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CANCELED – John & Francis Ford Film Festival: Midcoast Matinee

12 PM

This event has been canceled.

Sadly, due to circumstances beyond our control, we have had to cancel the MidCoast Matinee event of the John and Francis Ford Film Festival.

For information on other events in the festival, please visit FordFilmFestival.com
The film festival is being presented by the Maine Irish Heritage Center.
For more information please email info@fordfilmfestival.com or call (207) 780-0118.

Join the Maine Irish Heritage Center for a special event – The Ford Film Festival: Midcoast Matinee, a double feature presentation of a newly released short film from Francis Ford followed by a screening of John Ford’s “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.”

Premiere Screening – Francis Ford’s silent western “The Post Telegrapher.” This is the first public screening of a new digital restoration by Undercrank Productions, sourced from a 35mm preservation by the Library of Congress.

Following the premiere, there will be a screening of John Ford’s “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance” (1962).
Questions arise when Senator Stoddard (James Stewart) attends the funeral of a local man named Tom Doniphon (John Wayne) in a small Western town. Flashing back, we learn Doniphon saved Stoddard, then a lawyer, when he was roughed up by a crew of outlaws terrorizing the town, led by Liberty Valance (Lee Marvin). As the territory’s safety hung in the balance, Doniphon and Stoddard, two of the only people standing up to him, proved to be very important, but different, foes to Valance. (Running Time: 2 hours, 2 minutes)

Immediately following the screenings, you are invited to stay for a talkback with special guests, Joseph McBride and Kathy Fuller-Seeley.

Professor Joseph McBride, who has taught at SFSU since 2002, has written or edited sixteen books. They include the critically acclaimed biographies Frank Capra: The Catastrophe of Success, Steven Spielberg: A Biography, and Searching for John Ford; three books on Orson Welles; and the Howard Hawks interview book Hawks on Hawks. In 2012, McBride’s book Writing in Pictures: Screenwriting Made (Mostly) Painless will be published by Vintage Books (New York) and Faber and Faber (London). Many of his books have been published in foreign editions; the French edition of Searching for John Ford, A la recherche de John Ford, won an award in 2008 from the French film critics’ association as Best Foreign Film Book of the Year. McBride was a reporter, reviewer, and columnist for Daily Variety in Hollywood for many years. His screenwriting credits include co-writing the cult classic punk rock musical Rock ’n’ Roll High School and five American Film Institute Life Achievement Award specials on CBS-TV. He has received a Writers Guild of America Award, four other WGA Award nominations, two Emmy Award nominations, and a Canadian Film Awards nomination. He spent six years acting for Welles as a film critic in the still-unfinished film The Other Side of the Wind, for which he wrote his part with the director.

Professor Kathy Fuller-Seeley specializes in American film, radio and television history and audience reception studies. Fuller-Seeley teaches undergraduate courses on the historical development of film and media, gender and media in the 1960s, and the study of comedy, and graduate courses in media historiography and media reception studies. Before joining University of Texas, Austin in 2013, Fuller-Seeley taught at Georgia State University in Atlanta and Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. She received a BA in History from Agnes Scott College in 1982 and an MA and PhD in American History from the Johns Hopkins University in 1993. Fuller-Seeley is the author of, Jack Benny and the Golden Age of American Radio Comedy, and At the Picture Show: Small Town Audiences and the Creation of Movie Fan Culture. She is co-author (with Garth Jowett and Ian Jarvie) of Children and the Movies: Media Influence and the Payne Fund Controversy. She editedHollywood in the Neighborhood: Historical Case Studies of Local Moviegoing. She has written Celebrate Richmond Theater,One Thousand Nights at the Movies: An Illustrated History of Motion Pictures 1895-1915. Fuller-Seeley has published book chapters in numerous anthologies on topics such as film stars Shirley Temple, and Rin Tin Tin, Dish Night giveaways in Depression-era movie theaters, early TV audiences, film exhibition and moviegoing history. She is featured in the 2017 motion picture history documentary “Saving Brinton” (Northland Films). She has been a consultant on PBS documentaries on actress Mary Pickford, and comedian Bob Hope, and for other moviegoing history documentaries and museum exhibits. She is currently working on scholarly projects about silent film directors/actors Francis Ford and Grace Cunard, Jack Benny’s television program, and early traveling film exhibition in the Midwest and Northeast.

Tickets: $20 General Admission, are available for purchase at FordFilmFestival.com.
Tickets will also be available for purchase at the door.

This event is being presented by the Maine Irish Heritage Center.
For more information please email info@fordfilmfestival.com or call (207) 780-0118.