LAST WEEK was pretty special for Joe McBride, a Wisconsin native who studied film at UW-Madison in the late 1960s and in 1970 went west to interview the great director John Ford.
McBride spent an hour with Ford, or, I should say, spent an hour in Ford’s company. As a film scholar, McBride has actually spent decades with the famed director of such classics as “The Searchers” and “Fort Apache,” and the association may have peaked last week.