This series provides a survey of Golden Age Hollywood Cinema. This broad overview will allow patrons to develop a cursory understanding of film style, the studio/star system, and genre conventions – all while watching some of the most engaging movies ever made. Each film screening will include a twenty-minute presentation on a key aspect of the movie shown. For more information, please call 504-736-6455.Come learn with us, and have a great time doing it!

Johnny Guitar stars Joan Crawford as a saloon owner who runs afoul of the “decent” people in her town. Filmmaker François Truffant described it as “the Beauty and the Beast of Westerns” and “dreamed, a fairy tale.” Shot for studio Republic Pictures using their proprietary “Trucolor” process, Johnny Guitar is a hallucinatory, dream-like psychodrama that plays with expectations of hero and villain, light and dark, and masculine and feminine.