Kagemusha

#11 in my ranking of Akira Kurosawa's filmography. Dersu Uzala got Kurosawa back to work, but it was Star Wars that brought him back to the top of the cinematic world. George Lucas, heavily inspired by Kurosawa in his space opera, used his newfound power in Hollywood to, alongside Francis Ford Coppola, to convince 20th…

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The King’s Man

I can see why this is disappointing some people. It's marketed with videos like this while following up on the anarchic insanity of the first two movies, and yet it's not really like that for the bulk of its running time. In addition, the movie does have elements of the craziness, but they never really…

My Darling Clementine

#28 in my ranking of John Ford's filmography. John Ford takes on one of the most famous real life Western showdowns and shootouts, delivering a handsome and emotionally affecting character piece that also ends up dealing with the actual shootout. It's mostly a character piece about Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday where the Clantons are…

Young Mr. Lincoln

#33 in my ranking of John Ford's filmography. It's pretty evident that John Ford idolized the 16th president of the United States. Abraham Lincoln has appeared as a cameo in a couple of his earlier films, but it's here that Ford finally tackles him head on in a borderline hagiographic take on the man that…

Mary of Scotland

#66 in my ranking of John Ford's filmography. By all accounts, John Ford got bored of this historical costume drama while he made it. It has a professional stamp, but there's nothing that seems to have engaged him. It's an adaptation of a play by Maxwell Anderson of the same name, and it's the kind…