Stagecoach

Admission UCB Students: 50 cents
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“John Ford's triumphant return to the western genre after 13 years. Also his first expedition into Monument Valley, a dream landscape he would fix forever as his own. Also a perfectly constructed motion picture, with hardly a single false step nor unnecessary moment. Also the film in which John Wayne defines himself for all time. (And how much did Ford actually suspect, given the startling zoom into our first shot of the Ringo Kid, spinning that rifle, stepping into history? ‘Here he is, folks,' says Ford, 40 years ago, with a zoom you'd need a time machine to place as perfectly - unless you were John Ford to begin with.)....”

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