John Cassavetes News

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

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.

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.

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 .

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

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

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...