By John ThomasonStagecoach‭ (‬Criterion‭)Release date:‭ ‬May‭ ‬25Standard list price:‭ ‬$30.99As the legend goes,‭ ‬John Ford’s‭ ‬Stagecoach established the Western as an A picture,‭ ‬reviving it from its creatively moribund inception as disposable,‭ ‬one-dimensional nickelodeon fare and elevating it to the lofty standards of Whitmanesque poetry and pre-Wellesian compositional … [Read more...]