Johnny Cash: The Last Great American

2004
8.6| 0h59m| NA| en| More Info
Released: 27 February 2004 Released
Producted By: BBC One
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Official Website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0074s4x
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This first major retrospective of Cash's life, times and music features contributions from his daughter Rosanne Cash and son John Carter Cash, his longtime manager Lou Robin and fellow musicians including Little Richard, Cowboy Jack Clement, Kris Kristofferson, Merle Haggard and Elvis Costello.

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Chris Rodley

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Johnny Cash: The Last Great American Audience Reviews

Colibel Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.
ShangLuda Admirable film.
Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.
Maleeha Vincent It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.
bob the moo A week or so ago I watched the film Walk The Line and it had the effect of me immediately putting my "best of" album back onto my iPod and also saw me more interested in the man and his career. Coincidentally BBC4 had a short evening about Cash and this film was part of it. This documentary doesn't focus on any particular part of Cash's career but does more work on the cultural impact of the man by following his career and also having plenty of talking heads from family, friends and peers to reminisce and comment. As a result there is not a huge amount of detail but yet at the same time it is warm, affectionate and interesting to watch.I say this not as a great fan who knows everything but even those who are very familiar with Cash will still enjoy this film because it does come over as more of a tribute than a documentary. OK so it does "inform" but it uses this more as a structure for the film rather than the raison d'etre. I liked this and it does make even the casual viewer warm to the man in the way the film managed to do as well. The talking heads are well selected and also well used. There are one or two famous faces in there that have tenuous links but mostly the choice of children, band members and so on mean that the comments are informed, personal and interesting – this is not a "list" film with lots of talking heads who know little but are c-grade celebs who had a free slot in their schedule.I'm not totally sure about the "last great American" claim of the title but regardless Cash had a great career that covered decades. This film is not the place to come to learn new things about the man and his music but rather it is an enjoyably warm and personal tribute to him down the years and it is worth seeing for that.