https://cinephiliabeyond.org/john-fords-the-searchers-the-essential-film-of-american-culture-and-identity/ Films and Filmmaking Fri, 13 Mar 2026 21:31:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/john-fords-the-searchers-the-essential-film-of-american-culture-and-identity/#comment-1405 Thu, 17 Feb 2022 14:38:54 +0000 http://www.cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=18698#comment-1405 […] “The Searchers” played to Scorsese as an evolution, or even a culmination, of earlier movies that Ford had made with John Wayne. Before he paid attention to who got the director’s credit, his focus was on the movie stars. John Wayne, gun-toting, slow-talking western hero, led the charge. Going to these movies repeatedly, Scorsese “began to realize what a director did … translate ideas into images.”  […]

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]]> https://cinephiliabeyond.org/john-fords-the-searchers-the-essential-film-of-american-culture-and-identity/#comment-129 Sun, 11 Oct 2015 15:44:00 +0000 http://www.cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=18698#comment-129 That screenplay is even darker and more brutal than the movie. A great read.

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