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	The Searchers (film) . Enpsychlopedia
		The Searchers is a 1956 epic Western film directed by John Ford, which tells the story of Ethan Edwards, a bitter, middle-aged loner played by John Wayne, who spends years looking for his abducted niece.
		Sergio Leone, a noted Ford admirer, mentioned it as one of his favorite films and referenced it in a key scene of his film Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), The Searchers was also referenced in a similar scene in the Bollywood film Sholay.
		Its use in the film is symbolic, given the plot of the film, since it has a reference to the family members who have died during the Comanche raid.
	enpsychlopedia.org /psypsych/The_Searchers_(film) (1789 words)

	The Searchers (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Searchers is a 1956 epic Western film directed by John Ford, which tells the story of Ethan Edwards, a bitter, middle-aged loner played by John Wayne, who spends years looking for his abducted niece.
		The Searchers is often cited as a candidate for the greatest film of all time.
		Its use in the film is symbolic, given the plot of the film, since it has a reference to the family members who have died during the Comanche raid.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Searchers_(film) (1714 words)

	The searchers
		In view of this, FILM has asked all four of them a series of questions on the state of the art of the documentary film genre and on the inherent challenges of the consultancy.
		"The Danish Film Institute and the documentary film industry have to strengthen their access to the media-consuming consciousness of the potential viewers, and squeeze the documentary film's abundance of personal interpretations, reflections and experiences into the flow of information on the Internet, the flow of television news imperatives and the flow of cultural event-making".
		The films should also be seen in gatherings and should spark debates and reflection, thereby making the directors visible to their audience.
	www.dfi.dk /tidsskriftetfilm/32/searchers.htm (3042 words)

	All-Reviews.com Movie/Video Review: The Searchers
		THE SEARCHERS is very good film, one of the best made in its time, but the author of this review has some reservations towards using the word "masterpiece".
		Film is rich with details that could be discovered only with multiple viewings, but those multiple viewings also reveal many of the film's flaws.
		In the end, THE SEARCHERS is film that belongs to the category of so-called `important" movies - those which are remembered less by their own merit, and more by the way they influenced future film- makers.
	all-reviews.com /videos-5/searchers.htm (1233 words)

	The FreshSite: Film: Reviews: The Searchers (1956)
		The Searchers, one of John Ford's later Westerns, represents a change in focus and depth for the director, paying attention to thematic ambivalence and different points of view (something alien to his early films) to augment the experience.
		The film is amazingly shot in technicolor, framing some of the most wonderful pictures in the history of the genre.
		Despite receiving not too favourable contemporary reviews, The Searchers' reputations was given a massive boost by the critics of the 70s who hailed the complexity of the John Wayne character; in his searching for his niece, and in his interaction with the Comanches.
	www.arnadal.no /film/Movies/searchers_the_(1956).htm (373 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - The Searchers
		The film's screenplay was adapted by Frank S. Nugent (Ford's son-in-law, who collaborated with him in 11 films) from Alan LeMay's 1954 novel of the same name.
		Film directors such as Martin Scorcese, Steven Spielberg, Paul Schrader, and George Lucas trace their fascination with film to this John Ford film; in appreciation of this cinematic milestone, they reflected his work in some of their own films such as Taxi Driver.
		Red River and later in a few other films such as this one he plays a character that isn't quite categorical as either good or evil; or perhaps both depending on the situation.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/searchers.php (1928 words)

	SEARCHERS
		The Searchers mix a blend of all the great literature from which each character is based with today’s readers sensibilities.
		Format: Although the concept of the Searcher’s members striving to determine their place in the real world is a fascinating one, the possibilities of extending the concept into ongoing adventures obviously holds an even greater appeal.
		The Searchers’ world is one of uniqueness, pulling in familiar and comfortable scenarios with all new diversions.
	fuziondigital.com /searchers.htm (657 words)

	The Searchers (1956) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Searchers (1956) is considered by many to be a true American masterpiece of filmmaking, and the best, most influential, and perhaps most-admired film of director John Ford.
		In this film, his first anti-heroic role, he was a bigot and racist - a tragic, lonely, morally-ambiguous figure perenially doomed to be an outsider.
		Moving excitedly to the porch, she notices a man approaching - in the center of the frame - who slowly rides in from the desert in a mythic entrance - the man is framed between two distant buttes.
	www.filmsite.org /sear.html (2148 words)

	Total Film - The Searchers
		Edwards spends years in the search and his hatred of native Americans grows, even though he’s joined by his half-Indian nephew (Jeffrey Hunter).
		Featurettes (including interviews with Natalie Wood and Jeffrey Hunter), trailer.The elements of John Ford’s 1956 Western — Monument Valley settings, sentimentality, strong ensemble playing, the quest — may be familiar, but the anguished character of Ethan Edwards gives The Searchers all the resonance it needs.
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	www.totalfilm.com /dvd_reviews/the_searchers (247 words)

	Film as Art: Danél Griffin's Guide to Cinema
		The Searchers can be viewed as a simplistic action story about two men’s hunt for Debbie and revenge for the death of their family, but Ford makes several directorial choices to make it clear that his film works on a much more complex level.
		The entire film is tinted with an orange filter, leaving the impression that despite what we are literally seeing on screen, there are other shades that these characters are tinted with.
		Ford was certainly dealing with the deconstruction of conventions with this film, yet he is eventually a victim of a convention himself.
	uashome.alaska.edu /~jndfg20/website/searchers.htm (1497 words)

	The Searchers
		IMDb members rate it in the top 150 films ever made, many consider it better than Ford's 1939 "Stagecoach", and no less an authority than Steven Spielberg claims it is the single best movie he has ever seen.
		The shots are spectacular, from the fight scenes, to the buffalo stampede, to the long shots of the valley, to the famous doorway framing shots that begin and end the film.
		Films under five are generally awful even if you like that kind of film, equivalent to about one and a half stars from the critics or less, depending on just how far below five the rating is.
	www.scoopy.com /searchers.htm (849 words)

	The searchers
		The searchers is a difficult film, one that has needed a close reading for some time.
		Buscombe’s concluding tribute to the film is that The searchers makes claims not only on our eyes or feelings but also on our minds.
		The film’s moral conscience is the brave but reasonable and psychologically healthy Marty, who is of mixed race and is a better man than Ethan.
	www.latrobe.edu.au /screeningthepast/reviews/rev1002/djbr14a.html (716 words)

	DVD: The Searchers (Bfi Film Classics) $9.91 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Edward Вusсоmbе provides a detailed commentary on all aspects of the film, and makes full use оf material in the Jоhn Ford archive in Indiana, including Ford's own memos and the original script, which diffеrs in vital respects from the film he made.
		Full of wonderful insight, background on Western films, the use of the landscape and behind-the-scene information about the crew this is a must for any fan of the movie or Westerns in gеnеrаl.
		He does sоmеthing I have sееn no other writer on "The Searchers" do, and that is to discuss the film's music, which is based on the 19th Century song "Lorena," whiсh has a theme about separated lovers that reflects the Еthаn-Маrthа relationship.
	www.collection-anime.com /tovar30383531373038323058.html (301 words)

	scanners (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Film is a visual medium; if all a movie does is to offer up pretty pictures (see "Thelma and Louise" for an egregious and inappropriate use of excessive pictorialism), then that hardly qualifies as "visual magnificence," any more than the prettified mallworks of Thomas Kinkade ("The Painter of Light") constitute "magnificent" landscape painting.
		I teach a high school film class (not the upper echelons of academia Metcalf was gunning for, but it's in the same ballpark), and I fight a constant battle, both with students and teachers, about film's capabilities as a work of art.
		Films go in and out of favor and in and out of the canon, and he's trying to look past the blinding praise to figure out why this film is there.
	blogs.suntimes.com /scanners/2006/07/eyeless_in_monument_valley_ii.html (8679 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Great Movies :: The Searchers (xhtml) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		One of the mysteries of ''The Searchers'' involves the relationship between Ethan and Martin on the trail.
		Consider the funeral early in the film, with a wagon at low right, a cluster of mourners in the middle left, then a diagonal up the hill to the grave, as they all sing Ford's favorite hymn, ''Shall We Gather at the River'' (he used it again in the wedding scene).
		In ''The Searchers'' I think Ford was trying, imperfectly, even nervously, to depict racism that justified genocide; the comic relief may be an unconscious attempt to soften the message.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20011125/REVIEWS08/111250301/1023 (913 words)

	The Searchers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Searchers (film), a 1956 epic Western film.
		The Searchers (band), a 1960s British rock band.
		This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Searchers (85 words)

	Combustible Celluloid film review - The Searchers (1956), John Ford, John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, dvd review
		I first saw The Searchers, which is widely considered to be the greatest Western ever made and one of the greatest films ever made, about 10 years ago, and wasn't impressed.
		Those films are made in fl and white with an artists' eye for pacing, space, and compositions.
		The Searchers is as beautifully photographed as most of Ford's other films, but the Widescreen and Technicolor make his usual location, Monument Valley, explode with weight and meaning.
	www.combustiblecelluloid.com /searchers.shtml (1088 words)

	The DVD Journal \| Reviews : The Searchers: The Searchers: 50th Anniversary Ultimate Collector's Edition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		His films are of a piece: they have a visual consistency no matter the subject or who shot it, a narrative consistency regardless of the writers, and his films have thematic and moral consistency.
		Having worked on films since nearly the birth of cinema, Ford was so versed in the medium that he could do anything with it, bend it to his personal preoccupations while still maintaining vestiges of superficial commercialism to please his studio masters.
		Both book and film are about the five-plus year long search by Edwards for the remnants of his family, killed in an Indian attack led by renegade Indian Scar (Henry Brandon), with Martin Pauley along to stop Ethan from killing young Debbie (Natalie Wood), his remaining relative, now tainted by her absorption into the tribe.
	www.dvdjournal.com /reviews/s/searchers_50ae.shtml (3295 words)

	The Searchers : filmcritic.com Movie Review
		However, if you were to ask most film students who directed My Darling Clementine, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, and The Searchers, they’d stare at you as if you asked them who was the father of tap dancing (sorry, Bojangles).
		Even on a purely aesthetic level, The Searchers, shot in Arizona’s Monument Valley, is a stunning piece of work, with Ford and cinematographer Winton C. Hoch using depth and layering to define the spare, haunting atmosphere of the film.
		The film's last shot, with Ethan framed perfectly, alone in a doorway, is the kind of imagery that never gets old and maintains its powers for centuries.
	www.filmcritic.com /misc/emporium.nsf/VideoHome/5430FEA59688FF67882571480012FB58/?OpenDocument (778 words)

	Film Reviews On The Searchers Facts And Data (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Alfred hitchcock's marnie, john ford's the searchers, for example are cathartic and salutary peary back main film reviews interviews essays film festivals books.
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		So yeah, I might be lying if I say the searchers is the best filim of all best filims, but at least it's a film I love.
	www.cinema-nation.com /film-reviews-on-the-searchers.html (804 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Searchers [1956]: DVD: John Wayne,Jeffrey Hunter,John Ford,Vera Miles,Ward Bond,Natalie Wood,John ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		As with many of Ford's classic Westerns, The Searchers must contend with revisionism in its stereotypical treatment of "savage" Native Americans, and the film's visual beauty (the final shot is one of the great images in all of Western culture) is compromised by some uneven performances and stilted dialogue.
		Unlike modern films the pace is leisurely and the character development is measured.
		A film all about obsession, racism and revenge about an ex-confederate officer, which after his family has been slaugtered by a group of Comanches, goes on an obsessive quest looking for his niece whom has been captured by the Indians.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Searchers-John-Ford/dp/B00004TXGX (1753 words)

	The Searchers at 50 - Classic film spurs new historical research, too. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		A film widely considered to be the greatest Western ever made turns 50 this year.
		The film also influenced a generation of prominent directors, from George Lucas (Star Wars) to Martin Scorsese (Taxi Driver) to Steven Spielberg, who filmed his own two-reel version of The Searchers in a friend’s backyard when he was in the seventh grade.
		The Searchers is a mirrored self-image, a look at the strength of pioneers in that most arid and unforgiving environment of Texas in 1868, but also an often uncomfortable study of what it took to survive and prevail.
	www.twmag.com /westerns/western-searchers_04_06.htm (1685 words)

	The Ten Commandments (1956)
		It was the highest-earning live-action film of the 1950s.
		Although a blockbuster, the film reverts to melodramatic style, with great actors adopting static attitudes, postures and gestures.
		This commanding film was the epic account of the liberation of the Hebrew people from Egyptian bondage by Egyptian prince Moses (Charlton Heston), born a Hebrew slave.
	www.filmsite.org /tenc.html (384 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Searchers (Widescreen/Full Screen): DVD: John Ford,John Wayne,Jeffrey Hunter,Vera Miles,Ward ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Indeed it seems to be the film in which the culmination of Ford's own commitment to the power, beauty and frailty of the western frontier tragically come together in a revisionist perspective that exposes both its grandeur and its flaws.
		The film tackles racism in the form of Ethan's distrust of one time family friend (Jeffrey Hunter) who is part Cherokee and the sweep and spectacle of Death Valley has never been quite so poignantly captured on film.
		This film is widely considered the greatest western of all time and a favorite film of Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg if that means anything to you, I thought I would toss it in anyway.
	www.amazon.ca /Searchers-Widescreen-Full-Screen/dp/6304696566 (2659 words)

	The Searchers (1956) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		I'd watched the film previously maybe a dozen times and had never noticed the power of this sequence.
		The final shot is famous, but I noted the doorway theme throughout the film: the message of an open or closed door, whether the character enters the door or just looks in, at other times, the character is inside looking out.
		Those who think this is the best film of all time have good reason to support their belief.
	www.imdb.com /Title?0049730 (684 words)

	BBC - Films - review - The Searchers
		Yet there is no escaping the fact that both contribute to the film's weaker elements.
		He normally depicted the all-American hero, so his hard-bitten, often unsympathetic portrayal of a man not even welcomed by his own family in "The Searchers" was surprising.
		See what films are opening in the UK in 2006.
	www.bbc.co.uk /films/2000/11/07/the_searchers_1956_review.shtml (399 words)

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