favorite film?
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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.
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haciendacaliente — 19 years ago(November 20, 2006 07:26 PM)
I personally find it hard to subjectively "categorize" many of Cassavetes' films as being better/worse than the others, but I'll try (note: I haven't seen Husbands or Too Late Blues yet).
Greatest works:
Faces
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (the 1976 versionpersonally, if it weren't for Faces, this would probably be his greatest film)
Love Streams
A Woman Under The Influence
Just a shade below:
Opening Night
Minnie & Moskowitz (the scene with Zelmo is priceless)
Still pretty incredible, though not as essential:
Shadows
A Child Is Waiting
Blah:
Gloria -
MisterWhiplash — 19 years ago(March 05, 2007 05:03 PM)
- Faces (10/10)
- The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (10/10 for 1978 version, intend on seein 76)
- Woman Under the Influence (10/10)
- Shadows (9.5/10)
- Husbands (8/1b680)
"If it weren't for my horse I wouldn't of spent that year in college."
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movieman5000 — 19 years ago(March 06, 2007 09:31 PM)
- A Woman Under The Influence
- Faces
- Love Streams
- The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
- Shadows
- Husbands
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