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Gala Opening Night - Celebrate Ford's Golden Year 1939
Savoy, Friday June 6th, 7.00pm
€10/€8 Purchase Tickets HERE
The Gala Opening Night celebrates the 75th anniversary of Ford's Golden Year of 1939 at Dublin's historic SAVOY Cinema and introduced by Dan Ford along with Special Guests in attendance including John Wayne's daughter, Marisa Wayne with a Discussion and Screening of the classic Western from that year, Stagecoach, starring John Wayne followed by the 75th Anniversary Screening of Stagecoach.
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In Conversation with Scott Eyman
Gresham Hotel, Saturday June 7th, 4pm
€8 Purchase Tickets HERE
The Symposium welcomes renowned US Author and Biographer Scott Eyman, following the release of his recent highly acclaimed biography John Wayne The Life and Legend . Eyman will discuss Wayne's collaboration and unique relationship with John Ford.
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Dan Ford - on Ford
Sunday June 8th, 11am
This is part of the FORD at WAR event in Collins Barracks National Museum of Ireland.
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Masterclass with Director Ben Wheatley supported by Screen Training Ireland
Friday June 6 This Event is Full
Award winning director and screenwriter Ben Wheatley has cemented his reputation as one of the most interesting filmmakers in recent years. Wheatley has directed some of the most acclaimed UK films of recent years including Down Terrace, Kill List, Sightseers and A Field in England.
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FORD Directors Hub
Gresham Hotel, Saturday June 7, 12noon
€10 Purchase Tickets HERE
John Ford's legacy to Cinema and filmmaking is indisputable and his visual skills, craft and storytelling continues to influence and resonate with filmmakers today. This Director's Hub brings together a diverse group of filmmakers headed up by a unique panel of Directors who will discuss the craft in a contemporary industry which deals with sophisticated audiences across multi-layered platforms, and reflecting on the core skills, craft and technique displayed by Ford the master, which are still incredibly effective in visual storytelling today.
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FORD Producers Panel
Gresham Hotel, Saturday June 7, 2pm
€10 Purchase Tickets HERE
Key industry figures from across both the UK and Ireland will participate at this Ford Producer's Panel, focusing on the challenges of making independent films in both the UK and Ireland, and getting them out to the wider international market. Panellists include Sue Bruce Smaith(12 Years a Slave), Laura Hastings Smith (Hunger), James Flynn(Calvary, Penny Dreadful) and Andrew Reid(Northern Ireland Screen).
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Adapted By John Ford - Academic Panel
Gresham Hotel, Saturday June 7th, 9.00am
Free Event Book Tickets Here
This Panel discussion will open the book on Ford's use of adaptation, and also consider Ford's legacy, and how many of leading figures of the New Hollywood film movement from Scorsese to Spielberg borrowed heavily from Ford.
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Edward Buscombe, Ford & The Western
Gresham Hotel, Saturday June 7th, 11.00am
Free Event Book Tickets Here
Edward Buscombe (Former Head of Publications at BFI) will give a presentation on the Western and Stagecoach (1939) celebrating it's 75th anniversary this year, widely recognised as establishing the Western as a serious genre, after years of being dismissed as B-movie material.
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Screening - The Searchers
Savoy, Saturday June 7th, 8pm
€8/€7/€6Purchase Tickets HERE
Ford's most influential film, a masterpiece of filmmaking and recently named as both the American Film Institute and Entertainment Weekly's 'Best Western Of All Time', John Ford's The Searchers' finds John Wayne in the classic role of Ethan Edwards, a gun slinging Civil War vet on the trail of the Indian tribe who kidnapped his niece across Texas desert plains.
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Screening - They Were Expendable
Savoy, Sunday June 8th, 6pm
€8/€7/€6 Purchase Tickets HERE
Closing the 2014 Symposium and part of this year's theme of Ford at War, They Were Expendable is Ford's personal tribute to the United States Navy, in which he served during WWII. The film, which stars John Wayne and Robert Mountgomery, has been called 'Ford's greatest work' by acclaimed director and Ford authority Lindsay Anderson, describing Joseph's August's cinematography and the film as 'a heroic poem'. Ford's on screen directing credit reads' Directed by John Ford, Captain U.S.N.R.
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The Quiet Man - FREE Outdoor Screening
Meeting House Square, Temple Bar, Saturday June 7th, 10.30pm
Almost Full Book Here
Enjoy one of John Ford's most beloved and personal films, The Quiet Man at this FREE night-time open air screening in Temple Bar. A true screen classic, The Quiet Man stars the unforgettable pairing of John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara shot against the lush, wistful backdrop of the Irish countryside of Mayo.
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Screening - My Darling Clementine
Savoy, Saturday June 7th, 6pm
€8/€7/€6 Purchase Tickets HERE
My Darling Clementine (1946) is among Ford's most memorable, perfect works; a perfect example of his extraordinary evocation of the American West, set in Tombstone, about Wyatt Earp and his brothers, a treacherous family of cattle thieves and Earp's relationship with the tragic Doc Holliday – culminating in the famous O.K. Corral gunfight.
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