Year of the Month: Losing Time in CERTIFIED COPY
Juliette Binoche has a knack for taking us to emotionally-layered places. As Elle, in the…
Year of the Month: MINNIE AND MOSKOWITZ Is an Earthly Love Story
“Seymour Moskowitz is the new symbol of hope in America” Leave it to John Cassavetes…
Year of the Month: FACES
In 1968, John Cassavetes stood out even in a year when radicalized artists were becoming…
The Year in Review: Revisiting the Late 60s
If, as I wrote in last year’s review, that the early 60s were in vogue…
A Woman Over the Influence: QUEEN OF EARTH
There’s a scene in Love Streams (1984), written and directed by John Cassavetes, where someone…
Before BIRDMAN: Films about Actors – Part 2: OPENING NIGHT
It is hardly surprising that, given John Cassavetes’s acting and directing philosophy that went sharply…
“Hear Me Roar” – Part 4: A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE
It seems hardly a coincidence that the looser construction of film narratives in the 70s…