Director John Ford (1894—1973) is acknowledged as one of the greats of Hollywood. Orson Wells called him cinema’s poet. On Peter Bogdanovich’s commentary track on John Ford’s The Searchers, he makes a passing comment about Ford having an accordion on the set. I was curious about what that meant. I could see music being used on sets [...]
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Archive for September 7th, 2011In the last couple of years I’ve read about how some writers write with music playing (Cameron Crowe, Stephen King, and Nancy Myers). Now you can add Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor (the writing team behind Election) to that list: Jim Taylor: Music is very important to Alexander. He has a musical sensibility that’s unusual and particular [...] |
