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Directed by John Ford (1971)

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A documentary that required mandatory blindspot watches and made us into unexpected John Ford guys. What can we say, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance gets to us all! In the first Bogdanodoc, he used his journalistic know-how and nerdy love for film scholarship to convince the AFI to make a John Ford documentary (deal with it Frank Capra). Featuring interviews from Henry Fonda, John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart, and even the grumpy and honestly fitted out John Ford himself, Bogdanovich crafts a love letter to the directorial work and authorship of ol’ Jack. Even if the doc perhaps feels like 60% a clip show at times, in these hosts’ opinion…

 

In this episode we discuss box office headache of Angel Studios, the upcoming Jimmy Stewart biopic starring Archie from Riverdale, Bogdanovich’s notorious pastel yellow sweater, our good friend Varang, and David Lynch’s knockout performance as Ford in The Fabelmans.

 

Next Episode: Duck, You Sucker! (1971) (AKA: A Fistful of Dynamite)

 

Further “Reading”

  • Directed by John Ford (1971) [original AFI release version and Re-Splice Edit]
  • By Bogdanovich (2011)
  • AFI LIfetime Achievement Award: A Tribute to John Ford (1973) (recorded from Japanese TV)
  • Picturing Peter Bogdanovich by Peter Tonguette
  • Searching for John Ford by Joseph McBride [Internet Archive]
  • 'The Autumn of John Ford’ by Peter Bogdanovich for Esquire (April 1,1964)
  • ‘AFI honors its roots’ by Pamela McClintock for Variety (August 28, 2006) (Learn more about Bog’s one man show, “Sacred Monsters,” which does not seem to exist in any recorded form)
  • ‘John Ford: Ford focus’ by Geoffrey MacNab for The Independent (July 14, 2006)
  • ‘Bogdanovich Points 'John Ford' In Right Direction’ by Tim Lammers for WESH (November 7, 2006)
  • You Must Remember This - “Polly Platt, The Invisible Woman, Episode 2 - Peter Bogdanovich and the Woman Behind the Auteur”
  • Trailer for the new awful-looking Jimmy Stewart movie
  • Orson Welles Wine Commercial

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