Flixwise Podcast

In this is episode Lady P conducts a one on one interview with her mentor, Professor Joseph McBride. McBride is an accomplished author, a journalist, and a film historian whom Lady P met as a student at San Francisco State University. It was an honor to have him on the show. For the first segment, Lady P and McBride discuss the number 7 picture on the Sight and Sound Greatest Films of All Time List: John Ford's, THE SEARCHERS. McBride has written two books on John Ford including this one. In our interview, McBride offers a lot of interesting tidbits about the production, as well as insight about the major themes of the film. And since McBride was a actual contributor to the Sight and Sound poll (we told you he was accomplished), Lady P took the opportunity to try to dig up some insider secrets about why the list shaped up the way it did. Is there a vast conspiracy among all British film journals to denigrate the legacy of Orson Welles? Has William Randolph Hearst come back from the dead and threatened all the