John Ford

Sounds Like My Favorite Fish

By Phil Berardelli ScienceNOW Daily News Some of the killer whales off the coast of Washington state are picky eaters, preferring Chinook salmon even though the coho and sockeye varieties are much more plentiful. Researchers...

A Movie A Day: Quint on JUDGE PRIEST (1934) Lord help you, white child! What them Yankees been...

Ahoy, squirts! The aim isn’t to focus on race or excuse the South’s positions during the war, but to look fondly at these men as people. The opening crawl is a note from Mr. Cobb explaining that he grew up knowing many of these...

An Interview with Arnaud Desplechin

"One of the things that I think cinema does that no other art does is that you can really have things that are noble and things that are not noble, and they’re of equal value. And things that are popular versus things that are...

Film treasures of Europe available online

FILM treasures of Europe from the early years of the 20th Century, including a number from France, are available to view online in their entirety. The Europa Film Treasures website has drawn together 50 full-length videos from...

D.M. man’s ’Sleeping Dogs’ heads for stage

A drama that centers around the emotional and disturbing circumstances of two mothers seeking details of a car accident that involved their sons is the winner of the third annual Iowa Playwrights Workshop.

The Films of Budd Boetticher

DVD Reviews: Budd Boetticher's life story is one of Hollywood's more unusual. A privileged Midwestern rich kid who found himself a bullfighter in Mexico and then, serendipitously, a film director more admired than famous,...

Philip French's screen legends

No 35Maureen O'Hara 1920-Born in Dublin, second of the six children of a Catholic businessman and Protestant opera singer, she was christened Maureen FitzSimons. Like four of her siblings, she trained for the stage (the fifth...

A Movie A Day: Quint on John Ford's UP THE RIVER (1930) Extortionist? Honey, was you in the circus?

Ahoy, squirts! What we have here with today’s AMAD is John Ford’s early comedy, UP THE RIVER, following Spencer Tracy back from yesterday’s marvelous LIBELED LADY. I came to include this film in the AMAD line-up when I happened...

Ken Schwab is Discovery senior VP, programming

MUMBAI: Discovery has appointed veteran television executive Ken Schwab to senior VP, programming. He takes up this position in January 2009. Discovery president GM John Ford says, "Ken's 14 years of experience at Turner and...

US collector donates rare Shakespeare texts to Globe theatre

Treasure ... The First folio of the 1623 edition Shakespeare's Complete Works, sold at Sotheby's in 2006. Photograph: Martin Argles A prized collection of texts by William Shakespeare has been pledged to the Globe theatre in...