Tag: John Ford
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‘Steppenwolf’ Director on How Hermann Hesse, John Ford, Samurai Stories Inspired Violent Kazakh Film, Teaser Debuts, Next Project Revealed (Exclusive)
There is a certain inevitability about a film inspired by Hermann Hesse’s novel “Steppenwolf,” first published in German in 1927, and two famous Westerns of the 1950s — John Ford’s “The Searchers,” and Howard Hawks’ “Red River.” The film, also called “Steppenwolf,” has its world premiere at International Film Festival Rotterdam in the Big Screen…
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This Spaghetti Western Is Unlike Any Other Film in the Genre
Director Sergio Corbucci may be best known for his film Django, though his most respected Western work is arguably in fact The Great Silence, which subverts the genre of the Western on almost every level, deconstructing its mythmaking with a heavy dose of stark reality and pointed political allegory. Though only the second most well-known…
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Charles Bronson & Toshirō Mifune Teamed Up in This Samurai Spaghetti Western
Looking through the lens of pop culture, it can sometimes seem that the Spaghetti Western genre begins and ends with Sergio Leone. The same lens can also reduce the samurai genre down to the work of Akira Kurosawa. Not that being so completely defined by two masters of cinema is such a bad thing, but…
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Sofia Coppola’s Remake Improved on This Clint Eastwood Western
The Western has been one of the most popular American film genres since the silent era of cinema. Even if 1939’s Stagecoach is credited with creating the modern version of the genre, Westerns existed before John Ford’s classic, and they have evolved significantly in the eight decades that followed. Many of these stories have become…
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This John Wayne Western Rom-Com Was Based on a Shakespeare Play
John Wayne had an absolute monopoly over the greatest Western characters of all-time for almost three decades. After his star-making performance in John Ford’s influential 1939 classic Stagecoach, Wayne starred in innumerable films within the Western genre for filmmakers like Howard Hawks and William Wellman. Wayne could have probably starred in nothing but Westerns for…
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10 Best Western Remakes, Ranked
Audiences have saddled up for Westerns since the early days of film, pioneered by notable names and classic stars such as John Ford, Howard Hawks and John Wayne. Some of the most iconic Westerns like The Searchers and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly appear to have developed a sense of loyalty and an…
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9 Best Western TV Miniseries of All Time, Ranked
Since the early days of film, Westerns have been a popular genre among audiences, further established by legendary films like the John Ford classic, The Searchers and The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, before the arrival of memorable television series including The Rifleman, Wagon Train, and How the West Was Won. Today, the classic…
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John Ford’s Most Expressionist Movie Is This 1928 Silent Drama
John Ford is best known for directing some of the most iconic Westerns of the mid-twentieth century. From Stagecoach to The Searchers to How The West Was Won to his Calvary trilogy and more, Ford’s filmography is largely a list of gun-slinging, horse-racing, desert-dwelling American movies that defined a generation. That being noted, with a…