1. “Johnny Guitar”: One of the Greatest Westerns and the Furthest Extreme ...
Aug 30, 2022 · What “Johnny Guitar” offers above all is a concentrated force of style in action, even during the extended early set piece: the confrontation in ...
Nicholas Ray’s movie, starring Joan Crawford and Sterling Hayden, is a theory of cinema in motion.
2. “I never met a woman who was more man.” movie review (1954)
Nicholas Ray's “Johnny Guitar” (1954) is surely one of the most blatant psychosexual melodramas ever to disguise itself in that most commodious of genres, ...
Johnny:Don't go away.
3. Johnny Guitar | Rotten Tomatoes
This is an action-packed Western drama with a revolutionary plot as well as great direction by Nicholas Ray. Joan Crawford's eye-catching appearance could be ...
On the outskirts of town, the hard-nosed Vienna (Joan Crawford) owns a saloon frequented by the undesirables of the region, including Dancin' Kid (Scott Brady) and his gang. Another patron of Vienna's establishment is Johnny Guitar (Sterling Hayden), a former gunslinger and her lover. When a heist is pulled in town that results in a man's death, Emma Small (Mercedes McCambridge), Vienna's rival, rallies the townsfolk to take revenge on Vienna's saloon -- even without proof of her wrongdoing.
4. Review: Johnny Guitar - Slant Magazine
Nov 8, 2015 · It's a film that's many things to many people, from camp spectacular to revisionist genre epic, and nearly every reading seems viable. Was it ...
Nicholas Ray’s Johnny Guitar is a film that’s many things to many people, from camp spectacular to revisionist genre epic, and nearly every reading seems viable.
5. Johnny Guitar - I Review Westerns
Feb 6, 2021 · Johnny Guitar now has excellent ratings on every movie site: 93% on Rotten Tomatoes, 7.7/10 on IMDb, 83% on Metacritic. And for good f*cking ...
Like the name says, I review a lot of Westerns! Here's my in-depth review of Johnny Guitar.
6. Johnny Guitar review – unforgettably strange, brilliant western
May 5, 2016 · Nicholas Ray's 1954 gem, starring Joan Crawford and Sterling Hayden, is an extraordinary psychological drama.
Nicholas Ray’s 1954 gem, starring Joan Crawford and Sterling Hayden, is an extraordinary psychological drama
7. Review: Johnny Guitar (1954) - STARK HOLBORN
Mar 20, 2020 · Based on the book by Roy Chanslor (who also wrote The Ballad of Cat Ballou) Johnny Guitar is weird, subversive, camp as hell and utterly unforgettable.
Stark says: “Gun-Queen of the Arizona Frontier! And her kind of men!!!”
8. Is Johnny Guitar the Best Movie of All Time? - Reading at Recess
Feb 12, 2021 · It's inarguably great and surprisingly watchable, but not better than Badlands. It also ends with a song, which was fine for the time but is ...
This is Best Movie of All Time, an eternal search for the greatest film ever. Read the full archives here. Nicholas Ray may be best known for Rebel Without a Cause, but also directed In a Lonely Pl…
9. Johnny Guitar (1954) - Motion State Review
Sep 17, 2022 · Johnny Guitar is the rare Western to improve with age rather than become dated by an idealistic masculinity.
Strong female character is a phrase that gets thrown around a lot in woke film crit, and it’s probable that the arbiter of this particular criteria should maybe be someone other than weak mal…
10. Johnny Guitar - Movie Reviews - Rotten Tomatoes
Ray's film is a western, but it is also an amplified melodrama, with a rich seam of deviant psychology just waiting to be disinterred from its dusty surface.
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11. Johnny Guitar — Nicholas Ray | In Review Online
Aug 31, 2023 · Johnny Guitar — Nicholas Ray ... In Johnny Guitar, Nicholas Ray's phantasmagorical 1954 Western, it takes fewer than two minutes for a deafening ...
A new film criticism piece on Johnny Guitar, directed by Nicholas Ray, for film review site In Review Online.
12. Johnny Guitar (re-release) Reviews - Metacritic
Apr 19, 2017 · This 1954 Western stars Joan Crawford as a saloon-keeper. Directed By: Nicholas Ray Written By: Philip Yordan, Roy Chanslor, Nicholas Ray
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13. Johnny Guitar - Variety
Joan Crawford, whose previous western was Montana Moon in 1930, has another try at the wide open spaces with Johnny Guitar ... Reviews. Dec 31, 1953 11:00pm PT ...
Joan Crawford, whose previous western was Montana Moon in 1930, has another try at the wide open spaces with Johnny Guitar. Like Moon, it proves the actress should leave saddles and levis to someone else and stick to city lights for a background.
14. Why Johnny Guitar remains a superior subversive western - Little White Lies
Sep 20, 2021 · Johnny Guitar is a film that makes paradoxes of our preconceptions. The supposedly good townsfolk are driven by their own prejudices.
With its progressive gender politics and liberal undertow, Nicholas Ray’s 1954 film was way ahead of its time.
15. Johnny Guitar Reviews - TV Guide
JOHNNY GUITAR has been called everything from a feminist statement to a gay camp-classic to an anti-McCarthyism allegory. While it certainly is all of these-- ...
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16. Johnny Guitar (1954) - The Movie Crash Course
Jul 10, 2020 · This film was just so odd. It's clearly a low-budget B-film, but they have Joan Crawford starring. And it's a Western.
This film was just so odd. It’s clearly a low-budget B-film, but they have Joan Crawford starring. And it’s a Western. And the main antagonism is between a pair of women. There are b…
17. Pulling Focus: Johnny Guitar (1954) | Taste Of Cinema
Sep 24, 2016 · “Johnny Guitar is surely one of the most blatant psychosexual melodramas ever to disguise itself in that most commodious of genres, the Western.
"Johnny Guitar is surely one of the most blatant psychosexual melodramas ever to disguise itself in that most commodious of genres, the Western.” – R
18. Johnny Guitar 1954, directed by Nicholas Ray | Film review - TimeOut
Apr 28, 2016 · A rip-snorting yarn packed with shootouts, punch-ups, daring escapes and crackling dialogue simply confirms its masterpiece status.
‘Never seen a woman who was more of a man. She thinks like one, acts like one, and sometimes makes me feel like I’m not.’ With lines like these, Nicholas Ray’s
19. Johnny Guitar - DVD Talk
Sep 29, 2012 · The film does work beautifully as just such a parable, but even years and decades from now, when that connection might not seem so obvious, ...
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20. Johnny Guitar: Olive Signature BD Review/Comparison (originally ...
Jun 6, 2019 · Johnny Guitar is an operatic all-time western classic that begs to be visited and revisited for its rich themes, influential filmmaking, and old-fashioned ...
Persecuted by the townspeople, Vienna (Joan Crawford) must protect her life and property when a lynch mob led by her sexually repressed rival, Emma Small (Mercedes McCambridge), attempts to frame her for a string of robberies she did not commit. Enter Johnny Guitar (Sterling Hayden), a guitar-strumming ex-gunfighter, who once was – and perhaps still is – in love with Vienna. (From Olive’s official synopsis)Since there are a number of fascinating critical dissertations already devoted to praising
21. My Review of 'Johnny Guitar' (1954) | I Found it at the Movies
Jun 22, 2017 · Personally, I love a good Western. Especially one with a totally kick-ass heroine like saloonkeeper Vienna in Johnny Guitar.
Personally, I love a good Western. Especially one with a totally kick-ass heroine like saloonkeeper Vienna in Johnny Guitar. It doesn’t hurt that Vienna is played by the proverbial mistress o…
22. Johnny Guitar (Olive Signature) - Blu-Ray - High Def Digest
Sep 20, 2016 · A bizarrely veiled allegory for the McCarthy-era Red Scare, Johnny Guitar was misunderstood upon its initial release. One of the most original ...
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23. Review of JOHNNY GUITAR (1954) - by Andrew Baek - Medium
May 31, 2018 · It goes without saying, in 2018, that Johnny Guitar is some kind of a masterpiece. On one level, it's impossible to miss the allegorical ...
From Letterboxd (May 1, 2018). I was surprised to discover this film casually buried in Hulu, only after mindlessly browsing options +…
