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John Cassavetes' harrowing masterpiece charts the emotional meltdown of a suburban housewife and its effects on her blue-collar Italian family. Gena Rowlands stars as Mabel Longhetti, a mother of three whose husband Nick (Peter Falk) works as a construction worker; a mismatched couple like so many others in Cassavetes films, the Longhettis seem to be complete opposites: she's impetuous, extroverted, and fragile, while he's controlling, distant, and hard-bitten. Their differences underscore a series of domestic dramas, culminating in a nervous breakdown that sends Mabel to a psychiatric hospital for six months, only to return to a home environment on even thinner ice than before. The improvisational style central to Cassavetes' vision is at its most acute throughout A Woman Under the Influence. Like its title heroine, the film threatens to veer out of control at any time, its shape and scope defined not by narrative but by the emotional upheaval at its center. Embracing the full spectrum of the Longhettis' relationship, from seismic bursts of high drama to small, even trivial moments of domestic tedium, its long scenes relentlessly probe every nook and cranny of the family's life, drawing out each moment for maximum emotional impact; the film is by turns beautiful and ugly, illuminating and frustrating, and it features a performance by Rowlands as heartwrenching and unforgettable as any ever committed to celluloid.
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The disintegration of a marriage is dissected in John Cassavetes’ searing Faces. Shot in high-contrast 16mm black and white, the film follows the futile attempts of captain of industry Richard (John Marley) and his wife, Maria (Lynn Carlin), to escape the anguish of their empty marriage in the arms of others. Featuring astonishingly powerful, nervy performances from Marley, Carlin, and Cassavetes regulars Gena Rowlands and Seymour Cassel, Faces confronts suburban alienation and the battle of the sexes with a brutal honesty and compassion rarely matched in cinema.Click here for more information on this release
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Based on the terrifying novel by Ray Russell, John Hough's powerful rendering of a small town gripped in a wave of evil and fear, from which none will survive. Only one man has the secret of this extra-terrestrial nightmare.
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John Cassavetes n'a jamais véritablement revendiqué de filiation. Il admire Frank Capra parce que ses films montrent « la beauté des gens qui ont encore une espèce d'espoir et de dignité quel que soit le milieu dont ils sortent »
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Indy filmmakers like John Sayles and David Gordon Green have shown that a low budget does not automatically mean low production values. Minnie and Moskowitz, for its part, looks cheap, silly, dated, and amateurish in all technical aspects, but especially so in the writing where loose ends hang all over the place.
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At once funny, dramatic, ironic, and perplexing, Herman Melville's short story of an office clerk who slowly and inexorably shuts himself off from his job, his society, and ultimately his own life stars John McEnery and Paul Scofield. 78 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono; production notes; original shooting script.
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