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In this is episode Lady P conducts a one on one interview with her mentor, Professor Joseph McBride. McBride is an accomplished author, a journalist, and a film historian whom Lady P met as a student at San Francisco State University. It was an honor to have him on the show.
For the first segment, Lady P and McBride discuss the number 7 picture on the Sight and Sound Greatest Films of All Time List: John Ford’s, THE SEARCHERS. McBride has written two books on John Ford including this one. In our interview, McBride offers a lot of interesting tidbits about the production, as well as insight on the major themes of the film.
And since McBride was an actual contributor to the Sight and Sound poll (we told you he was accomplished), Lady P took the opportunity to try to dig up some insider secrets about why the list shaped up the way it did. Is there a vast conspiracy among all British film journals to denigrate the legacy of Orson Welles? Has William Randolph Hearst come back from the dead and threatened all the world’s film critics? How else to you explain the deposing of Citizen Kane? They address this dastardly plot, and they talk about how McBride went about choosing his personal submissions.
They finish off the episode with a little professorial advice. You wanna be a famous filmmaker or film critic? You better listen up!
You can purchase a copy of Joseph McBride’s latest book INTO THE NIGHTMARE: MY SEARCH FOR THE KILLERS OF PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY AND OFFICER J. D. TIPPIT Here
You can purchase HAWKS ON HAWKS: Here
And here’s a link to McBride’s latest article which is about Orson Welles’ recently rediscovered early film TOO MUCH JOHNSON
I remember Prof.McBribe’s article in Sight and Sound and Robin Woods book on Hitchcock where he said Vertigo was one of the 5 best films ever made. Anyway to have articulate people praising your favorites is great especially when you’re 19 years old.