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John Wayne vs. Atticus Finch
News Story October 18, 1996
by Amy Smith
The Searchers
Film Review October 1, 1993
by Louis Black
Description: Regarded by many as Ford's masterpiece and one of the great films of all time, this John Wayne Western is a meditation on survival, the loss of faith, and the death of heroes.
by Louis Black
"...Directed by: John Ford. Starring: John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles, Ward Bond, Natalie Wood, Henry Brandon, Pat Wayne and Harry Carey Jr..."
Page Two: The Moment Belongs to the Music
Columns January 18, 2008
by Louis Black
Description: John Sayles' 'Honeydripper' takes flight
"...In American movies, the greatest acts of redemptive transcendence are often personal: Fred Astaire starting to dance or John Wayne standing in the road, holding a rifle. In great rock & roll movies, this moment belongs to the music..."
Running Scared
Film Review March 3, 2006
by Marc Savlov
Description: Wayne Kramer's follow-up to his crime drama The Cooler has no moral compass, and swings wildly out of control while blanketed in hyper-violent digital gore effects and a thick, black nausea of the soul. 
by Marc Savlov
"...The story follows young New Jersey (doubled by Prague) mob attaché Joey Gazelle (Walker) and his search for the missing chrome-plated revolver he was supposed to have dumped in the local river in the wake of a botched drug deal that left three crooked cops dead. As handguns are wont to do, the piece is stolen from its hiding place in Joey's basement by 10-year-old next-door neighbor Oleg (Bright), who then uses it to shoot his abusive, methamphetamine- addled Russian émigré father, Anzor (whose blighted sense of mission in life comes from John Wayne in Mark Rydell's 1972 oater The Cowboys)..."
Assault on Precinct 13
Film Review January 21, 2005
by Marc Savlov
Description: This new version of John Carpenter's classic is superfluous in the extreme, and while it’s not technically a bad movie, per se, viewers unfamiliar with the film’s lineage will likely write it off as yet another midwinter also-ran, the sort of action film that never quite takes off and instead focuses on random gun battles and cheesy dialogue. 
by Marc Savlov
"...John Carpenter’s 1976 Assault on Precinct 13 – a tight, lower-than-low-budget film about a rookie policeman (Austin Stoker) who finds himself and a clutch of prisoners and cops having the worst night of their lives when the abandoned precinct house he’s overseeing comes under siege from a marauding army of multiracial gangbangers – was itself a reimagining of Howard Hawks’ Rio Bravo. That film, one of the great director’s best, stars John Wayne and Dean Martin, and while Carpenter’s version lacked star power of any kind whatsoever, it more than made up for it with a crackling good script that featured enough quotable lines from Darwin Joston’s macho tough Napoleon Wilson ("Got a smoke?") to more than compensate for the flimsy set design and occasionally off-kilter line readings..."
Owning Mahowny
Film Review June 20, 2003
by Marjorie Baumgarten
Description: Part cautionary tale, part psychological study, Owning Mahowny tells the 1982-set story of Dan Mahowny, a rising Toronto bank executive with a gambling addiction, who siphoned $10.2 million from his...
by Marjorie Baumgarten
"...Hurt, in his shiny silk suits, presides over his casino like the Devil in Hell, taking true pleasure in his patrons’ addiction and yelling "fucking headhunters" when the Las Vegas boys try to mooch in on his Mahowny action. Hurt, who paired so brilliantly with director Kwietniowski in Love and Death on Long Island, also amazes in Owning Mahowny; there’s potential here for these two to become one of the great actor/director combos of the cinema, like John Ford and John Wayne or Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune..."
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Film Review July 29, 1999
by Marjorie Baumgarten
Description: Arguably,the best John Ford film ever, certainly one the very best, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is an American classic. This is the movie that uses the now-famous line:...
by Marjorie Baumgarten
"...Directed by: John Ford. Starring: James Stewart, John Wayne, Vera Miles, Lee Marvin, Edmond O'Brien, Andy Devine, Woody Strode, Strother Martin, Lee Van Cleef and John Carradine..."
Donovan's Reef
Film Review July 29, 1999
by Marjorie Baumgarten
Description: I never truly understood John Ford until I began appreciating his comedies. Donovan's Reef was the one that did it for me. Supremely goofy in tone, the film pits Wayne...
by Marjorie Baumgarten
"...Directed by: John Ford. Starring: John Wayne, Lee Marvin, Jack Warden, Elizabeth Allen, Cesar Romero and Dorothy Lamour..."
Fantastic Fest: 'A Town Called Panic'
Screens Blog September 24, 2009
by Kimberley Jones
Description: This French-language stop-motion film journeys all the way to the center of the earth and back.
"...(Think that’s absurd? Ya ain’t seen nothin’ yet.) Some of the voicework irritates (Aubier's Cowboy, especially, is a Gumby-esque squealer), but the delight here is in the details – the threesome’s bathroom is tricked-out to accommodate equine and otherwise – and in the unfailingly decent Horse. He’s John Wayne in the mold of Mr..."
Day Trips
Columns August 21, 2009
by Gerald E. McLeod
Description: Alamo Village, where John Wayne shot The Alamo, has lost the 93-year-old matriarch who kept the movie set and Western-themed park open for nearly 50 years
"...Alamo Village outside of Brackettville, where John Wayne shot the 1960 movie The Alamo, has lost the 93-year-old matriarch who kept the movie set and Western-themed park open for nearly 50 years...."
Page Two: Winning the West
Columns June 12, 2009
by Louis Black
Description: Cowboys, Indians, and the irresolvable contradictions between freedom and order
"..."How can I hate John Wayne upholding Goldwater and yet love him tenderly when he sweeps Natalie Wood into his arms in the last reel of The Searchers?" – Jean-Luc Godard..."
Harry Knowles, Pedazo Chunk, and the Independent Video Store
Screens Blog January 18, 2009
by Marc Savlov
Description: Harry on indie video stores
"...I look at it beyond Austin. When I was growing up in Seymour, Texas, population 3,000, there was one mom and pop store that would have one new release a week and otherwise had an astonishing array of John Wayne titles and Clint Eastwood movies, you know? But because my parents were video geeks, I had 3,000 to 4,000 titles at home..."
Closing Arguments
Screens Blog August 22, 2008
by Josh Rosenblatt
Description: Olivier versus Branagh
"...And secondly, if you had bothered to watch any of John Wayne’s underrated 20th Century Fox silent B-movie pirate classics, like Daredevilry on the High Seas, Hard to Starboard!, The Big Storm, The Big Storm II: Change of Socks, or Jub Jub the Chimpanzee vs. the Barbary Pirates, you’d know that he spent the better part of his early career soaking wet..."
The Sunny Side to Every Situation
Screens Blog August 21, 2008
by Kimberley Jones
Description: Defending Ethan Hawke and the virtues of John Wayne in a wet shirt
"...Also a revelation – then and now: Who knew John Wayne looked so good in a wet shirt?..."
Appreciation Society
Music Story August 15, 2008
by Audra Schroeder
Description: Shapes Have Fangs bite into a Kinks klassic
"...for four years] was just horrible. I read they played a high school in Illinois, and no one showed up except for John Wayne Gacy, who booked the show...."
Film Fight Field Trip ... With One Quick Rejoinder
Screens Blog July 9, 2008
by Josh Rosenblatt
"...John Wayne, by the way, would never have been caught dead in tights...."
Living With 'Monstrosities'
Arts Story June 27, 2008
by Wayne Alan Brenner
Description: Jen Hirt and Scott Webel and their Museum of Natural and Artificial Ephemerata
"...What is it about an object's context, sometimes, or the fame of an object's owner – like John Wayne's Frankenstein Lightbulb or Marilyn Monroe's Last Cigarette Butt – that makes it worthy of displaying, that gives it a sort of aura of enchantment? Even assuming the provenance is authentic, why do people find value in such things?..."
Your Library Wants These Bad
Arts Story May 2, 2008
by Wayne Alan Brenner
Description: How do we recommend these books highly enough? What miracles of precision can be created with pen-and-ink?
"...Say what? Say: It's an alternative history that begins with Davy Crockett surviving the battle of the Alamo, Texas remaining an independent republic, an alien spacecraft crashing in Roswell, and things getting weirder from there. Much, much weirder, with all manner of cameos from celebrities from our reality – e.g., John Wayne, Frank Sinatra, Gene Roddenberry, Marie Curie – figuring strongly, in new guises, in an outlandish narrative that'll appeal to any pop-culture fans who like a bit of conspiracy theory sprinkled on top of their flakes of sci-fi goodness..."
Bloggers in Print
Books Story May 2, 2008
by Wells Dunbar
Description: Political bloggers pick up the pen.
"...His third book, Great American Hypocrites, follows a simple idea, exemplified in the empty flight-suit theatrics of our Vietnam-avoiding president or the values-sermonizing of bathroom-trolling Sen. Larry Craig: "[T]hose who playact as powerful Tough Guys and anti-Terrorist Warriors and Crusaders for the Values Voters have lives filled with weakness, fear, unbridled hedonism, unearned privilege, sheltered insulation, and none of the 'Traditional Masculine Virtues' they endlessly tout." He devotes his opening chapter to deconstructing John Wayne, to whom Greenwald personifies the modern right, albeit not in a fashion they'd prefer: war avoidance, broken marriages, and pill-popping..."
Letters @ 3AM
Columns April 25, 2008
by Michael Ventura
Description: Globalization isn't only something that's happening to our economy: Globalization is happening to us – to our bodies, our families, and our psyches
"...In 1960, the American identity was embodied by the likes of John Wayne and Marilyn Monroe, Jimmy Stewart and Katharine Hepburn. The America that counted traced its roots to northern, Protestant Europe (except for those wild Irish)..."
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