To mark a new retrospective of his films, she makes an exception for. The film that changed my life the film that changed my life. In the end, cassavetes said that he agreed to do the film largely as a favor to rowlands, who relished the idea of playing a largerthanlife role. Gloria gena rowlands, a selfinvolved woman in her forties who was once a mobsters mistress, is asked to look after philip juan adames, the son of. John cassavetes 19291989 john cassavetes was a greekamerican actor, film director, and screenwriter.
His early years were spent with his family in greece. Als man sie zum erstenmal sieht, da tragt sie uber einem silberfarbenen hausanzug einen trenchcoat. Gena rowlands turns hear her rare conversation on a. John cassavetes is a true genius with all the films he has made but gloria is the best film he has made and my personal favourite. The name john cassavetes is usually at the top of any list of american independent filmmakers. Probably the most fascinating and exhaustively indepth book on one filmmaker ive ever read. Mar 02, 2001 since his death in 1989, gena rowlands has been notoriously reluctant to discuss the work of her husband, john cassavetes. The five films in this collectionall of which the director maintained total control over by financing. Gloria gena rowlands, a selfinvolved woman in her forties who was once a mobsters mistress, is asked to look after philip juan adames, the son of her mafiaconnected puerto rican neighbors. Rowlands earned another best actress nomination for it.
After receiving the critics award at that years venice film festival, it finally was released in the u. Gloria 1980 film gloria is a 1980 american thriller crime drama film written and directed by john cassavetes. The original trailer in high definition of gloria directed by john cassavetes and starring gena rowlands, buck henry, julie carmen, tony. An amazing john cassavetes interview from the midseventies on filmmaking and his 1974 film a woman under the influence. Gloria may be a good movie but i was too mesmerized by gena rowlands performance to pay attention to john cassavetes direction. Gloria is arguably the clearest example of this in cassavetes oeuvre, especially in the opening scenes. In john cassavetess first feature, shadows, which he shot in two bursts, in 1957 and 1959, largely on the streets of new york, the director featured characters ranging from a. Cassavetes, dans ce film censement grand public et plus accessible, renverse avec delectation les codes. The ingredients ensure that the overall mixture is far from colloidal, but glorias most salient feature is rowlandss extraordinarily wellrounded embodiment of the titular role. Before he is killed, however, he manages to entrust the ledger and his son to a neighbor, gloria, for protection.
A former theater actor fascinated by the power of improvisation, cassavetes brought his search for truth in performance to the screen. He captures so well the unlikely alliance between a six year old puerto rican boy whose family has been killed by the mob and an ex gangsters moll. John cassavetess gloria 1980 offers a veritable treatise on these questionsand its response is quite unlike any other film that centers on a roughly similar relationship, from peter bogdanovichs paper moon 1973 to erick zoncas julia 2008. Little house on the prairie tribute videos by me recommended for you. John cassavetes, born december 9, 1929, new york, new york, u.
Sep 23, 2018 that glorias harried look is the result of her budding, genuine concern for phil adds yet another emotional wrinkle to the film, a further demonstration of cassavetess mastery of complex tones through his subtle direction and trust in his actors. His selffinanced films portray his interest in the human individual and his or her emotional experiences, while the works themselves exemplify the nontraditional ways that a filmmaker is able to take in order to bring a story onto. John cassavetes foretog ett atervandande till utgangspunkten. Dawn john adames in seinem filmdebut ubernehmen, als dessen familie in einem. Godfather of american independent cinema john cassavetes led his stable of fearless actorspeter falk, ben gazzara, seymour cassel, and, especially, wife gena rowlandsinto hitherto uncharted cinematic territory, portraying raw human emotion with radical realism and penetrating insight. Steadfastly working outside the hollywood studio system, cassavetes 19291989. An accountant buck henry is in possession of a ledger which could put a number of mob bosses behind bars for a long time. Framed in mid shots with one cassavetes closeup for glorias entrance, naturally the film visually looks like an unadventurous clone of any other hollywood action movie of the same era. Nov 06, 2016 short sequence extracted from the film 1980, gloria starring gena rowlands and directed by her husband john cassavetes.
Buy a woman under the influence on dvd and blu ray john cassavetess powerful drama stars gena rowlands and peter falk as a bluecollar couple struggling to cope with the wifes slide into mental illness. It stars gena rowlands, julie carmen, buck henry, and john adames. Carney has pretty much devoted his life to studying cassavetes and telling the true story of his life, much to the chagrin of his wife, gena rowlands, who has stopped every great thing carney has tried to do to preserve his legacy, including releasing early cuts of shadows and faces. Innovativ kamerahasznalataval, egyeni szemleletmodjaval, az improvizacio bator hasznalataval a cinema verite amerikai megfelelojet hozta letre. He raised his own production funds and wrote, directed, and often starred in the features he made, alongside a stalwart group of loyal actors. It tells the story of a gangsters girlfriend who goes on the run with a young boy who is being hunted by the mob for information he may or may not have. Gloria 1980, made for columbia rather than faces international, featured yet another superb effort by rowlands as a former prostitute who goes on the lam with an eightyearold boy after his family is killed by the mobsters who employed his dad as an accountant. An interview with actress gena rowlands on the occasion of a john cassavetesrowlands retrospective at nycs metrograph. John cassavetes was a greekamerican actor, film director, and screenwriter. Vhs trailer for the 1980 gangster thriller gloria, directed by john cassavetes and starring gena rowlands.
Gloria 1980 john cassavetes, gena rowlands, buck henry. Gloria is a 1980 american thriller crime drama film written and directed by john cassavetes. Mar 11, 2020 john cassavetes, american film director and actor regarded as the father of the independent film movement in the united states. Living does not involve doing anything but being somethinga much harder task for both a character and a viewer to deal with. Actordirector john cassavetes is remembered as the godfather of american independent filmmakers. Most of his films were painstakingly made over many months or years and were. Mar 09, 2003 to anyone who was ever driven to the point of vertigo or nausea by the frameontherun camera work of previous cassavetes touchstones shadows or faces, glorias cinematography is surprisingly sleek and feline. Framed in mid shots with one cassavetes closeup for glorias entrance, naturally the film visually looks like an unadventurous clone of any. I ndie godfather john cassavetes transforms gena rowlands into his own little pam grier in this oddly sweetandsour, pgrated mob melodrama with, naturally, a cute orphan kid. Cassavetes directed the film gloria 1980, featuring rowlands as a mob moll who tries to protect an orphan boy whom the mob wants to kill. Cassavetes was born in new york city in 1929 to nicholas john cassavetes and his wife, katherine demetre 19061983. Cassavetes was a pioneer of american independent film, writing and directing over a dozen movies, which he partially selffinanced. Cassavetes was born in new york city in 1929, to nicholas john cassavetes and his wife katherine demetre 19061983. John cassavetes film shadows is an american classic.
There even appear to be a few tossedoff steadicam shots up escalators and down hallways. Excerpts from cassavetes on cassavetes chapter on the making of gloria 19791980 click here for best printing of text. John cassavetess films include rosemarys baby, a woman under the influence, faces, opening night. Although shadows 1959, his breakthrough film, was not the first american movie outside the system, it became a rallying point for future generations. John cassavetess emotionally charged film stands as one of the great american movies about theatre and the art of performance. Directed a woman under the influence, the killing of a chinese bookie, and faces. Gloria 1980 john cassavetes, gena rowlands, buck henry, julie carmen, crime, drama, thriller january, 2016 mild mannered jack dawn has been secretly working as an accountant for the mob. Film profile for john cassavetes, actor and director, born 9 december 1929. Director john cassavetes, known for his unique approach to filmmaking, creates a powerful, tensionfilled story. In possession of a book that the gangsters want, the pair go on the run in new york. John cassavetes biography, movie highlights and photos. He directed such movies as faces 1968, husbands 1970, and a woman under the influence 1974, and he appeared in the dirty dozen 1967 and rosemarys baby 1968. The films success brought cassavetes to the attention of paramount, who hired him to direct the 1961 drama too late blues with bobby darin. You can kind of tell he didnt plan on making it himself when he wrote it, the kid is annoying to no end and despite the interaction between gloria and the mob when she tries to fix everything, the movie after that point pretty.
Nicholas was an immigrant from greece, while katherine was. The movie was a financial and critical disaster, and he. John cassavetes opening night tells the story of an alcoholic actress going through the final agony of bottoming out, while surrounded by people whose lives she is making impossible, and who are not nearly as angry with her as they should be. In pretty much all other treatments of this sort of storyline, the film will opt for focusing much of its. Films include rosemarys baby, the dirty dozen, and opening night. December 9, 1929 february 3, 1989 was an american actor, film director, and screenwriter. When a young boys family is killed by the mob, their tough neighbor gloria becomes his reluctant guardian. Short sequence extracted from the film 1980, gloria starring gena rowlands and directed by her husband john cassavetes. Resolutely independent, john cassavetes shunned commercial conventions and hollywood expectations to depict the subtleties and struggles of human relationships in new.
Gena rowlands on the work of her husband, john cassavetes. Regie des bekannten amerikanischen drehbuchautors john cassavetes. Gena rowland et son mari john cassavetes talks filmmaking in 1975 audio interview w. He is considered a pioneer of american independent film, as he often financed his own films. An influential figure in film history, john cassavetes is known as the father of independent film.
You can kind of tell he didnt plan on making it himself when he wrote it, the kid is annoying to no end and despite the interaction between gloria and the mob when she tries to fix everything, the movie after that point pretty much sucked. John cassavetes as johnny staccato, 1959 john cassavetes began his career in film in 1953 and ended it in 1986, between which times he was involved in every aspect of the film, television, and stage arts, including acting, directing, scoring, shooting, editing, producing, and marketing. Cassavetes was born in new york city, the son of katherine cassavetes who was to feature in some of his films and nicholas john cassavetes, greek immigrants to the u. Cassavetes does that in two key areas with gloria with the title character herself and her relationship with the kid that shes reluctantly tasked with looking after. John cassavetes was a genius, a visionary, and the progenitor of american independent film, but that doesnt begin to get at the generosity of his art. Cassavetes was often labelled an improvisational filmmaker, but his films were almost entirely scripted. A scene from john cassavetes gloria 1980, starring gena rowlands. With gena rowlands, buck henry, julie carmen, tony knesich.
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