Cineastes de notre temps john cassavetes biography

  • The director is interviewed at his house in Hollywood in during the filming of Faces, and then three years later in Paris after the movie has finally been.
  • Cinéastes de notre temps has long been the holy grail of cinephile TV series.
  • Follows John Cassavetes in Hollywood in while he was editing Faces, and then in Paris in when the film was finished and awaiting distribution.

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    "A marginal figure in commercial terms, since his untimely death Cassavetes has emerged as one of the most influential American filmmakers, a model and an inspiration to innumerable independent directors." - Tom Charity (The Rough Guide to Film, )

    Director / Actor / Screenwriter
    () Born December 9, New York City, New York, USA
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    Key Production Country: USA
    Key Genres: Drama, Psychological Drama, Ensemble Film, Marriage Drama, Crime, Crime Drama, Showbiz Drama
    Key Collaborators: Gena Rowlands (Leading Actress), Seymour Cassel (Character Actor), Bo Harwood (Composer), Val Avery (Character Actor), Fred Draper (Character Actor), Al Ruban (Producer/Cinematographer), Peter Falk (Leading Character Actor), Phedon Papamichael (Production Designer), Ben Gazzara (Leading Actor), Tom Cornwall (Editor), Katharine Cassavetes (Character Actress), Lady Rowlands (Character Actress)

    "John Cassavetes’s independent films challenge distinctions between d

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    A Woman beneath the Influence premiered at the New York rulle Festival on 12 October

    It was the year-old John Cassavetes 7th bio as director. He had originally conceived of the project as a play, but when his wife Gena Rowlands read it, she said she would be unable to perform the emotionally intense character 8 times a week on scen, so Cassavetes turned it into a screenplay.

    Unable to raise any financing for the spelfilm, Cassavetes mortgaged his house and borrowed money from friends (Peter Falk provided almost $3 million in today’s value toward the project).

    Once filming was completed, Cassavetes couldn’t find a distributor, so personally called movie theaters to book the spelfilm. “It was the first time in the history of motion pictures that an independent film was distributed without the use of a nationwide struktur of sub-distributors.“ 

    A Woman beneath the Influence was nominated for 2 Academy Awards (Best Director and Best Actress), and Gena Rowlands w

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    LA SAGA: CINÉASTES, DE NOTRE TEMPS: UNE HISTOIRE DU CINÉMA EN FILMS

    Some of the most successful and fruitful ongoing enterprises related to film history have been either ignored or taken for granted (which sometimes amounts to the same thing) due to their omnipresence. In book publishing, the two most outstanding examples that come to mind are, in France, the series of monographs devoted to film directors issued by Seghers(which finally expired many years ago, I believe in the 70s or 80s) and, in the U.K., the BFI Classics and BFI Modern Classics, launched in and, to be the best of my knowledge, still going strong.

    Considerably more formidable is the series of odd French television documentaries about filmmakers produced by Janine Bazin (the widow of André Bazin) and André S. Labarthe, initially called Cinéastes de notre temps when it was produced by the ORTF between and , and revived as Cinéma, de notre tempswhen it was produced by Arte between and , the year that Janine Ba