<![CDATA[favorite film?]]>Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — John Cassavetes

bendy11 — 20 years ago(August 06, 2005 10:00 PM)

I have only seen two Cassavettes films: Shadows and Killing of a Chinese Bookie. I did not think that either of them were great, but I found them both very, very interesting; I liked their style. Watching them made me think, "This movie was not a masterpiece, but this guy is a very good director." What do you think is his best film?

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Faces
A Woman under the influence
Opening Night
Gloria
Shadows

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1). The Killing of a Chinese Bookie 10/10
2). Faces 10/10
3). A Woman Under the Influence 10/101c84
4). Shadows 9/10
5). Minnie and Moskowitz 8/10
6). Opening Night 7/10

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  1. A Woman Under The Influence
  2. Faces
  3. Love Streams
  4. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
  5. Shadows
  6. Husbands
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  1. Faces (10/10)
  2. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (10/10 for 1978 version, intend on seein 76)
  3. Woman Under the Influence (10/10)
  4. Shadows (9.5/10)
  5. Husbands (8/1b680)
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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

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Right now it's Minnie and Moskowitz. You can't beat the scene when Zelmo freaks out on his blind date with Rowlands.
"Anyway, we delivered the Bomb."

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  1. Gloria 10/10
  2. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie 9/10
  3. Opening Night 8 1/2 out of 10.
  4. Husbands 8 out of 10.
    Cassavetes rocks!
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A Woman under the influence then Faces.
The first is one of my very preferred films. Reading how this was made and how Gena Rowlands responded to John's directing is an amazing journey.

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I was always partial to The Dirty Dozen or The Incubus. He's great in both films.

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A Woman Under The Influence ('74) followed by Husbands ('70) and Faces ('68)

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From earth-shatteringly brilliant to damn good stuff, in that order.

  1. Husbands
  2. A Woman Under the Influence
  3. Faces
  4. Love Streams
  5. Killing of a Chinese Bookie (long cut)
  6. Minnie and Moskowitz
  7. Opening Night
  8. Shadows
  9. 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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  1. husbands
  2. woman under the influence
  3. opening night
  4. killing of a chineese bookie
  5. faces
  6. love streams
  7. shadows
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  1. Love Streams
  2. Faces
  3. A Woman under the influence
  4. Minnie and Moskowitz
  5. Husbands
  6. Shadows
  7. Opening Night
  8. The Killing of a chinese Bookie
  9. A Child is waiting
  10. Gloria
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Husbands is great, and so are Faces and A Woman Under The Influence.
I'm dying to see Minnie And Moskowitz and Love Streams!!

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Opening Night
Minnie and Moskowitz
Faces
Gloria
A Woman Under The Influence

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EDGE OF THE CITY FROM 1957 WITH SIDNEY POITIER

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