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Wednesday Jul 1 | DVD Times

Husbands (Extended Cut) (R1) in August

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment have announced the Region 1 DVD release of Husbands on 18th August 2009 priced at $19.94 SRP.

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Tue Jun 30, 2009

Associated Content

Analyzing John Cassavetes' Film, a Woman Under the Influence

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.

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Related Topix: Shadows, Faces, Drama Movies

Mon Jun 29, 2009

DigitallyOBSESSED.com

John Cassavetes' Husbands First Time Ever on DVD Aug 18

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

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Related Topix: Faces, Drama Movies, Audio and Video, Electronics, Culver City, CA, Ben Gazzara

Fri Jun 12, 2009

Playbill

New Island Festival of Dutch Work to Play Governor's Island in September

Ivo van Hove's Toneelgroep Amsterdam, which presented a stage amalgam of John Cassavetes' film Opening Night to acclaim at BAM last season, will participate in the New Island Festival in late summer.

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Related Topix: Drama Movies, Opening Night, New York Metro, Brooklyn, NY, New York, NY

Tue Apr 28, 2009

7x7

SFIFF: Under the Influence

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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Related Topix: Drama Movies, Opening Night, Gena Rowlands

Sun Apr 26, 2009

Hell on Frisco Bay

SFIFF52 Day 4: a Woman Under the Influence

The 52nd San Francisco International Film Festival has begun and runs through May 7th.

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Related Topix: Love Streams, Faces, Drama Movies, Opening Night, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, Shadows

Thu Apr 23, 2009

J.B. Spins

Tribeca a 09: Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench

John Cassavetes might not be synonymous with jazz, but several of his films included jazz-related scores, including his masterful Shadows, featuring the music of Charles Mingus.

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Related Topix: Drama Movies, Shadows, Charles Mingus, Jazz, Boston Metro

Tue Mar 10, 2009

Bloomberg

Cassavetes's Cheap Film on Interracial Love Had Huge Impact: Peter Rainer

John Cassavetes was an intense actor who had a parallel career as a director of high drama.

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Related Topix: Drama, Shadows, Faces, Lelia Goldoni, Alec Guinness

Tue Mar 03, 2009

DVD Talk

Faces - Criterion Collection

The Movie: John Cassavetes' Faces hurls you into a nightmare of ordinary life and doesn't let you out until you've experienced all its fleeting joys and lasting pains.

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Related Topix: Faces, Drama, Shadows, John Marley, Lynn Carlin

Wed Feb 18, 2009

DVDfile.com

Shadows / Faces

Reviewing stand-alone titles like these are a mixed bag. From a cinephilic perspective, these two films are absolutely extraordinary and come with enormous and unreserved recommendations.

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Related Topix: Drama, Shadows, Faces, Opening Night

Tue Feb 17, 2009

DVD Verdict

Shadows: Criterion Collection

Our review of John Cassavetes: Five Films: Criterion Collection , published November 8th, 2004, is also available.

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Related Topix: Drama, Shadows, Cameras

Sun Feb 15, 2009

Daily Nebraskan

Actor Seymour Cassel talks family, films

Actor Seymour Cassel, who has appeared in such films as Wes Andersona s a oeRushmorea and a oeThe Life Aquatic with Steve Zissoua , screened his new film a oeReach For Mea , Saturday at the Mary Riepma Ross ...

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Related Topix: Drama, Shadows, Faces, Seymour Cassel, Black Entertainment, LeVar Burton, California

Thu Feb 12, 2009

DVD Verdict

Faces: Criterion Collection

Our review of John Cassavetes: Five Films: Criterion Collection , published November 8th, 2004, is also available.

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Related Topix: Faces, Drama, Shadows, John Marley, Lynn Carlin, Gena Rowlands

Wed Feb 11, 2009

FilmCritic

Faces

Early on in John Cassavetes' monumental Faces , a wildly drunk Gena Rowlands comments that John Marley "looks Freudian," even if he doesn't indulge in, nor even believes in, psychiatry.

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Related Topix: Faces, Drama, Shadows, Gena Rowlands, John Marley, Movies, Entertainment

Thu Jan 29, 2009

The Morning Call

Offbeat but worthwhile new DVDs

COOL CLASSIC The Sidney Poitier Collection 2009, Warner, unrated, $40 The highlight of this four-DVD set is ''Edge of the City'' , a surprisingly vivid look at the unlikely friendship between dockworkers in ...

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Related Topix: Film Noir, Drama, Edge of the City, Sidney Poitier, Kutztown, PA, Entertainment

Sat Jan 03, 2009

Guardian Unlimited

Film preview: The Directorspective: John Cassavetes, London

He died 20 years ago in February, but Cassavetes - the original indie film-maker - is as relevant as ever, if not more.

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Related Topix: Drama, Shadows, Gena Rowlands

Thu Dec 11, 2008

The Wire

The Fury

Robin possesses extremely powerful psychic talents and he's slated to attend the Paragon Institute, a private school in Chicago where he can hone his abilities.

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Related Topix: Horror, Thriller, The Fury, Kirk Douglas, Andrew Stevens, Carrie, Drama, Amy Irving, Movies, Entertainment

Sun Dec 07, 2008

Buffalo News

'M Squad' recalls the cheesiness of early TV

Forget this evening's premiere of TNT's "Leverage" for a minute. I'd rather write about "M Squad." Did any vintage TV show ever have cooler credits? I doubt it.

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Related Topix: Jazz, Count Basie, Johnny Staccato, Entertainment, Television, Thriller, Point Blank, Crime Movies, Drama, Action, Lee Marvin

Skyarts

John Cassavetes Season: Faces

Sky Arts pays homage to the man often hailed the father of independent cinema, whose maverick approach to filmmaking and refusal to submit to conventions of the Hollywood studio systems inspired generations of ...

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Related Topix: Shadows, Opening Night, Drama

Sat Dec 06, 2008

TheaterMania

Opening NightIvo van Hove's multimedia adaptation of John Cassavetes' ...

Director Ivo van Hove's most recent outings in New York, notably The Misanthrope and Hedda Gabler , have been volcanic explorations of how individuals reconcile themselves and their self-perceptions with the ...

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Related Topix: Drama, Opening Night, Theater, Arts

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