Overall theme of his films?
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death_jamm_productions — 14 years ago(February 29, 2012 03:07 AM)
I guess you haven't seen Too Late Blues
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Daffy-Duck-19 — 14 years ago(February 29, 2012 04:26 PM)
Thats one film out of how many?
Shadows
,
Faces
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Husbands
,
Minnie and Moskowitz
,
A Woman Under the Influence
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The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
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Opening Night
, and
Gloria
all use this technique. Not all of these films are great, but it does seem to be a very prominent trademark in his films. -
death_jamm_productions — 14 years ago(March 01, 2012 11:29 AM)
Gloria documentary style? I disagree with you on that
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franzkabuki — 13 years ago(May 25, 2012 01:35 AM)
"He let people talk as they do in real life, just droning on and on, about stupid pointless stuff. This is where his true greatness lies".
Hilarious. The best kind of anti-advertisement one could conceivably come up with.
Unfortunately, its all true though - and makes Faces as well as, in parts, Chinese Bookie so annoying theyre borderline unwatchable. I think Ive got a vague sense of what hes getting at with these numbers, but seems nothing much eventually made it there. If it wasnt for the surprisingly outstanding Woman Under The Influence, Id definitely say Cassavetes should have stuck to acting jobs.
And since this ceaseless yammering seems to be universally cited as a trademark, I aint too sure theres much point in giving him any further chances. Especially as the running times of his films mostly seem to well exceed 2 hours.
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elisedfr — 12 years ago(July 01, 2013 01:32 PM)
Cassavetes has this reputation of documentary-style and spontaneitybut apparently his scripts were pretty specific. Actors were not running around, saying whatever came to their mind. I saw a short documentary recently about the filming of a scene from Love Streams and everything was pretty much in control by Cassavetes and his team. "Stupid pointless stuff" is not the best expression one could use: his scripts were often meditative, philosophical and sometimes a bit abstract. But stupid, err
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