Shadows
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cassavetes45 — 14 years ago(May 16, 2011 07:44 PM)
sorry for the late reply but i forgot about this.
i also loved the scenes that you have mentioned. that one with peter falk chasing the girl in the rain was truly a cinematic beauty. and the part with him talking to that weird older woman in the casino was priceless! i too noticed that odd thing she was doing with her mouth!hahaha! what the heck was THAT all about??!!
i understand why you didn't quite enjoy the scene with john and jenny in the bedroom. it was indeed too long, and too over the top. but i suppose that's just JC doing his stuff, as usual.
just a little asidewhen jenny runs out of the coffee shop in the rain, unbeknownst to her, john had planted some oil on the sidewalk so she would slip and fall. what a little bastard he could be! and i say that lovingly.
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orchidclub — 14 years ago(May 16, 2011 08:03 PM)
Haha oh man, I didn't know that! I did wonder whether the fall was on purpose or accidental, and I assumed the latter knowing what I know about Cassavetes' films, but that's too much!
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dookiemestrebug — 13 years ago(December 25, 2012 05:03 PM)
Haven't seen 10 of his films yet.
- Love Streams
- Faces
- A Woman Under The Influence
- Shadows
- Opening Night
- The Killing Of a Chinese Bookie
they're all great films. The first 2 are easily in my top 30 films.
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orchidclub — 14 years ago(May 12, 2011 05:49 AM)
- Gloria *****
- Opening Night *****
- Love Streams *****
- A Woman Under the Influence *****
- Minnie and Moskowitz ***
- Shadows ***
- Faces ***
- Husbands ***
- A Child Is Waiting ***
- The Killing of a Chinese Bookie **1/2
I've yet to 1354see Too Late Blues or Big Trouble, but I will very soon and revise this list if I like them.
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death_jamm_productions — 14 years ago(May 20, 2011 06:23 PM)
Too late blues is excellent though could have been masterful with another lead actor and Big Trouble is just worth watching for Falk who is a master comic actor, Arkin shows that the In Laws was a fluke in terms of his ability
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Tyler_Seymour_Wallach — 14 years ago(November 06, 2011 09:51 AM)
Haven't seen ten, but (I'll update every time I see another of his):
01.
The Killing Of A Chinese Bookie
(9/10)
02.
Opening Night
(8/10)
03.
Gloria
(8/10)
04.
Too Late Blues
(7/10)
Watching
Gloria
tonight and
Faces
sometime soon. I think Cassavetes is the greatest technical director based on the first two alone, but in terms of telling a story, or as he put it "Being an adult," his narratives tend to exhaust their stay. The opening of
Opening Night
is some of the most brilliant filmmaking of all-time, but as it progresses and Cassavetes focuses on supporting characters for long one-shots it loses its charm and becomes another morbid look at adulthood. That's the one I've most recently seen.
Shame Review:
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