favorite film?
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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.
My top 20:
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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?
"You must have chaos within you to give birth to a shining star" -
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.