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Originally Posted by ProfPacker
recently rewatched this on you tube. Gena Rowlands has always been one of my favorite actresses (even though she seems sometimes like she is blowing bubbles when she talk). But Cassevettes is a brillant director.
now I am thinking about late 60's films
Bergmann
Cassevettes
D.H. Lawrence: the Fox
2001 space odessey
and many more
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I love Cassavetes as an actor and director (Woman Under the Influence, Killing of a Chinese Bookie) and Gena Rowlands is in a class all her own.
More than once he mortgaged his home to finance his films (!) now that's an independent filmmaker.
Do you remember him in the television show,
Johnny Staccato? Had a nice soundtrack. Here's an episode:
And here's one of his films at Netflix:
Minnie and Moskowitz