favorite film?
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nsmith4 — 20 years ago(December 15, 2005 07:09 PM)
I just completed a course on Cassavetes and his films. We watched all his films except for Big Trouble. My order now would have to be the following:
Love Streams
A Woman Under The Influence
Husbands
Opening Night
Faces
Shadows
Killing of a Chinese Bookie
Gloria
Too Late Blues
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Anasazie — 20 years ago(January 23, 2006 04:08 PM)
It's great to see how many people realise just how important Faces is/was, probably the greatest USA-ian film of all time.
- Faces
- A Woman Under The Influence
- The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (original cut)
- Opening Night
- Shadows
Putting a film at the bottom of the list is quite difficult, especially considering that Shadows is one of the best USA-ian films of the 50s.
Truly brilliant film-maker.
"You must have chaos within you to give birth to a shining star"
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PTA-fan — 20 years ago(January 23, 2006 07:50 PM)
Why not just say American instead of USA-ian? That sounds sorta wierd. I haven't seen HUSBANDS, TOO LATE BLUES, A CHILD IS WAITING and BIG TROUBLE.
A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE
MINNIE AND MOSKOWITZ
LOVE STREAMS
THE KILLING OF A CHINESE BOOKIE (love both cuts the same)
OPENING NIGHT
SHADOWS
FACES
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PTA-fan — 20 years ago(January 25, 2006 10:36 PM)
First of all, America is a country, North America is a continent. And second, why are you referring to yourself in the third person?
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Anasazie — 20 years ago(January 26, 2006 12:44 AM)
USA is a country, not America, that's a continent. You must be from there, hence your inability to understand the difference. Your country doesn't even have it's own name. How stupid would it sound if France was called the United Provinces of Europe?
How am i talking about myself in the third person?
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PTA-fan — 20 years ago(January 26, 2006 06:08 PM)
and he's not from Brazil.
Who were you talking about from Brazil? I was refering to you and you mention some guy from Brazil.
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Anasazie — 20 years ago(January 29, 2006 02:15 PM)
are you a bit fick? which guy's message board are we posting on? you said why refer to John as USA-ian, i told you that it's because America is a continent and he's not from Brazil. Who do you think the 'he' means?
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samlowrysloveslave — 20 years ago(January 30, 2006 02:00 PM)
yeah so, moving back to the topic at hand
i love cassavetesdefinitely one of the most important american (no offense, but calling folks from the USA 'americans' is a convention that i won't even bother to challenge at the present moment) filmmakers in history
my top 5 personal favorites:- A Woman Under The Influenece (Gena Rowlands and Peter Falk are simply amazing)
- Faces (indeed one of the most important films ever made)
- Husbands (always surprised people don't like this morei think it's phenomenal for those reasons already listed)
- Shadows (amateur-ish for sure, but it's the acorn that grew into the oak)
- Gloria (yeah, that kid was no Brando but Gena kicks some serious ass in this one and i love her for it)
I'm afraid she's upped stumps and retired to the pavillion.
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freudified_n_funkified — 19 years ago(July 10, 2006 11:05 PM)
From earth-shatteringly brilliant to damn good stuff, in that order.
- Husbands
- A Woman Under the Influence
- Faces
- Love Streams
- Killing of a Chinese Bookie (long cut)
- Minnie and Moskowitz
- Opening Night
- Shadows
- Gloria
All but Gloria are 10/10s by the way. Gloria's probably an 8.
Cassavetes had the same quality as a director as he did as an actor when he was on-screen performing he had what can only be described as "it". You can't take your eyes off of him, and find yourself bored when he's not around. That's exactly how his filmmaking career was - cinema got boring when Cassavetes wasn't around.
Also some love should go out to SHE'S SO LOVELY. God only knows what Cassavetes would have done with this had he been able to helm it. It doesn't have hardly any of his directorial sensibilities, but it feels a little like how if those other 9 movies mentioned above were novels, SHE'S SO LOVELY is a nice little short story. I've got a lot of analogies today.