The latest in our series of comfort movie picks is an ode to John Ford’s surprisingly gentle and laidback westernWhen it comes to the legendary American director John Ford, you either get it or you don’t.If you connect with his work – and for me it’s a connection far beyond any other I have experienced through cinema, felt somewhere between the back of my throat and the depth of my soul – then nothing else matters. Not his films’ conflicted politics, their interludes of witless brawling, or those sequences of drunk comedy we can tactfully classify as “broad”. Continue reading...