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5 days ago · The Stadium doesn’t feature in Scorsese’s Raging Bull, the story of middleweight boxing champion Jake La Motta and his running battle with local mobsters, but towards the end of his career the ‘Bronx Bull’ did fight there. Cassavetes’ and Scorsese’s origins as ethnic New Yorkers are part of the mythology of their film-making.
1 day ago · August 23, 2023. 7:30pm PT. Added to the National Film Registry in 1990. John Cassavetes’s seventh feature is a heartbreaking portrayal of a frustrated housewife (Gena Rowlands) losing grasp on reality, making it an urgent response to contemporaneous issues of second wave feminism.
2 days ago · While John Cassavetes is revered for his contributions to American indies, Gena Rowlands isn’t always thanked in the same breath, despite standing side-by-side with him throughout his career and ...
1 day ago · Finding precedent for Cassavetes' work in the long-standing American Romantic tradition of Walt Whitman, Emerson, William James, John Dewey and others, Carney's book gives film its proper due as the greatest 20th century artform.
4 days ago · Val Kilmer, Tommy Lee Jones and Joel Schumacher. In 1996, Batman Forever director Joel Schumacher called out two of the stars of the film, neither of whom was invited back for his sequel, Batman ...
3 days ago · Lars von Trier wears his obsessions on his sleeve. So did Alfred Hitchcock. So did John Cassavetes, Chantal Akerman, Ingmar Bergman. These directors are obsessed with women, and they made art out of it. Lipsky is equally obsessed but can't manage the art part of it.
5 days ago · California mobster Charlie Adamo (Peter Falk) pulls strings to get his old lieutenant, Hank McCain (John Cassavetes), out of the prison where he's spent 12 years for armed robbery.
