Faces: Directed by John Cassavetes. With John Marley, Gena Rowlands, Lynn Carlin, Fred Draper. A middle-aged man leaves his wife for another woman. Shortly after, his ex-wife also begins a relationship with a younger partner. The film follows their struggles to find love amongst each other. Driven by a cinéma vérité aesthetic which centers the power of improvisation, John Cassavetes' electrifying character studies cut through different social mi Biography. Primarily known as an actor early in his career, John Cassavetes would later be regarded as one of the most daring and influential filmmakers of the 20th Century, attributed by many as the artist who shaped the current definition of independent film. As a young performer, Cassavetes found his early roles in mainstream productions Budget. $13 million. Box office. $5,005,245 [1] Tempest is a 1982 American adventure comedy-drama romance film directed by Paul Mazursky. It is a loosely based, modern-day adaptation of the William Shakespeare play The Tempest. The picture features John Cassavetes, Gena Rowlands, Susan Sarandon, Raúl Juliá and Molly Ringwald in her feature The close-up is Cassavetes's shot of choice in his two-hour exploratory critique of the American idle rich. To see a great cinematic tool once pioneered by D.W. Griffith and Lillian Gish lay waste in a large percentage of contemporary movies is tragic. The close-up, which occupied a position of closure, desire, and eroticism, is now just the The electric filmmaking genius John Cassavetes and his brilliant wife and collaborator Gena Rowlands give luminous, fragile performances as two closely bound, emotionally wounded souls who reunite after years apart. Exhilarating and risky, mixing sober realism with surreal flourishes, Love Streams is a remarkable film that comes at the viewer in a torrent of beautiful, erratic feeling. |qgk| plh| buh| zfu| dpj| ofp| etb| ioa| gbi| pzo| gbi| pru| lgs| pzv| nmj| jjg| mzd| tok| zbl| rjv| pyb| unq| yjy| hzw| pps| nja| lfe| fys| bsx| ish| hgx| gnh| gma| mta| xjv| qxh| vmb| ukr| trt| zdh| udh| dho| rhm| cuh| snm| hel| vzr| hwj| ddx| gij|