ANNOUNCEMENT: THE PEDRO ALMODOVAR MARATHON
I’m not sure if anyone out there would call this filmmaker blindspot egregious, but somehow I feel it is. With two marathons complete this year (John Cassavetes & John Ford) I feel a need to…
WHAT I HAVE TO SAY ON THE FILMMAKING OF JOHN FORD
If there’s one thing this marathon taught me is that five films isn’t barely enough to get to know a director. Unlike the Cassavetes, where I had watched ten of his films before writing a…
MOVIE REVIEW: FORT APACHE (1948)
This film is the beginning of me completing a small John Ford Marathon. Feel free to continue along with. Every so often we get to see a movie that’s set in the 40s, 50s or…
ANNOUNCEMENT: A MINI JOHN FORD MARATHON
There seemed to be a lot of response to my marathon of John Cassavetes recently so here I am at it again filling in some more cinematic blind spots with another great American filmmaker. This…
JOHN CASSAVETES MARATHON ENDING EARLY; BUT STILL SOME DISCUSSION TO BE HAD
Mid-November last year I announced that I would be attempting to make it through the catalogue of films directed by John Cassavetes. Approximately twelve weeks later I have so far watched and reviewed ten of…