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Wayne in the Water: Two Nautical Adventures with The Duke

Oct 4, 2017 Nathanael Hood 0

By the mid-50s, John Wayne had long abandoned playing characters in his movies. Instead—with very rare exceptions like John Ford’s The Searchers (1956)—John Wayne was content with playing John Wayne. Tough, authoritative, and incalculably charismatic, […]

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B-Roll: John Ford Lost and Found BUCKING BROADWAY

Jul 10, 2017 Nathanael Hood 0

In all of film history, there are few greater tragedies than the fact that only a handful of the 60-70 silent films directed by John Ford still survive to this day. Ford, one of American […]

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A Troubling and Rewarding SHE WORE A YELLOW RIBBON

Mar 15, 2017 Nathanael Hood 1

So what actually happens in John Ford’s She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)? A cavalry troop leaves a lonely fort in the Old West, heads towards a destination, returns to the fort, goes back out […]

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Henry Hathaway: Portrait of an Underrated Artist

Oct 28, 2016 Nathanael Hood 1

At this year’s New York Film Festival, two retrospectives were planned to coincide with the release of Bertrand Tavernier’s new documentary My Journey Through French Cinema. The first was a collection of French films prominently […]

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The Cancerous Sh*ts show: John Wayne in THE CONQUEROR

May 26, 2016 The Retro Set 1

Ok, first a quick disclaimer: today is John Wayne’s birthday so, before actually diving into what our creative director calls “one of the most cancerous shit shows of all time”, understand that I’m actually a fan of […]

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B-Roll: John Ford’s THEY WERE EXPENDABLE (1945)

Mar 10, 2015 Nathanael Hood 0

Staff writer Nathanael Hood takes a look at the deeper cuts from legendary directors with the his column B-Roll. This week, Nathanael takes a look at John Ford’s THEY WERE EXPENDABLE (1943).  The year was 1945 and John […]

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