John Cassavetes (1929-1989) was one of the most highly acclaimed independent filmmakers in America. He was widely honored for motion pictures that successfully brought to the screen believable portray...
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Critical Essay by John Simon
The films of John Cassavetes are, by and large, sterile actors' exercises. They are not even for all kinds of actors, but mostly for the friends of Cassavetes and ...
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Critical Essay by James Monaco
[Acting], its art and craft, is the key to John Cassavetes's cinema. He started as an actor (he's a good one) and he still acts to make money to finance h...
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Critical Essay by Raymond Durgnat
[Too Late Blues] plunges us again into the harsh and blistering world of Shadows. (p. 29)
If the focus of Shadows was rootlessness that of Too Late Blues is cruel...
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Critical Essay by Albert Johnson
It is … quite interesting to discover in John Cassavetes' new film, Too Late Blues, a truly challenging Hollywood film, giving an unusual interpretation...
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Critical Essay by Stanley Kauffmann
[Minnie and Moskowitz] is by far John Cassavetes' worst film, with none of the good touches of Faces, without even any of the pseudo inquiry of Husbands. Gu...
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The Film Society of Lincoln Center is devoting the month of May to three comparatively unexplored talents who helped make the 60’s and 70’s such venturesome decades of American filmmaki...
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The movies of John Cassavetes are for and by actors—at their worst, they’re about actors, too. All those grainy close-ups that the director insisted on may be truthful, but it’s t...
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The movies of John Cassavetes are for and by actors—at their worst, they’re about actors, too. All those grainy close-ups that the director insisted on may be truthful, but it’s t...
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The road comedy "Little Miss Sunshine" won best picture and three other prizes for independent films at the Spirit Awards on Saturday, one day before competing for Hollywood's top honors at the Aca...
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Berlin (dpa) - Oscar-nominated German-Turkish movie director Fatih
Akin plans to build a replica of New York's Ellis Island immigration
centre for his next project in German...
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Jeff Goldblum and his hometown of Pittsburgh, whether it likes it or not, have combined to create a surprising summer delight."Pittsburgh" is a witty variation on a Christopher Guest mockumentary t...
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At 59, after 13 years of sobriety and almost two of marriage, Richard Lewis is as content as a driven, neurotic, workaholic comedian can be.
After a self-enforced layoff from stand-up of about two...
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The Independent Spirit Awards celebrate the best in low-budget filmmaking. But within those honors, the John Cassavetes Award goes to the lowest of the low-budget films: those made for under $500,0...
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Female directors are flooding today's theaters more than ever, with movies as diverse as the women themselves. Yet the struggle for equality, recognition and respect continues.Moving beyond the tra...
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John Cassavetes
Critical Essay by John Simon
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