John Cassavetes News

If American independent cinema could be said to have a birthday, Nov. 11 is as good a date to celebrate as any.

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.

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

"Staccato" only lasted one season--1959-- and "Checkmate" ran from 1960-1962. Both shows were about detectives and were influential despite their relatively short runs.

The patriarch of Hollywood's Berg family, DICK BERG, has died after a fall at his home in Los Angeles.

Every American filmmaker who ever told the Hollywood studios to stick it in their ear is a spiritual descendent of John Cassavetes.

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

Peter , in the striped shirt, befriends Sidney in a comic look at male friendship, "I Love You, Man." A high-school teacher tries to connect with students at an inner-city Paris school in the award-winning French film "The Class." "The Class" provides a vibrant and realistic look at teaching in the 21st century.

Beeswax Directed by Andrew Bujalski Runtime: 100 min. Husbands Directed by John Cassavetes AUDIENCES MUST DO half Andrew Bujalski's work for him in Beeswax, the mumblecore director's Texas-set film.

IT'S 1963 as the third season of "Mad Men" on AMC gets under way next Sunday night.

Beeswax Directed by Andrew Bujalski Runtime: 100 min. Husbands Directed by John Cassavetes AUDIENCES MUST DO half Andrew Bujalski's work for him in Beeswax, the mumblecore director's Texas-set film.

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 .

Novato residents couldn't define pornography, but they knew they didn't want anyone else seeing it 25 years ago this week.

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