Marking one year of releases from yours truly, Dolly Back celebrates by gazing into the sunsetting Western, epitomized by John Ford's incredible The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance! A master who has grown weary of desert plains and gunplay - and making films at all! - leaps back into the saddle to write a eulogy for the mythology he and the medium helped edify in the American consciousness. A lawyer, a gunslinger, and an outlaw walk into a bar... and democracy erupts! In examination of its uniquely theatrical cinematography, brilliant blocking, and poetic narrative, your hosts cap off their first season with facts and legend in equal measure!
David Bordwell's Article for Film Comment - THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE
Marking one year of releases from yours truly, Dolly Back celebrates by gazing into the sunsetting Western, epitomized by John Ford's incredible The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance! A master who has grown weary of desert plains and gunplay - and making films at all! - leaps back into the saddle to write a eulogy for the mythology he and the medium helped edify in the American consciousness. A lawyer, a gunslinger, and an outlaw walk into a bar... and democracy erupts! In examination of its uniquely theatrical cinematography, brilliant blocking, and poetic narrative, your hosts cap off their first season with facts and legend in equal measure!
David Bordwell's Article for Film Comment - THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE