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A political thriller of nebulous sympathies, set someplace in the Third World and populated by tyrants, terrorists, foreign business investors, and a pair of mercenaries formerly of the U.S. Marines.

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Producer-director John Cassavetes began with a simple premise: Three married men attend the funeral of their best friend, go on a drinking binge and run away from all responsibility by flying to London in search of life's meaning.

Video Event of the Week: Is it Sony's new DVD of indie pioneer John Cassavetes ' mid-life crisis epic Husbands , with Peter Falk and Ben Gazzara ? Could the Universal Blu-ray of Michael Clayton auteur Tony Gilroy 's hilarious Duplicity , with Clive Owen and Julia Roberts, conceivably make the cut? Or -- and I'm just throwing this out as a ...

The son of Sicilian immigrants, Ben Gazzara grew up on New York City's tough Lower East Side in a cold-water flat with the bathtub in the kitchen, speaking Italian as his first language.

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 ...

Gus , Harry , and Archie are long time best friends, living in the suburbs of New York.

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 ...

TWO major films of the 1970s, John Cassavetes 's "Husbands" and Chantal Akerman 's "Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles" have recently reappeared on DVD, a coincidence that's almost an act of film criticism in itself.

James Toback's "Tyson" perfectly shows that picking the right subject is at least half the battle when it comes to making a successful documentary.

John Cassavetes continues to delve the depths of the human condition with this story of three men who embark on a journey to cope with the death of their best friend.

Film from the pioneer of US independent cinema, John Cassavetes: his dramatic 1997 tale of a fading actress trying to keep going Performers Myrtle Gordon : Gena Rowlands Maurice Adams : John Cassavetes Manny Victor : Ben Gazzara Sarah Goode : Joan Blondell David Samuels : Paul Stewart Dorothy Victor : Zohra Lampert Nancy Stein : Laura Johnson Gus ...

Dylan Baker , "Happiness" This scorchingly funny 1998 indie from Todd Solondz features a stunning ensemble that includes Philip Seymour Hoffman, Lara Flynn Boyle, Camryn Manheim, and Ben Gazzara.

The Best of San Francisco Stage, Film, Fashion, Dining, Travel, Business, Philanthropy, and Governance - Challah Is Taken Saturday 25th of July 2009 << Previous - SAN FRANCISCO JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL - " Saturday and Sunday Line-up At The Castro Theatre 24 July 2009 Festival continues with exciting, romantic, and challenging films, interviews and ...

And now a dozen others our judges thought worthy of mention: Adam's Rib Nora Ephron scripted this serial adap tation of the Tracy-Hepburn classic.

This isn't a great movie, but it's valuable as a relic of the heyday of the Actors Studio and an example of what was considered provocative drama in its time.

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

Multiple-pairs romantic comedy by Peter Bogdanovich, whose concept of romance, as of comedy, tends to be hand-me-down and to not suit him very well.

Based on a play based on a novel by Calder Willingham, The Strange One holds a unique place in cinematic history.

THE MOVIE: How Ben Gazzara didn't become a huge star after The Strange One , I'll never know.