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	John Cassavetes
		John Cassavetes' approach to filmmaking as cinema verite captures the honesty and integrity of human emotion unembellished.
		Using medium shots, Cassavetes places us in the center of the milieu: a guest at the dinner table, a coworker listening to Nick's guilt and denial over his wife's commitment, a party reveler welcoming the recuperated Mabel home.
		In contrast to the active and confrontational camerawork of his earlier films (most notably in Faces), John Cassavetes creates a spare, muted, and objective portrait, capturing with underlying compassion the empty lives of emotionally adrift characters who act out the ache of their unarticulated despair through incomprehensible, cruel, and often self-destructive acts.
	www.filmref.com /directors/dirpages/cassavetes.html (1111 words)

	John Cassavetes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Nicholas Cassavetes (Greek: Ιωάννης Νικολάου Κασσαβέττης) (December 9, 1929 - February 3, 1989) was a Greek-American actor, screenwriter, and director.
		Cassavetes was born in New York City to Nicholas John Cassavetes and Katherine Demetri, Greek immigrants.
		Cassavetes died from cirrhosis of the liver in 1989 at the age of 59.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Cassavetes (984 words)

	The DVD Journal \| Reviews : John Cassavetes: Five Films: The Criterion Collection
		But Cassavetes' characters, even when utterly blitzed on booze, are chiefly under the influence of love, an emotion as essential as air and potent enough to drive the most stable individual over the precipice of madness and into the mental abyss of a padded room.
		Cassavetes, however, is too interested in all of his youthful characters to train his focus on just one, rendering Shadows, more than any of his subsequent works, a fantasia on any number of themes irritating the national conscience as the country headed into the turbulent 1960s.
		Cassavetes is savaging masculine vanity once again in The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976); it's what leads Cosmo to stupidly gamble his way into a $23,000 debt while trying to impress his coterie of dancers, whom he's tagged along to impress his fellow players.
	www.dvdjournal.com /reviews/j/johncassavetes_cc.shtml (3944 words)

	John Cassavetes - Voyager, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Cassavetes was born in New York City to Nicholas John Cassavetes and Katherine Demetri, both of whom were Greek immigrants.
		Cassavetes held an unflinching camera on the pettiness and emotional greed of the distancing husband and wife and their lovers, but in the end the pathos of their story gives them an unexpected dignity.
		Cassavetes was a good friend and mentor of director Martin Scorcese, who was an impressionable young man just getting his start in the film industry in New York City, New York.
	voyager.in /John_Cassavetes (1542 words)

	The religion of director John Cassavetes
		John Cassavetes retained a strong sense of Greek identity throughout his life, but John Cassavetes does not appear to have been active in the Greek Orthodox church as an adult.
		Although John Cassavetes was seen as an iconoclastic, highly individualistic outsider in his artistic and professional life, he was exceptionally traditional with regard to his famous devotion to his wife and family.
		John Cassavetes was committed not only to his own marriage and family, but also to the idea of marriage and family in general.
	www.adherents.com /people/pc/John_Cassavetes.html (2641 words)

	John Cassavetes: Inventor of Forms
		Every moment of Cassavetes' cinema is testament to waves of cloudy sentiment, knots of frazzled reaction, gestures that begin to express one fleeting state of an individual's soul and end up expressing another, such as we believe we have never seen on screen before or since.
		All of Cassavetes' films transform human questions - all those "questions about love, identity, and definition", (4) what it is to be and maintain a couple, a family, a community, an individual-in-society - into, at the same time, urgent questions of representation.
		Here, Cassavetes meets Ruiz and Lynch in the history of cinematic forms: even the most matter-of-fact edit has the potential to flip the fictional world and its elements into a strange, parallel universe, in which bodies are suddenly snatched and identities trade their places.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/01/16/cassavetes_forms.html (5525 words)

	The Film Journal...Passionate and informed film criticism from an auteurist perspective.
		And in the final sequence Cassavetes kneels in his driveway to comfort his young daughter while his son appears, like a blur, at the edge of the frame, a brief moment that resonates long after the film is over.
		To gain the businessman's confidence, Cassavetes assured him that the script, which was not yet written, was completed, and that his two co-stars, who had only briefly discussed the possibility of even making the movie, were fully committed to the film.
		Except for one disturbing exchange between Cassavetes and Rowlands, when he informs her that his wife has attempted suicide, the tone of the film is lighthearted, almost slapstick (in one sequence Cassel chases Rowlands down a sidewalk in his truck).
	www.thefilmjournal.com /issue7/cassavetes.html (4701 words)

	Portrait of an Artist: John Cassavetes
		An idiosyncratic interpretation of Shakespeare’s The Tempest with an eccentric Prospero figure (played by Cassavetes himself) at its center, Love Streams is a richly self-reflective work that revisits scenes, characters, and events from his previous films in a cinematic meditation on the meaning of a life lived in art.
		Subtitled "An Exploration of the Life and Art of John Cassavetes," this expansive new documentary is the film Cassavetes aficionados have been waiting for: a rich and meaty examination of the director’s working methods, thematic concerns, and artistic philosophy.
		Ray Carney, Professor of Film and American Studies at Boston University and author of The Films of John Cassavetes and the forthcoming Cassavetes on Cassavetes, will screen and discuss a selection of rare videos from his personal collection in which Cassavetes talks about his life and films and is shown working with actors in rehearsal.
	www.harvardfilmarchive.org /calendars/00sepoct/cassavetes.htm (742 words)

	MovieMaker Magazine \| Issue #12 \| The Courage of John Cassavetes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Cassavetes, who died in 1989 at the age of 59, wouldn't have given a damn.
		Cassavetes directed the studio-backed movies (Too Late Blues, A Child Is Waiting, Gloria) without final cut, and acted in others (The Dirty Dozen, Rosemary's Baby), to finance his art.
		Cassavetes' vision, as derided and dismissed as it was by critics and the public, was relentless.
	www.moviemaker.com /issues/12/cassavetes.html (1189 words)

	John Cassavetes: Five Films - DVD Movie Central
		Cassavetes was certainly not the first American auteur, but his undeniable influence upon subsequent generations of up-and-coming young filmmakers and his championship of artistic individuality has made this iconoclastic director virtually synonymous with independent cinema, even more than a decade after his passing.
		Cassavetes wanted to "capture a feeling" in his films, and his actors were given a liberal amount of freedom to develop their characters and to explore the full realm of raw human emotions.
		First is "Cassavetes on Cassavetes," a brief excerpt from Monthly Film Bulletin, July 1978, in which the director examines the potential impact of one pivotal scene from the film.
	www.dvdmoviecentral.com /ReviewsText/john_cassavetes_five_films.htm (1648 words)

	John Cassavetes @ Filmbug UK
		Cassavetes was born in New York City to Greek immigrants.
		Cassavetes held an unflinching camera on the pettiness and emotional greed of the distancing husband and wife and their lovers, but in the end the pathos of their story gives them a unexpected dignity.
		Cassavetes continued to work through the 1980s, although personal troubles with alcohol were beginning to take their toll.
	www.filmbug.co.uk /db/30479 (1098 words)

	MAGAZINE \| INDIES \| Cassvetes \| VOL 27-5: JAN 2003
		Cassavetes was reflecting acutely on death, but critics and audiences felt that the desperation went over the top.
		Cassavetes and Rowlands were one of those fortunate mutually enriching partnerships in which Cassavetes creates roles that it is not easy to think of anyone but Rowlands performing so well, so vividly and so movingly.
		Cassavetes' films often seemed to have an unfinished quality as if there were more to be said or some kind of closure required.
	www.dga.org /news/v27_5/indie_cassavetes.php3 (1496 words)

	Maestros-John Cassavetes
		Cassavetes first entered the film industry as an actor, but found his true passion while directing SHADOWS (1959).
		Cassavetes is known for his unconventional, experimental methods for shaping performances: extensive rehearsals with freedom for emotional improvisation.
		Cassavetes believed the raw truth of film relied on honest preformances, thus, de-emphasizing the camera's role.
	www.nextpix.com /v1_1/salon/cassavetes.html (362 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Films of John Cassavetes : Pragmatism, Modernism, and the Movies: Books: Ray Carney (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The Films of John Cassavetes: Pragmatism, Modernism, and the Movies is the first book to tell in detail the story of a maverick filmmaker who worked outside the studio system.
		Cassavetes is revealed to be a profoundly thoughtful and self-aware filmmaker and a deeply philosophical thinker, whose work takes its place in the American tradition along with the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson and William James.
		The Films of John Cassavetes tells the inside story of the making of six of Cassavetes' most important works: Shadows, Faces, Minnie and Moskowitz, A Woman Under the Influence, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, and Love Streams.
	www.amazon.ca /Films-John-Cassavetes-Pragmatism-Modernism/dp/0521388155 (523 words)

	Amazon.fr : Cassavetes on Cassavetes: Livres en anglais: Ray Carney,Raymond Carney,John Cassavetes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		"Cassavetes' films were quarried from his most private feelings and experiences," writes editor Ray Carney in his introduction to Cassavetes on Cassavetes, and then illustrates his point with the writings, interviews and recorded conversations of a beloved cult figure.
		Cassavetes alternated routine acting work with efforts to mount and direct low-budget personal films, often starring wife Gena Rowlands and friends like Peter Falk and Ben Gazzara.
		Cassavetes was a self-described "bigmouth" and "troublemaker" as well as a prolific writer and talker.
	www.amazon.fr /Cassavetes-on-Ray-Carney/dp/0571201571 (499 words)

	John Cassavetes Biography and Summary
		John Cassavetes (1929-1989) was one of the most highly acclaimed independent filmmakers in America.
		John Nicholas Cassavetes (Greek: Ιωάννης Νικαλάου Κασσαβέττης)(December 9, 1929- February 3, 1989) was an Greek-American actor, screenwriter, and director.
		Cassavetes, who is quite a good actor but a bad director and worse writer, has insisted ever more emph...
	www.bookrags.com /John_Cassavetes (351 words)

	The Criterion Collection: John Cassavetes: Five Films by John Cassavetes
		John Cassavetes has been called a genius, a visionary, and the father of independent film.
		Cassavetes has often been called an actor's director, but this body of work—even greater than the sum of its extraordinarily significant parts—reveals him to be an audience’s director.
		John Cassavetes’ devastating drama details the emotional breakdown of a suburban housewife and her family’s struggle to save her from herself.
	www.criterionco.com /asp/boxed_set.asp?id=250 (1047 words)

	John Cassavetes
		For 35 years, John Cassavetes held a unique position in American film, maintaining dual careers as a highly regarded actor in popular movies and as a director of independent films which themselves explored the art of acting.
		As an actor turning to directing, Cassavetes displayed many of the same concerns that characterized the approach of the film critics-turned-auteurs who were revolutionizing French cinema.
		Cassavetes died February 3, 1989, from cirrhosis of the liver.
	theoscarsite.com /whoswho5/cassavetes_j.htm (946 words)

	John Cassavetes
		Cassavetes, John 1929–89, American film actor and director, a pioneer of independent filmmaking, b.
		Cassavetes gathered around him a group of talented actors, such as Gina Rowlands (his wife), Peter Falk, and Ben Gazzara, who collaborated in the filmmaking process.
		John Cassavetes - John Cassavetes director, actor, screenwriter, producer Born: 12/9/1929 Birthplace: New York City...
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/people/A0921500.html (273 words)

	John Cassavetes News
		You might have no idea that legendary indie director John Cassavetes was once a TV detective named "Johnny Staccato," but the folks at "Brilliant But Canceled" do.
		John Cassavetes was a gifted actor who didn't want to act.
		But even people who don't like John Cassavetes must admit that he was an integral steppingstone in the world of independent film, a guy who showed that anybody, even...
	www.topix.net /who/john-cassavetes (699 words)

	A Woman Under the Influence (John Cassavetes): Gena Rowlands Peter Falk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Cassavetes, on the other hand, is the personification of cheap, raw, independent filmmaking.
		Nick’s mother (Cassavetes), fearing for the safety of her son and her grandchildren, wants Mabel sent to a mental institution.
		Gena Rowlands was John Cassavetes's wife from 1954 to his death in February 1989.
	www.altfg.com /Reviews/Womanundertheinfluence.htm (1227 words)

	Performing the everyday: Time and affect in John Cassavetes' Faces
		On the surface, the everyday is commensurate with an experience of boredom and tedium: to speak of the everyday is to speak of 'nothing out of the ordinary,' an incessant routine that we encounter and reencounter on a daily basis.
		In Cassavetes' work, the performance of character and identity is generated in the moment of filming, a moment that likewise leaves a trace on the performing body (of both character and actor) (7).
		In the last scene of the film where Richard (John Marley) and Maria sit on the staircase smoking, (after Richard has returned home from spending the night with a prostitute only to find Maria recovering from her own liaison with Chet), there is a decided ambiguity and uncertainty regarding their status as a couple.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/01/16/cassavetes_faces.html (3234 words)

	John Cassavetes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		OK, I may have gone over the top with that description, but Cassavetes is my all-time favorite filmmaker, and this is a great interview with him from the July 1971 issue of Playboy Magazine.
		This interview is from back when Playboy was actually a cool magazine to read (this issue also has an article by Woody Allen, and a story about "Leary in Limbo").
		Unfortunately, the story is in 100 dpi.jpg format, so it may not be easiest on the eyes.
	www.filbert.net /cassavetes.htm (112 words)

	GreenCine \| product main - John Cassavetes - Five Films (1959-2000)
		John Cassavetes' harrowing masterpiece charts the emotional meltdown of a suburban housewife and its effects on her blue-collar Italian family.
		Assembled from candid interviews with Cassavetes' collaborators and friends, rare photographs, archival footage, and the director's own words, the film paints a revealing portrait of a man whose fierce love, courage, and dedication changed the face of cinema forever.
		John Cassavetes takes a contemporary film noir turn (which he would return to in Gloria) after exploring domestic melodrama in A Woman Under the Influence with The Killing of a Chinese Bookie.
	www.greencine.com /webCatalog?id=105679 (1498 words)

	The Encyclopedia of Underground Movies - Books from Michael Wiese
		This book truly does serve as both a guide book and an encyclopedia, offering just about every kind of advise needed to master the art of the fringe film from the men and women who make them, collect them, and love them.
		Hall writes confidently and straightforwardly, highlighting such personalities as Maya Deren, John Cassavetes and Andy Warhol.
		Following that, Hall covers drama, sci-fi, horror, and documentaries, interviewing filmmakers involved with them, giving them time to comment on their loves just as much as they are his.
	www.mwp.com /books/other-crafts/encyclopedia.php4 (796 words)

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