John Cassavetes

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Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series) (1955-1962): Dir. Alfred Hitchcock, various
Feat. Vera Miles, Ralph Meeker, John Forsythe…; Pre–dating THE TWILIGHT ZONE by some years, the Master of Suspense created this iconic television series featuring self–contained tales…
Shadows (1959): Dir. John Cassavetes
Feat. Lelia Goldoni; Cassavetes' influential debut explores inter–racial relationships with improvised dialogue, gitanes, ray–bans and Charlie Mingus…
John Cassavetes Collection Boxset (Shadows, Faces, A Woman Under the Influence, Killing of a Chinese Bookie, Opening Night) (1959-1977): Dir. John Cassavetes; Five–film anthology of John Cassavetes' groundbreaking independent cinema. Includes Charles Kiselyak's lengthy documentary on Cassavetes, A…
Child is Waiting, A (1963): Dir. John Cassavetes
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Judy Garland, Gena Rowlands; At a school for disabled children music therapist Judy Garland butts heads with the conservative superintendent Burt Lancaster. Film is of note as…
Killers, The (1964): Dir. Don Siegel
Feat. Lee Marvin, Clu Gulager, Angie Dickinson…; Transposed into the garish 60s, Ernest Hemingway's famous story is transformed into a harder, more callous exercise in casual violence and sexual…
Dirty Dozen, The (1967): Dir. Robert Aldrich
Feat. Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson…; A group of hardened criminals redeem themselves when recruited for a suicide mission during World War 2. An exciting adventure classic.
Faces (1968): Dir. John Cassavetes
Feat. John Marley, Gena Rowlands, Lynn Carlin; A marriage in crisis lurches into a downward spiral of drunkeness and desperate affairs. The dishevelled honesty and stark camerawork may not suit…
Minnie and Moskowitz (1971): Dir. John Cassavetes
Feat. Seymour Cassel, Gena Rowlands, John Cassavetes…; John Cassavetes' most accessible film is an unlikely romance between a museum curator and a parking attendant set over four days and nights.…
Woman Under the Influence, A (1974): Dir. John Cassavetes
Feat. Peter Falk, Gena Rowlands; Peter Falk and Gena Rowlands pull out the stops as a dysfunctional working– class couple. Though the drama (and running time) are left…
Killing of a Chinese Bookie, The (1976): Dir. John Cassavetes
Feat. Ben Gazzara; Cassavetes' most personal film concerns a strip–club owner (Ben Gazzara) who becomes indebted to the mob. An acquired taste for this one as…
Mikey and Nicky (1976): Dir. Elaine May
Feat. Peter Falk, John Cassavetes, Ned Beatty…; Loosely improvised drama, with a wild–eyed John Cassavetes calling on old pal Peter Falk to help escape the Mob. Turns out he may not be such a…
Two Minute Warning (1976): Dir. Larry Peerce
Feat. Charlton Heston, John Cassavetes, Martin Balsam…; Questionable Charlton Heston thriller set in a pro–football stadium, where a group of cops must take down a sniper in the crowd before he opens…
Opening Night (1977): Dir. John Cassavetes
Feat. John Cassavetes, Gena Rowlands, Ben Gazzara; Intermittently fascinating, semi–improvised opus from Cassavetes (who also stars), about an aging actress (Gena Rowlands) who suffers a…
Fury, The (1978): Dir. Brian De Palma
Feat. Kirk Douglas, John Cassavetes; Despite a barmy sci–fi plot concerning telekinetic teenagers being used for military experiments, this Brian de Palma–directed thriller…
Brass Target (1978): Dir. John Hough
Feat. Sophia Loren, John Cassavetes, Robert Vaughn…; A classic 70's all–star cast feature in this post–World War II suspense film that suggests that the German automobile crash involving…
Gloria (1980): Dir. John Cassavetes
Feat. Gena Rowlands, Buck Henry, Julie Carmen; Rowlands is devastating as a gangster moll who runs from the Mob after taking protective custody of a neighbour's son, whose parents have fallen…
Tempest (1982): Dir. Paul Mazursky
Feat. John Cassavetes, Gena Rowlands, Susan Sarandon; Paradise is found and then lost for John Cassavetes who escapes mid–life crisis and flees to the Greek Isles with his daughter. Loosely based…
Love Streams (1984): Dir. John Cassavetes
Feat. John Cassavetes, Gena Rowlands, Seymour Cassel; Rarely–seen film by indie iconoclast John Cassavetes, described by some as he at his self–indugent worst, but praised in other quarters…
Big Trouble (1985): Dir. John Cassavetes
Feat. Peter Falk, Alan Arkin, Charles Durning…; Cassavette's final film is far from a fitting finale to the iconoclast's career, but its not without its charms. Arkin plays a besieged insurance…

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