More: John Cassavetes Movies The New Yorker Movie Club His tribute to Cassavetes’s last major film, “Love Streams,” reveals his profound sympathy with Cassavetes, the artist and the man. He is considered a pioneer of American independent film, as he often financed his own films. John Cassavetes' "Faces" is the sort of film that makes you want to grab people by the neck and drag them into the theater and shout: "Here!" It would be a triumphant shout. Sep 11, 2015 - Explore barneaziv's board "John Cassavetes", followed by 372 people on Pinterest. In 1983, during the production of John Cassavetes’s Love Streams, journalist Michael Ventura was hired by Cannon Films executive Menahem Golan to make a promotional documentary about the company’s first Cassavetes picture. John Cassavetes was a Greek-American actor, film director, and screenwriter. See more ideas about John cassavetes, Gena rowlands and Film. Cassavetes was born in New York City in 1929 to Nicholas John Cassavetes and his wife, Katherine Demetre (1906-1983).
Year after year, we get a tide of bilge that passes for "the American way of life" in the movies. The most difficult thing in the world is to reveal yourself, to express what you have to... As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all, we must dare to fail. See more ideas about John cassavetes, Gena rowlands and Film. John Cassavetes started his career as an actor, most notably in Rosemary's Baby, but ended up becoming one of the catalysts for independent filmmaking -- a director who had his finger on the pulse of artists who wanted to create something outside of the predictability of the studio system. 10 quotes from John Cassavetes: 'Most people don't know what they want or feel. And for everyone, myself included, It's very difficult to say what you mean when what you mean is painful. Jul 7, 2015 - the backbone of American Indie.