JOHNNY GUITAR (Masters of Cinema) New & Exclusive Trailer
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- Опубликовано: 19 окт 2024
- JOHNNY GUITAR (Masters of Cinema) Limited Edition Blu-ray is AVAILABLE NOW bit.ly/3vrXW6t
Joan Crawford (MILDRED PIERCE) plays Vienna, a saloon owner with a sordid past. Persecuted by the townspeople, Vienna must protect her life and her property when a lynch mob led by her sexually repressed rival, Emma Small (Mercedes McCambridge; ALL THE KING’S MEN), attempts to frame her for a string of robberies she did not commit. Enter Johnny Guitar (Sterling Hayden; DR. STRANGELOVE: OR, HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB), a guitar-strumming ex-gunfighter who has a history with Vienna.
Mis-understood by US audiences upon release, the film was embraced by European cineastes and is now regarded as one of the greatest western pictures of all time. An intensely stylised masterpiece from director Nicholas Ray, JOHNNY GUITAR makes its UK debut on Blu-ray as part of the Masters of Cinema series.
LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY CONTAINS:
Hardbound Slipcase | 1080p presentation on Blu-ray from a 4K restoration of the original film elements, framed in the film’s originally intended aspect ratio of 1.66:1 | Brand new commentary by critic Geoff Andrew, author of THE FILMS OF NICHOLAS RAY: THE POET OF NIGHTFALL, newly recorded for this release | Brand new video piece by Tony Rayns | Brand new video essay by David Cairns | Brand new interview with Susan Ray | Archival introduction to JOHNNY GUITAR by Martin Scorsese | Trailer | PLUS: A 60-page illustrated collector’s book featuring two new essays by western expert Howard Hughes, and an archival interview with director Nicholas Ray | *All extras subject to change
Most exciting MoC announcement in a while.
Wow! How come I only heard about this movie on an 8 part series about Joan Crawford on the 'You Must Remember This' podcast? It is amazing!
"Patrolling the Arizona almost made you wish for a civil war"
Hell yes great film!!
Back in the 1950s it must have seemed a great idea to take compositions that were intentionally shot and framed for 1.33:1 or 1.35:1 and crop them savagely to the ratio of 1.66:1 to give audiences the new thrill of a wider screen presentation in theaters equipped to accomodate the new CinemaScope pictures. These days however the great home video labels like Criterion place a high value in returning to the original compositions. The Criterion Blu-ray release of On The Waterfront still contains the only version of the film in its originally shot aspect ratio of 1.33:1 and it is incredible to see the proper full frame compositions. The film makes much more visual sense in its original ratio.
So it's really regressive to find the new 4K restoration of Johnny Guitar provided to Olive Signature in the US and Eureka Masters of Cinema in the UK mistakenly return to the widescreen theatrical aspect ratio of the 1950s. Why was that done? Because someone thought it's "authentic"? It isn't. It's repeating the mistake made in the 1950s of moving away from the original, "authentic" 1.33:1 or 1.35:1 image when there is no longer any reason to do so.
The standard 2012 Olive release of Johnny Guitar on Blu-ray, though inferior in picture quality, is still in 1.35:1 and I'm very happy to own a copy of it despite the arrival of this new 4K restoration release.
There are many films I own on Blu-ray like The Go-between and The Man With The Golden Arm that are savagely cropped in this way and I still find the older full frame DVD releases of those films make for much better viewing experiences.
And the most important rule in her saloon; NO WIRE HANGERS!!
Lol!!
Amazing!
What a great movie. ❤
Ahh yeahh!
🏆 A GREAT WESTERN 🏆 JOAN CRAWFORD & MERCEDES MCCAMBRIDGE ARE LIKE 2 BIG MAMAS AT THE O.K. CORALL 😆
So what are the chances they'll release this in 4K? (Release blurb says the following: 1080p presentation on Blu-ray from a 4K restoration of the original film elements, framed in the film’s originally intended aspect ratio of 1.66:1)
" film’s originally intended aspect ratio of 1.66:1". A misnomer if ever there was one. The original aspect ratio was 1.35:1. Johnny Guitar's original, intended compositions of 1.35:1 were savagely cropped to 1.66:1, like hundreds of movies of the 1950s, so audiences of the 1950s could thrill at the novelty of a wider screen presentation in theaters equipped to accomodate the new CinemaScope pictures. That was a reason that made sense at the time but it makes no sense now except to the media elite drones who are making these idiotic media decisions.
Awesome set
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