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I plan this was a mountainous documentary, originally released in 1971, directed by Peter Bogdanovich, and Narrated by Orson Welles. This documentary aired on TCM in 2006 and the viewers went CRAZY, it was #5 or #6 on their list of films most requested to be on DVD. I recorded it on VHS relieve in ‘06, and will be buying this commercial release in September. This documentary has interviews with John Ford (Of Crude), John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart, Henry Fonda, Clint Eastwood, Martin Scorsese, and Steven Spielberg… (Eastwood, Scorsese, and Speilberg’s interviews were added in 2006 when Bogdanovich re-cut it, along with some other footage that was not in the novel 1971 release.) I don’t suggest this documentary for everyone, if you are an avid movie fan (Like Me) who enjoys seeing people mediate on their careers and other stars telling stories about things that happened on movie sets then you’ll cherish it as I do, but if you aren’t fervent in such types of documentaries than this is not for you. Also, if you are a Stout John Ford fan look out Mr. Ford’s AFI Salute (Only on VHS at this time) .
I last saw this film 30 years ago, and it left such an impression on me, it has been at the top of my “Why isn’t this on video? ” list ever since. In a plot, I’m blissful I missed seeing it on TCM–on DVD, the re-edit of the new plus the improved quality of the clips makes it like meeting an venerable worship and finding her more fair than ever.
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The interview material added since 1971 (particularly Maureen O’Hara’s 1992 contribution) really helps to define why Ford was so hilariously contrarian in his new contact with Bogdonovich. There is a distinguished fuller sense of John Ford as a person than in the recent film. Spielberg, Eastwood, Scorsese and others support space his work in an artistic context.
But the genuine thrill of the film is in the clips themselves. Bogdonovich had objective done his first feature, a B-movie starring Boris Karloff, and would go on to invent three masterpieces in a row. DIRECTED BY JOHN FORD, falling in the midst of this progression, is really like a allotment of found art, in which he lovingly assembles pieces of Ford’s films to get something entirely his maintain. The talking head portions are beautifully shot on 35mm, and fit seamlessly into the material of the clips. Also, to listen to Fonda, Stewart, and Wayne is to luxuriate in how skilled they all are as raconteurs.
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DIRECTED BY JOHN FORD calls attention to the irony that is so easily overlooked in Ford’s films, and makes a point of showing Ford to be not so remarkable a chronicler of American History as an archivist of the myths and rituals of American History.
Even for those not fully convinced of Ford’s genius, this documentary is a distinguished primer on how to understand film art. It is also a lovely example of film art in its contain proper.
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