At the "Great Ideas" forum at the John Cassavetes Cine in Thessaloniki, Greece, sponsored by the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, the Fulbright Foundation, the U.S. Embassy in Greece and Stavros Niarchos Foundation, co-chief executive of Fox Filmed Entertainment Jim Gianopulos talks about "Jim" Cameron's "Avatar," which he says he has seen tens of times in various...
A film dealing with war and how it shapes soldiers and civilians alike was honored Saturday evening as the 32nd Starz Denver Film Festival announced the winners of its juried prizes. The prizes were awarded before the closing-night film "The Young Victoria" at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House.
Damien Chazelle - 2009 If John Cassavetes directed an MGM musical produced by Arthur Freed, it might look something like Guy and Madeline. I am referring to the earlier Cassavetes, of Shadows and Faces, with the hand held 16mm...
John Cassavetes has been everywhere the last week. Alex and I watched Opening Night while she was here (she had never seen it). She said to me, "You know what I feel like seeing right now? Woman Under the...
Legit News: 'Husbands,' 'Document' among fest's highlights -- A new piece from SITI Company and a stage version of John Cassavetes pic "Husbands" are among the offerings of the annual Under the Radar fest.
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie is, at least superficially, John Cassavetes' stab at a gangster thriller. In fact, though, the film's genre trappings are incidental to its central purpose, a character study of the charismatic loser Cosmo Vitelli (Ben Gazzara), a strip club owner who fancies himself an artist as he arranges his club's lame, unsexy nightly shows. Cosmo is a kind of vaudeville showman,...
If American independent cinema could be said to have a birthday, Nov. 11 is as good a date to celebrate as any. On that night 50 years ago, John Cassavetes, an actor then best known for his TV roles, unveiled for a downtown New York audience his directing debut, Shadows. Cassavetes had financed the production with his paychecks from Hollywood and made the film with a cast and crew of novice actors...
The actor: Ben Gazzara, who studied with The Actors Studio in the ‘50s before moving on to Broadway—where he originated the role of Brick in Tennessee Williams’ Cat On A Hot Tin Roof —and then, inevitably, Hollywood. Gazzara starred in two TV series ( Arrest And Trial and Run For Your Life ) in the ‘60s, but didn’t really find his niche until he connected with indie...
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Darkcloud wrote a new blog post: the kingdom as somehow both present and future It is 9:07 AM Friday morning in the flow of breathing on the surface of the planet earth. I got up this morning around 7:44 AM. When I got up I walked to our small kitchen and made a pot of coffee. It is another cold late autumn morning. I saw sun light outside this morning. [...]
Rachael Yamagata will hit the road as a very special guest of Irish band Swell Season for a fall U.S. tour of intimate theaters that begins November 12th and finishes up on December 5th. Yamagata has spent the last few months writing the follow-up to her Warner Bros. Records debut album Elephants…Teeth Sinking Into [...]
Author’s Note: This is the article I wrote for the October issue of IndianAuteur. I had to cut this article down to size to make it fit in two pages in the magazine, so I had to cut out most of the quotes I had taken from the Oberhausen Manifesto. What you have below is [...]
in 1959 john cassavetes directed his first film. 'shadows' is everything we love about this filmmaker: the honest truth. cassavetes loved faces like no one else and always gave it to us close up and very personal. actress lelia goldoni starred and has been a working actress ever since.
Among other things, Tom Noonan is a musician , playwright, and writer-director of two acclaimed films ( What Happened Was , The Wife ), but most will sooner recognize this tall, reserved but eerily intense gentleman as a memorable character actor from films as diverse as Manhunter , Mystery Train , and Synecdoche New York . His latest chance to effortlessly steal scenes arrives in Ti West 's wonderfully...
By Chris Gisonny On September 21, 1970, television viewers beheld Dick Cavett welcoming John Cassavetes, Peter Falk and Ben Gazzara to the set of his show. Cavett initially describes them as “three animals” and before long their behavior supports his claim. They were there to promote Husbands (1970), a film directed by the notoriously unorthodox Cassavetes and starring all three of them....
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