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Big Bad Love
"...in everyone from the great R.L. Burnside to T-Model Ford as well as perennial out-of-bounders like Tom Waits and..."

April 19, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Spike & Mike's Sick & Twisted Festival of Animation 2001
"...Firestones, having long since passed from the scene.) Henry Ford's eponymous automotive corporate entity may have a slow sales..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

A Piece of Eden
"...today as it was 60 years ago when John Ford let the ghost of Tom Joad loose on the..."

July 21, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

I Got the Hook-Up
"...and sundries out of the rear of their battered Ford Econoline that sits unmoving in a ravaged corner lot..."

June 5, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Firestorm
"...Scott Glenn, William Forsythe, Suzy Amis, Christianne Hirt, Garwin Sanford, Sebastian Spence and Michael Greyeyes. If nothing else, Firestorm..."

Jan. 9, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Spitfire Grill
"...whose superlative performances outweigh its frequent narrative clichés. Former Ford model Alison Elliott (The Underneath) makes you believe in..."

Sept. 6, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

I Am Cuba
I Am Cuba was actually shot as an elaborate pro-Castro piece of Soviet propaganda, but instead it's as if everyone in question just went gaga, drunk on the sheer beauty of Cuba and making up new film techniques as they went along. The film is a stylistically brilliant quartet of vignettes set during the waning years of the Batista regime. The interconnecting stories that propel the film along were written by Russian poet laureate Yevgeny Yevtushenko.
"...under the aegis of both Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola, the film is a stylistically brilliant quartet of..."

July 28, 1995 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
"...the way you might expect. The film follows Francis Ford Coppola's take on another Gothic story, Bram Stoker's Dracula,..."

Nov. 11, 1994 Movie Review by Robert Faires

City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold
"...(again). Like a set of retreads on a '64 Ford pickup truck (the kind that's already 90% gray primer..."

June 17, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Snapper
"...of a drunken groping on the hood of a Ford Cortina, Sharon barely remembers who it was that put..."

Feb. 25, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Young One
"...Buñuel as well as shooting films such as John Ford's The Fugitive and John Huston's Under the Volcano. Based..."

Sept. 17, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The God of Gamblers
"...in action, try to picture an Asian Cary Grant/Harrison Ford/Sean Connery mix, only better. I'd even go so far..."

July 16, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Armor of God II: Operation Condor
"...the Lost Ark, right? Wrong. George Lucas and Harrison Ford are nowhere in sight. Instead, we have a thoroughly..."

July 2, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Noises Off!
In this screwball comedy, the behind-the-scenes activity of a traveling acting troupe threaten to bring down the play.
"...the generation of cineastes who became filmmakers (including Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese) should end up directing this..."

March 27, 1992 Movie Review by Louis Black

Late for Dinner
"...high-concept movie with a lot of heart. Like Francis Ford Coppola's Peggy Sue Got Married, it trips the light..."

Sept. 27, 1991 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Thelma & Louise
"...which is mythopoetically somewhere in the heart of John Ford country. That one glitch in the holiday weekend leads..."

May 24, 1991 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Luv Doc: Two Spaces
Secretly hoping it's a 1988 Ford Escort with a whale fin spoiler
"...I am ashamed to admit this, and I don't..."

May 17, 2019 Column by The Luv Doc

Luv Doc: Secret Santa
Maybe your Secret Santa owns a thrift-store Timex and a whiskey-dented 2001 Ford Escort
"...he owns a thrift-store Timex and a whiskey-dented 2001 Ford Escort. Maybe it never even gets to 60...."

Jan. 1, 2016 Column by The Luv Doc

Newsgeist: 2/23/11
The spirit of the news
"...toxic air pollution, the New Zealand earthquake, and a Ford truck recall. Click through for the links...."

Feb. 23, 2011 News Post by Eric Pickhartz

Nocturnal Animals
A dark meditation on regret and revenge
"...Directed by: Tom Ford. Starring: Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Shannon, Aaron Taylor-Johnson,..."

Nov. 18, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Indy's final adventure remembers the whip, forgets the charm
"...Directed by: James Mangold. Starring: Harrison Ford, Mads Mikkelsen, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Ethann Isidore, Toby Jones, John..."

June 30, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Sergeant Rutledge
John Ford's Sergeant Rutledge, about the trial of a black Army officer accused of murder and rape, has a striking, formal sort of beauty.
"...D: John Ford (1960); with Jeffrey Hunter, Constance Towers, Woody Strode, Billie..."

July 20, 2001 Screens Review by Jerry Renshaw

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
This is the American classic that uses the now-famous line: "When the legend becomes fact, print the legend." Ford addresses the complexity of heroism in a poetic manner.
"...Directed by: John Ford. Starring: James Stewart, John Wayne, Vera Miles, Lee Marvin,..."

July 29, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Emily the Criminal
Aubrey Plaza goes from wage slave to free crook in a capitalist critique
"...Directed by: John Patton Ford. Starring: Aubrey Plaza, Theo Rossi, Jonathan Avigdori, Megalyn Echikunwoke,..."

Aug. 12, 2022 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Test Pattern
Issues of race and rape intersect in this startling Austin drama
"...Directed by: Shatara Michelle Ford. Starring: Brittany S. Hall, Will Brill, Gail Bean and..."

Feb. 19, 2021 Movie Review by Selome Hailu

Tobacco Road
"...Directed by: John Ford. Starring: Charley Grapewin, Marjorie Rambeau, Gene Tierney, William Tracy,..."

June 17, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Page Two: Winning the West
Cowboys, Indians, and the irresolvable contradictions between freedom and order
"...is best summed up in a line from John Ford's The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance: "When the legend..."

June 12, 2009 Column by Louis Black

Apocalypse Now Redux
"...Directed by: Francis Ford Coppola. Starring: Harrison Ford, Dennis Hopper, Aurore Clement, Sam..."

Sept. 14, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Searching for Cynthia Ann
Glenn Frankel's new book untangles the true story behind 'The Searchers'
"...of Journalism, investigates the true story that inspired John Ford's 1956 film The Searchers: the kidnapping of 9-year-old Cynthia..."

Feb. 15, 2013 Screens Feature by Amy Gentry

Coach's Corner
Believe the hype. Longhorn freshman point guard T.J. Ford is something special -- maybe the best player in UT basketball history.
"...if it has anything to do with UT. T.J. Ford is, right now, after a college career spanning less..."

Dec. 14, 2001 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

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