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Walk past the new Jackie Robinson and Pee Wee Reese monument outside Keyspan Park in Coney Island, and you'll see a moment frozen in time.
Prints That Shine Anew: Cassavetes, Bergman and More at MoMA
More than 25 movies rescued from the ravages of time and neglect will be featured in this year's edition of "To Save and Project," the Museum of Modern Art's annual festival of recently preserved films.
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Weitzman: Film festivals run the gamut around New York City, from 1962 to Doomsday
Lawrence of Arabia , starring Peter O'Toole and Omar Sharif. There are so many film festivals and celebrations happening this week, you may have to narrow your focus.
'a woman under the influence' at moma
Starting Saturday, New York's Museum of Modern Art will be screening the newly restored print of John Cassavetes's 1974 film, . Star Gena Rowlands will be there for Saturday's screening -- if you can make it that night, please give her a standing ovation for me.
Gena Rowlands as One Complicated Lady in A Woman Under the Influence
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.
Autumn Reflections: Dealing with Sundowners
I can't count the number of times I've watched the movie "The Notebook." Some might think it's a story about young summer love between a debutante and a mill worker who are separated by her disapproving parents and by war and how they find their way back to each other.
Pedro AlmodA3var's paean to womanhood, in particular motherhood and actresshood, is dedicated to three of the kind: Bette Davis, specifically for All about Eve; Gena Rowlands, for Opening Night; and Romy Schneider, for The Important Thing Is to Love .
Jean Hansen applies to be the music teacher at the Crawthorne State Training Institute, a boarding school for mentally handicapped children.
But aside from the fluke phenomenon that was Forrest Gump, it never quite happened.
But aside from the fluke phenomenon that was Forrest Gump, it never quite happened.
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 ...
Movie Review: My Sister's Keeper
Actor-turned-director Nick Cassavetes is on solid ground, and familiar terrain, with "My Sister's Keeper." The three-hankie weepy, based on the bestselling novel by Jodi Picoult, is very much in line with Cassavetes' previous melodramas "John Q," with Denzel Washington as the determined father of a young boy who needs a transplant; and "The ...
Nick Cassavetes remains an interesting case study. After years spent toiling as an actor in forgettable, masochistic, basic-cable fare like Sins of the Night or the third Delta Force movie -- you know, the one with Mike Norris, not Chuck Norris -- the tattooed New York native with the prestigious bloodline is now carving a niche behind the camera ...
No one could accuse director Nick Cassavetes of reluctance to trade on his father's name.
Nick & Cameron on 'My Sister's Keeper'
Real men do shed tears. That's the conclusion one gets from sitting down with Nick Cassavetes, the 6-foot-6-inch, square-jawed, mustachioed, multi-tattooed film director who was so wild and belligerent as a kid that his mother -- actress Gena Rowlands -- gave him a suitcase for his 16th birthday so he could pack up and move out.
She's 79. Miss Rowlands has been nominated for the best actress Oscar twice - A Woman Under the Influence and Gloria .
Nick Cassavetes tackles painful truths in My Sister's Keeper
Director Nick Cassavetes knows a little about making movies that elicit an emotional reaction.
Crazy In Love : Monday, 19:30, TCM Holly Hunter, Frances McDormand and Gena Rowlands play in this fine drama about a family of women who have suffered through the infidelities of their partners.
TV Q&a: Stone starred in 'Gloria' remake
QUESTION: Please supply the title of the movie where a woman who is a hired killer has her life turned upside down when she gets involved with a little boy.
Everyone gathered at Tosca Cafe on Sunday seemed under the influence of silver screen stardust as they awaited the arrival of film star Gena Rowlands .
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