Brother Feeney — Francis Ford Tag Gallagher December 2009 Feature Articles Elder brother to John Ford, Francis Ford had a long and distinguished career – as actor, director, writer, producer – in his own right. His influence on the younger, and more famous, Ford was far more complex than first imagined.
Why Samuel Fuller? Tag Gallagher April 2009 Feature Articles The recent DVD release of White Dog gives Tag Gallagher cause to take stock of Fuller’s career and ponder what exactly it was that set him apart of other directors.
Chains of Dreams: Carl Th. Dreyer Tag Gallagher November 2007 Feature Articles “Are the characters responsible for the emotions which destroy them? This is a secret that belongs to the heart and is the constant wonder of Day of Wrath.” With remarkable precision, Tag Gallagher extracts the passions that lie at the heart of Dreyer’s films.
Straub Anti-Straub Tag Gallagher May 2007 Feature Articles Tag Gallagher notes that Pedro Costa describes his film on Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub, Où gît votre sourire enfoui?, as “anti-Straubian”. Gallagher offers a vibrant discussion of Costa’s cinema via the Straubs, and the Straubs’ cinema via Costa’s.
How to Share a Hill Tag Gallagher May 2007 Feature Articles Illuminating discussion of the æsthetic and philosophical connections between King Vidor and the renowned American painter Andrew Wyeth.
American Triptych: Vidor, Hawks and Ford Tag Gallagher February 2007 The Moral of the Auteur Theory Three legendary classical directors are put under the spotlight, and the results of Gallagher’s analysis are always illuminating and surprising.
Passage: John Ford’s Young Mr. Lincoln Tag Gallagher May 2006 Cinema and the Pictorial Noted Ford scholar Tag Gallagher casts his gaze over this well worn 1939 classic and discovers further treasures in Ford’s poetic vision.
Lacrimae Rerum Materialized Tag Gallagher October 2005 Feature Articles An exploration of the Straubs' majestic œuvre, countering much of the received dogma that has surrounded perception of their work.
White Melodrama: Douglas Sirk Tag Gallagher July 2005 Feature Articles An insightful reappraisal of the æsthetics of the great Hollywood director.
Renoir and the Scandal of “First Love” or The Perils of Catherine Tag Gallagher February 2005 Feature Articles For Renoir, “first love” is an attitude toward life, in all its beauty and complexity.
Making Reality Tag Gallagher July 2004 Feature Articles The “amazing grace” of Rossellini's historical TV films.
Ford Till ’47 Tag Gallagher April 2004 Feature Articles “The essential Ford composition is a person acting freely within a geometric space,” writes Gallagher in this close look at the first half of a great and complex career.
