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Nobody captured the landscape and faces of the American people the way John Ford did, in films such as The Searchers, Stagecoach and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. He hid his sensitivity beneath a hard-drinking, exaggeratedly Irish exterior, but Joseph McBride's biography succeeds in penetrating Ford's habitual reticence and sheds light upon previously unknown aspects of his professional endeavours.

Orson Welles was once asked which directors he most admired. He replied: "The old masters. By which I mean John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford." A legend in his own time, John Ford (1894‿1973) received a record four Academy Awards for best director, and two of his World War II documentaries won Oscars for the US Navy. He directed 136 films in a career that lasted from the early silent era through the late 1960s. Ford is celebrated throughout t...

Orson Welles was once asked which directors he most admired. He replied: "The old masters. By which I mean John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford." A legend in his own time, John Ford (1894‿1973) received a record four Academy Awards for best director, and two of his World War II documentaries won Oscars for the US Navy. He directed 136 films in a career that lasted from the early silent era through the late 1960s. Ford is celebrated throughout t...

The Coen Bros. have attracted a wide following and have been rewarded with Oscars and other honors. Some of their films such as Fargo, The Big Lebowski, and No Country for Old Men are cult favorites and box office hits. Yet this team of filmmaking brothers remains misunderstood in some critical circles, partly because, like John Ford, they mischievously refuse to explain themselves to interviewers, preferring to let their work speak for itself...

In this critical study, Joseph McBride offers new ways to understand Wilder's work, stretching from his days as a reporter and screenwriter in Europe to his distinguished as well as forgotten films as a Hollywood writer and his celebrated work as a writer-director.

What Ever Happened to Orson Welles? A Portrait of an Independent Career" challenges the conventional wisdom that Welles's career after Kane was a long decline and that he spent his final years doing little but eating and making commercials while squandering his earlier promise. In this intimate and often surprising personal portrait, Joseph McBride shows instead how Welles never stopped directing radical, adventurous films and was always break...

Joseph McBride analyzes Ernst Lubitsch's films in rich detail in the first in-depth critical study to consider the full scope of his work in both his native and adopted lands. McBride explains the "Lubitsch Touch, " shows how the director challenged American attitudes toward romance and sex, and offers revealing insights into his working methods.

Biography of John Ford, the great director of popular American Westerns.

Steven Spielberg is responsible for some of the most successful films of all time: "Jaws", "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", "ET" and the "Indiana Jones" series. This book deals with Spielberg's personality and the forces that shaped it had remained enigmatic, in large part because of his tendency to obscure and mythologize his own past.

I read Hawks on Hawks with passion. I am very happy that this book exists."-François Truffaut Howard Hawks (1896-1977) is often credited as being the most versatile of all of the great American directors, having worked with equal ease in screwball comedies, westerns, gangster movies, musicals, and adventure films. He directed an impressive number of Hollywood's greatest stars-including Humphrey Bogart, Cary Grant, John Wayne, Lauren Bacall, Ro...

Writing in Pictures is a refreshingly practical and entertaining guide to screenwriting that provides what is lacking in most such books: a clear, step-by-step demonstration of how to write a screenplay.Seasoned screenwriter and writing teacher Joseph McBride breaks down the process into a series of easy, approachable tasks, focusing on literary adaptation as the best way to learn the basics and avoiding the usual formulaic approach. With its ...

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-> Buffalo Soldiers 44 - Das Wunder von St. Anna (USA/Italien 2008, 154 Min., FSK 16): Italien, Herbst 1944: Der Zweite Weltkrieg hat die Toskana erreicht. Die Deutsche Wehrmacht hat ihre letzte Verteidigungslinie errichtet, um den Vormarsch der Alliierten aufzuhalten. Die 92. Infanterie-Division der US-Armee versucht, diese Stellung am Serchio-Fluss zu durchbrechen. Unter ihnen sind die vier afroamerikanischen "Buffalo Soldiers" Hector, St...

Originally published: New York: Simon and Schuster, c1997.

Moviegoers often assume Frank Capra's life resembled his beloved films (such as Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and It's a Wonderful Life). A man of the people faces tremendous odds and, by doing the right thing, triumphs! But as Joseph McBride reveals in this meticulously researched, definitive biography, the reality was far more complex, a true American tragedy. Using newly declassified U.S. government documents about Capra's response to being ...

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At the age of twenty-five, Orson Welles (1915-1985) directed, co-wrote, and starred in Citizen Kane, widely regarded as the greatest film ever made. But Welles was such a revolutionary filmmaker that he found himself at odds with the Hollywood studio system. His work was so far ahead of its time that he never regained the wide popular following he had once enjoyed as a young actor-director on the radio. What Ever Happened to Orson Welles?: A P...

Autor de más de cien películas, es uno de los pioneros y, posiblemente, uno de los cineastas más importantes y emblemáticos de la historia del cine. La sencillez y sensibilidad fueron la base de sus historias sobre las grandes gestas, la leyenda o, simplemente, sobre el ser humano.

Originally published: New York: St Martin's Griffin, 2001.