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John Wayne and John Ford collaborated on some of the Hollywood Golden Age's best-loved Westerns from She Wore a Yellow Ribbon to The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. Perhaps their most famous was 1956's The Searchers, which is on BBC Two this afternoon. The film saw Duke play a Civil War veteran spending years searching for his abducted niece, played by Natalie Wood.

Tim Gray Senior Vice PresidentThe Motion Picture & Television Fund, celebrating its 100th anniversary, might be the most active, admired — and most misunderstood — organization in Hollywood. Silent screen star Mary Pickford started the philanthropic org under the name Motion Picture Relief Fund (it was renamed in 1971).Over the century, entertainment’s biggest heavyweights gave support.

“Welcome to the 48th, 49th, and 50th AFI Life Achievement Awards,”  American Film Institute President and CEO Bob Gazzale stated as he began his welcoming remarks for Thursday night’s long awaited and long pandemic- delayed tribute to Julie Andrews, the 2022 honoree at a ceremony originally  set to take place in the spring of 2020 that now finally happened with all style and warmth so familiar to these AFI evenings ever since AFI founder George Stevens Jr. came up with the idea in 1973 when director John Ford was the first honoree (Stevens, now 90, was there and acknowledged from the stage last night). Since then there has never been a “gap” between cereomonies but now there is between 2019 honoree Denzel Washington and Andrews, but it was well worth the wait, and congratulations to the AFI, Board Trustees Chairs Kathleen Kennedy and Bob Daly as well as Gazzale (who is also Executive Producer of the show which will air on TNT June 16 at 10pm) for not letting Covid diminish the event, even if it had to come a little later than usual,and every member of the audience at the Dolby Theatre (transformed into a banquet setting for the elegant dinner) had to take a PCR test at least 48 hours before entering the building. Other than that it was just like old times and you could tell the industry crowd was thrilled to be there for a genuine show business legend. The only sad part was that Andrews’ The Sound Of Music co-star Christopher Plummer was not there. The Oscar winning actor had actually been set to appear at the tribute when it was originally to take place before the pandemic had other ideas. He died in Feburary of last year at age 91.

on Instagram. “Please keep them in your prayers. What an incredible legacy he leaves behind.”Seals & Crofts helmed the era of soft rock, with a string of hit tracks in the ’70s including “Summer Breeze,” “Diamond Girl” and “Get Closer,” which featured Carolyn Willis.

Steven Gaydos Executive VP of ContentNearly a half-century has passed since Elvis left the building, permanently. Australian auteur Baz Luhrmann has just unleashed “Elvis,” his big, bold, nearly three-hour biopic, at Cannes and that Warner Bros. bet appears to have paid off.

Aissa explained that the late actor largely differed from the self-confident, stoic characters he played on-screen. She said that he was largely driven by insecurity and complexity and wasn’t as straightforward as his film characters would suggest. The writer used an anecdote about Marlon Brando to convert her point. She said that, at the height of his fame, Marlon was “eyeing (my) mother”. Continuing, Aissa wrote: “Maybe she didn’t hear they’d been married, perhaps he had and didn’t care.“Brando was barely 30, gorgeous and arrogant, sizzling with success.” She explained that Marlon sent a friend over to ask John if he could have an evening with his wife. “My father said one word: ‘no!’” Aissa added that in the same evening, her father went into a “jealous rage”. “It was my mom’s first glimpse of his dark side. “She realised, only then, that my father was not the characters he played on the screen. “Men who not only had self-assurance, they reeked of it.” Aissa said that he was “more complicated than that”. He was driven by "insecurity and pride", she furthered. She further explained the relationship between Marlon and John in her book. Despite the two being major stars in Hollywood around the same time, neither of them were ever much more than acquaintances. Aissa claimed they didn’t get along very well. She said that, despite respecting his talent, “my father and Marlon weren’t friends.” Aissa added that director John Ford once wanted both actors for a film he was making. She explained that Marlon refused to be in the film because he didn’t like John Ford’s style. Aissa admitted her father didn’t like his attitude and didn’t extend the friendship. 

Clayton Davis The final voting for Sunday’s 94th Oscars has closed. What can we expect?A two-year global pandemic, which is still in progress, changed the mindset of humankind, and the Hollywood industry. The awards season seemed to be back on track but just prior to the holiday break, events were being postponed, and a familiar dark passenger started showing its face once again, under different name variants.It’s no secret that Oscar voters have been looking for a good mood.

With his 8th Oscar nomination for directing today, Steven Spielberg joins a very select group of four filmmakers who have received 8-plus Best Director nominations. They include Billy Wilder, who also has 8, his contemporary Martin Scorsese, who has 9, and the great William Wyler, who earned 11 total directing nominations.

Natalie was a child star who successfully made the transition to young adult roles, going on to lead an illustrious career. She won four Golden Globes and three Academy Award nominations in her time, starring in at least 31 films. As a teenager, she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in 'Rebel Without a Cause' in 1955, followed by a role in John Ford's 'The Searchers' in 1956.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticIt’s tempting to think of the first “Star Wars” movie as ground zero for the new era of popular culture. (You might say that the 21st century began, in spirit, the day “Star Wars” opened.) But part of the primal power of George Lucas’s sci-fi landmark is that it represented a kind of dawn-of-the-digital-age, joystick-happy recycling of many, many things from the past.

Naman Ramachandran French filmmaker Arthur Harari’s “Onoda – 10 000 Nights In The Jungle” will open the Un Certain Regard section of Cannes’ Official Selection. The film tells the story of soldier Hiroo Onoda who was sent to an island in the Philippines in 1944 to fight against the American forces.

If Chloé Zhao manages to nab this year's directing Oscar for Nomadland, she won't be the first to win for a drama about down-on-their-luck itinerant workers making their way across the American West. John Ford was awarded the statuette in 1941 for his adaptation of the John Steinbeck novel The Grapes of Wrath, which sees the Joad family abandon the Oklahoma farm they lost to the Great Depression and Dust Bowl and head to California — a fabled promised land — in a broken-down 1926 Hudson Super Six sedan.

I blame Frank Capra and John Ford and Aaron Sorkin … and even Steven Spielberg. Because of them, my idea of American politics was forever captured by the image of a rumpled Jimmy Stewart standing up to the forces of evil in Mr.

Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic“Cowboys” taps directly into the myth of the American male, with his leather boots and blue jeans, square jaw and wide stance, as immortalized in the collective imagination by painter Frederick Remington, director John Ford and decades of Marlboro tobacco advertising. But it does so with a twist: This debut feature from Anna Kerrigan explores how that tough-guy archetype impresses itself on a gender-nonconforming child.

Eureka! has got in touch in regards to their upcoming release of Rio Grande, John Ford’s excellent John Wayne-led movie from 1950. The release is part of the distributor’s ‘Masters Of Cinema’ series and will arrive later this month.

Linda Cristal, the Golden Globe-winning actress who portrayed Victoria Cannon, the wife of Leif Erickson's character, on the 1967-71 NBC WesternThe High Chaparral, has died. She was 89.