"When he was doing a picture on the Fox lot, the associate producer questioned the way he was setting up a shot. Ford asked him how he would like to do it, and the man explained it to him. Ford very obligingly made the changes, shot the scene that way, and then asked if it was satisfactory. When he heard that it was, he took the film magazine off the camera, and handed it to the associate producer with the words, 'Here's your scene. Now I will shoot it my way.'" (Colin Young)
America on celluloid. A vision of the past transcending the circumstances under which they were created. Myth and history in the same body of work. A master.
To anyone who have belief of movie, 'John Ford world' is a treasure or guilty pleasure
I just watched John Ford's Cheyenne Autumn. It was a great film, beautifully shot with a great story and needs to be added to the Mubi database asap.
Long lost John Ford film "Upstream" (1929) which was thought of as being lost was found along with 74 other lost films in 2009. Thanks to the New Zealand Film Archive, it will screen in September at the home of the Academy Awards.http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/08/03/2972124.htm?section=entertainment