Alexander The Great
Before William Shatner assumed command of the Enterprise or Adam West donned a cape and cowl, they co-starred in the television pilot episode of a series called Alexander The Great… Read more »
Tag: John Cassavetes
The Fury
Brian De Palma’s follow up to Carrie (1976) was The Fury (1978), a film that is at once both the last breath of the classic Hollywood star persona (Kirk Douglas)… Read more »
Accidental Genius
The best book about filmmaker John Cassavetes is Ray Carney’s epic tome Cassavetes On Cassavetes. Carney’s seminal text is comprised of extensive interviews with Cassavetes as well as years of… Read more »
Mikey & Nicky
Elaine May re-teamed with her Luv (1967) co-star Peter Falk for her definitive statement on masculine frailty Mikey & Nicky (1976). May spent a long time in pre-production on the… Read more »
Two-Minute Warning
Well, it’s Super Bowl Sunday, 2023, which means that it is time for me to revisit my favorite of all football related movies: Two-Minute Warning (1976). As is the case… Read more »
A Child Is Waiting
John Cassavetes’ third feature film, A Child Is Waiting (1963), opens with one of the most heartbreaking scenes in American cinema. Ted Widdicombe (Steven Hill) has just brought his son… Read more »
The Incubus
In a small Canadian town something or someone is terrorizing young women. In an attempt to procreate it has been attacking women and killing those with whom it has been… Read more »
Saddle The Wind
Saddle The Wind (1958) should be a classic western. Rod Serling’s script brings an existential dread to the familiar tale of a brother trying to pull his younger brother back… Read more »
Opening Night
John Cassavetes’ film Opening Night (1977) is not surreal in the traditionally filmic sense, but in many ways comes closer to surrealism than most American films that claim to do so. Opening… Read more »
Too Late Blues
John Cassavetes is a filmmaker noted for his films with naturalistic acting, kinetic camera movements, and an emphasis on behaviorism over narrative motivation, and for being one of the first… Read more »
