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Stagecoach (English version)
Location
Main screening room
Date
July 7th, 2022
Duration
96 min
Cycle
The essentials

Making lists is an activity moviegoers are fond of. Every year, the same ritual: compilation of the ten best films, with comparative analyses, debates, heated discussions. But what about the ultimate list of the most outstanding films in the history of cinema? That is to say, those films that must be seen, those that have forever transformed the art of cinema, but also our way of seeing a culture, of understanding the world as well as our own lives? This program aims to tackle this challenge with nearly eighty films, produced between 1916 and 1960, while waiting for your lists!

Stagecoach
Directed by
John Ford
Language
English version
Actors
John Wayne, Claire Trevor, John Carradine
Origins
USA
Year
1939
Duration
96 min
Genre
Western
Format
35 mm
Synopsis

In 1885, with the Apaches threatening the camp of Tonto, Arizona, a group of civilians is evacuated by stagecoach. Ringo Kid, an outlaw who has just escaped from prison, will join them.

Stagecoach
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John Ford

Son of Irish immigrants, John Ford was born John Feeney in Maine in 1894. In 1914, he left for California where he began a career as an actor alongside his brother, the actor and director Francis Ford, from whom he took his professional name. In the following years, he trained on the sets as an assistant director and cameraman, before starting to direct. After making dozens of silent films, many of which have since disappeared, he confirmed his success with the transition to talkies and co-founded the Screen Directors Guild in 1935. From Stagecoach in 1939, he made a series of classics and became famous for his westerns. During the Second World War, Ford created the Field Photographic Branch, using Hollywood talents to document the fighting (he lost an eye), the landing, the death camps, and the Nuremberg trials. After the war, he returned to making fiction films while opposing the McCarthyism. He continued to make films at a steady pace until the 1960s, creating masterpieces with an increasingly humanistic tone.

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Westerns - I never look at them, but I love to make them. Why? Because they're made mostly on location. You're out in the open, away from the smog and the freeways. You're with a bunch of stuntmen who are your friends, and they keep a pitch game going all the time. You eat well - I always insisted on the best possible food on location. You work from dawn until sunset, and you sleep like a baby at night. It's a great life - who wouldn't like it?
John Ford
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