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Directed by John Ford'
An Ode to Filmmaking’s Master of the Western Horizon
By SUSAN STEWART
The New York Times
November 7, 2006
The director John Ford made more than 135 movies. Most were westerns, many were silent pictures, and a substantial number starred John Wayne at his most unabashedly sentimental. Ford was difficult to know and almost impossible to interview. It is hard to imagine a tougher subject for a documentary.
It is also hard to imagine a more spellbinding film than “Directed by John Ford,” tonight on TCM. The filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich, perhaps as inspired by the cantankerousness of the director as by the beauty of his movies, has created a work of surpassing charm and insight. It’s the kind of program that makes you admire movies you’ve never seen and understand why you love the ones you have.
Mr. Bogdanovich actually made “Ford” in 1971. This new version retains Orson Welles’s fluid narration and delightful interviews with Ford’s triumvirate of leading men: Henry Fonda, Jimmy Stewart and John Wayne. Those interviews, which include a three-minute anecdote from Stewart, are performances in themselves, made more precious by the fact that none of the three actors are still alive.
The retooled “Ford” adds talking-head segments with Clint Eastwood, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg and Walter Hill, who are all both rapturous and astute in their assessments of Ford. The other notable addition is audiotape of a 1973 meeting between Ford, who was dying, and Katharine Hepburn (his onetime love interest). On the tape, the gruff Ford tells Hepburn that he loves her. She returns the favor.
As John Wayne says of Ford, “He has a keen sense of when a thing is sentimental and when it is maudlin.” The overheard conversation between Ford and Hepburn shows that Ford could play a scene as well as direct one.
Ford was notoriously anti-chatter. In a hilariously awkward interview, the director is asked by Mr. Bogdanovich what he thinks of dialogue. Chomping a cigar, Ford grumbles: “Oh, it’s necessary. I mean, people expect it now.”
It’s generally not the dialogue you remember from a Ford movie; it’s the pictures. And for all its brilliant conversation, Mr. Bogdanovich’s documentary turns on the movies themselves, with copious clips from “The Searchers,” “Young Mr. Lincoln” and “How Green Was My Valley,” among others.
The clips make points. A teenage Steven Spielberg was given a one-minute audience with Ford, who told him that placing the horizon is the secret of “picture-making.” Cut to clips from Ford westerns. Suddenly all you see are horizons.
Mr. Bogdanovich doesn’t use clips just to illustrate his ideas; he creates moods, even as he explains the techniques filmmakers use to create moods. He gets help from lush Ford scores. (“Red River Valley” is heard at least three times, the Welsh hymn “Cwm Rhondda” at least twice.) Form and content and head and heart meet in a magical blend that feels very much like the art it is describing.
“Directed by John Ford” makes a compelling case that its subject was a great movie director. It doesn’t hurt Mr. Bogdanovich’s reputation, either.
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- Captura de TCM de buena calidad, debe ser TD-Rip o similar. Versión restaurada/resucitada de 2006 por Turner Classic Movies
- Ver Cambios en la nueva versión 2006 (ninguno Lucasiano)
- Desconozco si hay subs, siquiera en francés, (si mal no recuerdo y aunque sea irrelevante, en el libro de Bogdanovich cuenta que se en su día se estrenó en el homenaje a Ford del festival de Cannes) . En la red hay un fragmento de la intempestiva entrevista hispasubtitulado, (porque está sacado de un documental de Scorsesse)
John Ford: el azote del entrevistador
John Ford y su ego contra Peter Bogdanovich
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Directed.by.John.Ford.(Peter.Bogdanovich.1971).TCMRip.avi 
An Ode to Filmmaking’s Master of the Western Horizon
By SUSAN STEWART
The New York Times
November 7, 2006
The director John Ford made more than 135 movies. Most were westerns, many were silent pictures, and a substantial number starred John Wayne at his most unabashedly sentimental. Ford was difficult to know and almost impossible to interview. It is hard to imagine a tougher subject for a documentary.
It is also hard to imagine a more spellbinding film than “Directed by John Ford,” tonight on TCM. The filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich, perhaps as inspired by the cantankerousness of the director as by the beauty of his movies, has created a work of surpassing charm and insight. It’s the kind of program that makes you admire movies you’ve never seen and understand why you love the ones you have.
Mr. Bogdanovich actually made “Ford” in 1971. This new version retains Orson Welles’s fluid narration and delightful interviews with Ford’s triumvirate of leading men: Henry Fonda, Jimmy Stewart and John Wayne. Those interviews, which include a three-minute anecdote from Stewart, are performances in themselves, made more precious by the fact that none of the three actors are still alive.
The retooled “Ford” adds talking-head segments with Clint Eastwood, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg and Walter Hill, who are all both rapturous and astute in their assessments of Ford. The other notable addition is audiotape of a 1973 meeting between Ford, who was dying, and Katharine Hepburn (his onetime love interest). On the tape, the gruff Ford tells Hepburn that he loves her. She returns the favor.
As John Wayne says of Ford, “He has a keen sense of when a thing is sentimental and when it is maudlin.” The overheard conversation between Ford and Hepburn shows that Ford could play a scene as well as direct one.
Ford was notoriously anti-chatter. In a hilariously awkward interview, the director is asked by Mr. Bogdanovich what he thinks of dialogue. Chomping a cigar, Ford grumbles: “Oh, it’s necessary. I mean, people expect it now.”
It’s generally not the dialogue you remember from a Ford movie; it’s the pictures. And for all its brilliant conversation, Mr. Bogdanovich’s documentary turns on the movies themselves, with copious clips from “The Searchers,” “Young Mr. Lincoln” and “How Green Was My Valley,” among others.
The clips make points. A teenage Steven Spielberg was given a one-minute audience with Ford, who told him that placing the horizon is the secret of “picture-making.” Cut to clips from Ford westerns. Suddenly all you see are horizons.
Mr. Bogdanovich doesn’t use clips just to illustrate his ideas; he creates moods, even as he explains the techniques filmmakers use to create moods. He gets help from lush Ford scores. (“Red River Valley” is heard at least three times, the Welsh hymn “Cwm Rhondda” at least twice.) Form and content and head and heart meet in a magical blend that feels very much like the art it is describing.
“Directed by John Ford” makes a compelling case that its subject was a great movie director. It doesn’t hurt Mr. Bogdanovich’s reputation, either.
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This is the 110 minute, remastered, longer version, shown recently in 11/2006.
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No. of audio streams ..: 1- Ver Cambios en la nueva versión 2006 (ninguno Lucasiano)
- El audio a veces está un pelín desincronizado , pero no he querido -intentar- arreglarlo porque ya estaba compartido parcialmente en el emule, aunque sin fuentes completas, creo que es mejor no duplicar enlaces. Yo lo descargué vía torrente karagargiano, de sigloxxCorolario escribió:This restructured version of DIRECTED BY JOHN FORD should be considered an entirely new work. Bogdanovich has said this updated version is more personal than the original. Both the original Orson Welles narration and the interviews with John Ford, John Wayne, James Stewart and Henry Fonda have been kept intact but somewhat re-edited and rearranged to give a new sense of understanding to John Ford as a person and director.
- Desconozco si hay subs, siquiera en francés, (si mal no recuerdo y aunque sea irrelevante, en el libro de Bogdanovich cuenta que se en su día se estrenó en el homenaje a Ford del festival de Cannes) . En la red hay un fragmento de la intempestiva entrevista hispasubtitulado, (porque está sacado de un documental de Scorsesse)
John Ford: el azote del entrevistador
Los genios ya se sabe cómo son, humiiiildes con avaricia. Ahí tenéis, por ejemplo, al legendario director de cine John Ford. Cuando le preguntaban por su obra, se hacía el desentendido como si la cosa no fuera con él e incluso se mostraba irritado por el interés que despertaba. ¿Pose? No, que va.
No os perdáis esta antológica entrevista o, mejor dicho, esta no-entrevista que le realizó en 1971, dos años antes de que falleciera, Peter Bogdanovich para su documental “Directed by John Ford”, en la que el responsable de “Centauros del desierto” aparece sobradísimo y de vuelta de todo. ¡Tronchante!
Por cierto, este breve fragmento está extraído del imprescindible documental “A personal journey with Martin Scorsese through American movies”, donde Tito Marty nos ofrece un maravilloso recorrido a través de la Historia del Cine Americano. Háganse con él, no se arrepentirán. Y, de paso, lean la estupenda crítica que le ha dedicado Rosenrod en Dioses y Monstruos.
John Ford y su ego contra Peter Bogdanovich
Filmografías afiliadas : John Ford - Peter BogdanovichPobre Peter, lo que tuvo que sufrir cuando entrevistó al gran John Ford, en 1971 para su documental Directed by John Ford. “Cuenta la leyenda” que este documental estaba prácticamente perdido, hasta que a finales del 2006 el canal Turner Classic Movies de EE.UU. lo programó, en una versión extendida y reeditada por el propio Peter Bogdanovich. En este clip podemos disfrutar de las monosilábicas respuestas del viejo Ford. A los grandes se les perdona todo.
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Directed.by.John.Ford.(Peter.Bogdanovich.1971).TCMRip.avi 
jo, estuve a un pelo de Juno de poner lo de Redux! 
