 2009 8:15 PM, PDT
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On the comprehensive movie list site, They Shoot Pictures, Don't They?, John Ford currently ranks #4 on the list of the all-time 100 greatest film directors (with Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock and Federico Fellini ahead of him), though he has placed more films than anyone else, 18, on the list of the all-time top 1000. I think the reason he doesn't rank higher is that he was one of the few great film directors to be fully appreciated in his own time. He won the Best Director Oscar four times -- still a record -- and took home an additional two Oscars for his wartime documentaries.
Welles was once asked whose films he studied when he made Citizen Kane in 1941, and he replied: "the old masters, by which I mean John Ford, John Ford and John Ford." Of course, even by the time he was an "old master," Ford would continue to make films like They Were Expendable,
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- Jeffrey M. Anderson
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DVD: Review: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
2 June 2009 10:00 PM, PDT
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John Ford did more to shape the American Western than any other director; in every decade of his career, he led the charge to define and redefine it. By 1962, he didn’t have many films left in him, but The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance still provided a glimpse of future interpretations of the past. The late ’60s and ’70s found filmmakers demythologizing the Old West; with Liberty Valance, Ford beat them to it, offering a bittersweet look at the closing of the frontier by focusing on two strikingly different men who help one town choose law and order
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Triple Feature: Gunfight at the Ok Corral
30 May 2009 7:02 AM, PDT
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In a famous moment from John Ford's The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, a reporter, having learned that the legendary bravery of a U.S. Senator isn't quite the tale of heroism that he expected, tears up his notes and says, "This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend."
It's not just a great line that efficiently sums up the movie's theme. It's also a savvy commentary by Ford on the way Hollywood approaches Western lore. And nowhere is it more true than with the legend of Wyatt Earp and the showdown at the O.K. Corral.
Most people don't realize how little time has passed since the glory days of the Old West, when cowboys herded cattle across country, bad men robbed stagecoaches, and law was established from territory to territory. Wyatt Earp lived until 1929, and spent his latter days in Hollywood where
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- Dawn Taylor
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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (Centennial Collection) - DVD Review
28 May 2009 5:48 AM, PDT
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The John Ford classic returns to DVD as part of the Paramount Centennial Collection sporting new special features. Saddle up Pilgrim and mosey on back to the old west in this fine, classic film starring John Wayne and Jimmy Stewart and directed by old master John Ford. When a United States Senator returns to the small burg of Shinbone to be present at the funeral of a seemingly unimportant person, the local press is gathered by the arrival of the famous and important face and when one of them asks why he would attend this funeral he beings his tale. Rance Stoddard (Jimmy Stewart), our Senator in his youth, was an idealistic young attorney on the stage
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- Jeff Swindoll
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DVD Round Up, May 27, 2009: ‘Eden Log,’ ‘El Dorado,’ ‘Yonkers Joe’
27 May 2009 11:57 AM, PDT
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Chicago – Welcome back to the Round-Up, a safety net to catch the DVD titles that fell off the mainstream tightrope. The titles this week have virtually nothing in common other than coming in two waves from two studios - a pair of classics from Paramount’s Centennial Collection and a trio of indie films from the great Magnolia Pictures.
All five titles were released on May 19th, 2009.
“Centennial Collection #8: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance”
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Synopsis: “”This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.” Behind the camera? John Ford, a director whose name is synonymous with “Westerns.” Gathered in front of it? An ideal cast – James Stewart, John Wayne, Vera Miles and Lee Marvin. Now presented on two discs, with all-new special features, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance rides into town as classic entry in the Paramount Centennial Collection.
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DVD’s I Bought This Week: May 19th
19 May 2009 9:37 AM, PDT
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Rob Hunter loves movies. He also loves taking pictures of people in uncompromising positions and situations. These two joys come together in the form of blackmail payments that he receives every week and immediately uses to buy more DVD's. So join us each week as Rob takes a look at new DVD releases and gives his highly unqualified opinion as to which titles are worth BUYing, which are better off as RENTals, and which should be AVOIDed at all costs.
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El Dorado
Pitch: For those of you who don't believe it's possible for a remake to (almost) equal the original.
Why Buy? Yes, I know this isn't technically a remake of Rio Bravo, but it's pretty damn close. It's also a damn fine film in it's own right. This is one of two new additions to Paramount's Centennial
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- Rob Hunter
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This Week On DVD and Blu-ray: May 19, 2009
19 May 2009 3:32 AM, PDT
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Before we get started there are a couple of things to point out. First off, Universal is selling quite a few of its DVD catalog titles for cheap as part of a promotion and including Movie Cash for one ticket to see Land of the Lost. One title I noticed on sale for only $9.99 was the 30th Anniversary Edition of Jaws, which you can buy directly right here, or you can search all of the titles by clicking here.
Harry Potter Gift Set, The Fountain, Unforgiven, The Wild Bunch, The Searchers, Rio Bravo, Purple Rain, The Adventures of Robin Hood, Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang, GoodFellas, The Fugitive, Enter the Dragon, Dog Day Afternoon, The Dirty Dozen, The Cowboys, Constantine, Bullitt, Blood Diamond, Blazing Saddles, Battle for the Bulge, The Last Samurai, Syriana, The Aviator, Million Dollar Baby and Lethal Weapon
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Another 'Shot' For Ford Film
18 May 2009 10:38 PM, PDT
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It's got John Wayne using "pilgrim" as a greeting for the first time -- and one of the most quotable curtain lines ever: "This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend."
But the elegiac "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" -- a failure with the public and critics alike when it was released in 1962 -- acquired its status as John Ford's last classic film only by dint of years of television showings.
"It was more popular in Europe, and that's probably because he
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- By LOU LUMENICK
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Review: 'The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance' and 'El Dorado' on DVD
17 May 2009 7:00 AM, PDT
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The Western movie genre is something most of us consider a relic from the 1950s, and yet, two of the better regarded films – The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
and El Dorado
– are products of the 1960s, even though they feel older given the changes to American cinema in that decade. Both movies, coming out Tuesday as part of Paramount Home Video’s Centennial Collection, are both solid and entertaining.
The former may be best recalled for line, "This is the west, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend." It stars James Stewart and John Ford playing entirely different kinds of men of the west. Wayne was a rancher, a fairly decent sort but narrow-minded, prone to jealousy, and believed using a gun was essential to surviving on the frontier. Stewart, a lawyer by training, came west to start his career. Both loved Hallie (Vera Miles) and had
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- Robert Greenberger
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DVD Playhouse--May 2009
11 May 2009 11:22 PM, PDT
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DVD Playhouse—May 2009
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Allen Gardner
Paramount Centennial Collection Paramount Studios releases two more classic titles from its library on special edition DVD: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is John Ford’s last masterpiece (although he would go on to direct two more very good films) from 1962: about an Eastern lawyer (James Stewart) who travels west only to find primal brutality in the form of sadistic bandit Liberty Valance (Lee Marvin, great as always) and pragmatic brutality in local rancher Tom Doniphon (John Wayne), each two sides of a coin that represent a way of life slowly dying out as Stewart’s modern brand of civilization tames the West. A perfect film, period. Howard Hawks’ El Dorado is essentially a remake of his earlier classic Rio Bravo, with John Wayne, Robert Mitchum and a young James Caan as lawmen joining forces against corrupt cattle barons. Great fun. Two disc sets.
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[DVD Review] The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
2 May 2009 3:40 PM, PDT
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When at the tender age of just twenty-six Orsen Welles delivered Citizen Kane, a groundbreaking piece of cinema both technically and thematically that has served as a benchmark ever since, people were understandably curious as to how he'd managed to accomplish it. His reply was his strikingly simple: "I studied the greats: John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford."
Prolific, innovative, and famed for his commanding yet eccentric directorial style, John Ford is widely regarded as one of the great masters of American cinema. But it is within the genre of the western (where his best work genuinely does reside) that he is best remembered and will always remain as a true icon. Famed for his now legendary vistas and location shooting where he displayed an eye for landscape that would rival the greatest canvas artists, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
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- Neil Pedley
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Oscar's Biggest Blunders
7 February 2009 3:26 PM, PST
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As we creep closer to the 2009 Academy Awards, prognosticators look back as much as forward to try and determine who the favorites will be. By looking back, I mean to suggest that past Academy choices perhaps unfairly paint them in a certain light, and support the group's predictability and oft-whispered bias. For instance, feel good films generally trump depressors. Oscar loves a comeback story almost as much as they love to reward seasoned veterans with lead acting awards and fresh faces in the supporting roles (particularly supporting actress). And despite a requisite surprise or two every year, they mostly play it safe. Usually painfully boringly safe. That, and the fact they get it wrong more often than they get it right. So I present a glance at the ten most egregiously shortsighted Oscars ever given.
I'm focusing solely on the big one: Best Picture. If I included anything and everything,
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- Matt Medlock
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