{"id":764,"date":"2006-04-15T13:51:37","date_gmt":"2006-04-15T20:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=764"},"modified":"2021-01-25T16:49:22","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T23:49:22","slug":"joanna-1968","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=764","title":{"rendered":"Joanna (1968)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;There&#8217;s no place for drags, baby&#8230; Stay cool!&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Joanna-Poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Joanna-Poster-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-21474\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Joanna-Poster-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Joanna-Poster-85x128.jpg 85w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Joanna-Poster.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nFree-spirited artist Joanna (Genevieve Waite) searches for love and happiness in 1960s London. <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Counterculture<\/li>\n<li>Cross-Cultural Romance<\/li>\n<li>Death and Dying<\/li>\n<li>Donald Sutherland Films<\/li>\n<li>Nonconformists<\/li>\n<li>Surrealism<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Response to Peary&#8217;s Review:<\/strong><br \/>\nAs Peary points out immediately in his review, this dated film is &#8220;bad and self-indulgent&#8221;, but nonetheless has some redeeming qualities &#8212; namely its ability to capture the zaniness and existential yearnings of the 1960s, as well as addressing interracial romance and showing confident, successful Blacks at a time when this was still considered taboo by many. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Joanna-Cross-Cultural.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Joanna-Cross-Cultural.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"614\" height=\"278\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-65948\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Joanna-Cross-Cultural.jpg 614w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Joanna-Cross-Cultural-300x136.jpg 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Joanna-Cross-Cultural-128x58.jpg 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Joanna-Cross-Cultural-596x270.jpg 596w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, Waite&#8217;s grating baby-voice got on my nerves immediately, and her wiggish hair makes her look like Phyllis Diller; I&#8217;m not surprised she only made two more films after this.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Donald Sutherland as the dying, kind-hearted aristocrat Joanna befriends<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Donald-Sutherland2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Donald-Sutherland2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"616\" height=\"274\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-65946\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Donald-Sutherland2.jpg 616w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Donald-Sutherland2-300x133.jpg 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Donald-Sutherland2-128x57.jpg 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Donald-Sutherland2-604x270.jpg 604w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>An eclectic mixture of surrealistic filming techniques<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Negative-Image.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Negative-Image.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"618\" height=\"277\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-65944\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Negative-Image.jpg 618w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Negative-Image-300x134.jpg 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Negative-Image-128x57.jpg 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Negative-Image-602x270.jpg 602w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 618px) 100vw, 618px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nNo, but film fanatics will likely be curious to check it out. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0063157\/\">IMDB entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/movies2.nytimes.com\/mem\/movies\/review.html?_r=1&#038;title1=&#038;title2=Joanna%20%28Movie%29&#038;reviewer=RENATA%20ADLER&#038;v_id=97211&#038;oref=slogin\">NY Times Original Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wm03.allmovie.com\/cg\/avg.dll?p=avg&#038;sql=1:97211\">All Movie Guide Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s no place for drags, baby&#8230; Stay cool!&#8221; Synopsis: Free-spirited artist Joanna (Genevieve Waite) searches for love and happiness in 1960s London. Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: Counterculture Cross-Cultural Romance Death and Dying Donald Sutherland Films Nonconformists Surrealism Response to Peary&#8217;s Review: As Peary points out immediately in his review, this dated film is &#8220;bad and self-indulgent&#8221;, but nonetheless has some redeeming qualities &#8212; namely its ability to capture the zaniness and existential yearnings of the 1960s, as well as&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=764\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-responses-to-peary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=764"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65951,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions\/65951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}