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“Cinema, at its core, extends the ordinary into the visionary; the exploration of an era or place that is unknown to us, the spectator, offering escapism into a perspicuous horizon, in this case antiquated, that differs wildly from our own. "Johnny Guitar", although wholly removed from the banalities of the everyday and realistic, scathingly probes modern human conflicts, obsessions and rivalries that simmer beneath the surface of the stoic, granite-jawed patriarchal Western model; these frailties are unearthed in the politically strained, subtext-laden interactions and veiled, embittered revelations of its fully-realised main characters, all of whom alternately conform to and subvert the sartorial and behavioural ideal of their respective genders. Framework psychologism elevates "Johnny ” read more
Movies the giraffe watched in 2019: May (25 movies items)"First viewing - May 26th When people talk about Westerns this film doesn't tend to get discussed which is a shame. It's excellent all around, and I can't think of a single complaint for it. The only thing it was missing was that 10/10 feeling. I'd gladly watch it several more times."
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Film Journal 2019 (225 movies items)"Joan Crawford outshines a startling array of character actors in one of Nicholas Ray's best pictures (no small statement of one of the finest American filmmakers). It is rather amazing he made The Savage Innocents only six years after this. Johnny Guitar is a film oozing with nuance and subtext, fragmented identities being puzzled together by the people who caused said fragmentation, luddites halting progress (though this one wants to stop the building of a railroad rather than building a wall),"
1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die (1950's) (126 movies items)" Notes: To be honest, I’m not a huge fan of such old Westerns and I believe that at least half of them could or should be removed from this otherwise really awesome list. Anyway, in this genre, I have to admit it, this movie was not bad at all and I definitely had a weak spot for the damned thing. Indeed, I thought it was especially neat to see a Western with a woman playing the lead and, even though Joan Crawford always thought that Mercedes McCambridge was stealing the show in this movie, "
1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die (2020) (1001 movies items)" Notes: To be honest, I’m not a huge fan of such old Westerns and I believe that at least half of them could or should be removed from this otherwise really awesome list. Anyway, in this genre, I have to admit it, this movie was not bad at all and I definitely had a weak spot for the damned thing. Indeed, I thought it was especially neat to see a Western with a woman playing the lead and, even though Joan Crawford always thought that Mercedes McCambridge was stealing the show in this movie, "
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PopMatter's Essential Film Performances - 2012 (50 movies items)"LIFE SUPPORT Mercedes McCambridge Cinema doesn’t get any better than Nicholas Ray’s Johnny Guitar, and character acting doesn’t get any better than Mercedes McCambridge in Johnny Guitar. Ray’s Trucolor Western is often described as campy—and it is—but it’s also, quite in tandem, one of the finest political allegories Hollywood ever produced, its static staging and philosophical heft reminiscent of Greek tragedy, as much as anything Anthony Mann ever did. Speaking of Mann, McCambri"
“The main reason why I wanted to watch this flick was because it was included in the list ‘1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die’. To be honest, I’m not a huge fan of such old Westerns and I believe that at least half of them could or should be removed from this otherwise really awesome list. Anyway, in this genre, I have to admit it, this movie was not bad at all and I definitely had a weak spot for the damned thing. Indeed, I thought it was especially neat to see a Western with a woman playing the lead and, even though Joan Crawford always thought that Mercedes McCambridge was stealing the show in this movie, I was above all impressed by Crawford after all. Eventually, the biggest issue with this movie (or biggest draw, depending on who you would ask) is that the story was rat” read more
