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A Woman Under the Influence Directed by John Cassavetes Faces Distribution October 24 through 30, MOMA Although it'll be screening at MOMA right before Halloween, the holiday that most comes to mind when watching A Woman Under the Influence would have to be Mother's Day.

Jean Hansen applies to be the music teacher at the Crawthorne State Training Institute, a boarding school for mentally handicapped children.

I'm still trying to figure out whether it was a good thing to get into John Cassavetes' cinematic canon by starting off with "Husbands." Maybe I should've dipped into the late actor-filmmaker's more universally hailed movies, the ones that cemented his status as a pioneer of independent cinema: "Faces," "A Woman Under the Influence," "The Killing ...

I'm still trying to figure out whether it was a good thing to get into John Cassavetes' cinematic canon by starting off with "Husbands." Maybe I should've dipped into the late actor-filmmaker's more universally hailed movies, the ones that cemented his status as a pioneer of independent cinema: "Faces," "A Woman Under the Influence," "The Killing ...

Victor Kemper Produced by Al Ruban Written and Directed by John Cassavetes Reviewed by Glenn Erickson 2009 is definitely shaping up as Be Kind to Sony Home Video Year.

In the magazine this week, I review the new DVD release of John Cassavetes's " Husbands ," and allude to negative reviews the film received when it came out, in 1970, including one from Pauline Kael, in the January 2, 1971, issue of The New Yorker .

As a director, John Cassavetes isn't as famous as Steven Spielberg or George Lucas.

The independent film, A Woman Under the Influence , broke classic Hollywood film making by exploring previously tabooed topics, portraying a love story in a different way, pacing of the movie, and money invested in the film's making.

Husbands was written and directed by independent cinema pioneer John Cassavetes.

There were plenty of sniffles at the premiere of My Sister's Keeper , a movie about a family affected by their only daughter dying of leukemia, at the AMC Lincoln Square on Wednesday, June 24.

When actress Gena Rowlands arrived in Hollywood in the 1950s, she could easily have opted to take the Hollywood starlet route.