John Cassavetes: To Risk Everything to Express It All (Movie)
1996 / Director: Rudolf Mestdagh / Avg Rating: 0 out of 10
It’s tempting, when praising Cassavetes’s films, to resort to generalizations about the director’s admirable intentions; descriptions like “original,” “raw,” and “human,” while certainly true, need to be expanded upon in order to get at what makes Cassavetes’s work special, and the film’s interview subjects sometimes fall into the trap of leaving things at the level of simplification. But for those new to the director’s films, there’s still some good material here: the commentary from Cassavetes mainstays Ben Gazzara, Gena Rowlands, Al Ruban, Seymour Cassel, and (especially) Peter Falk is predictably engaging, and the selected footage from formative early works like Shadows and Faces is revealing of a filmmaker in the process of discovering his voice.
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Seymour Cassel...
Ben Gazzara...
Peter Falk...Himself
Gena Rowlands... - Anything for John (1993) (Movie) (4)
Seymour Cassel...
Peter Falk...
Ben Gazzara...
Gena Rowlands...
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Gena Rowlands...Myrtle Gordon
Ben Gazzara...Manny Victor
Seymour Cassel...Himself (uncredited)
Peter Falk...Himself (uncredited)
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Peter Falk...Himself
Ben Gazzara...Himself
Seymour Cassel...Himself
- Husbands (1970) (Movie) (3)
Ben Gazzara...Harry
Peter Falk...Archie Black
Gena Rowlands...Party Guest
- A Woman Under the Influence (1974) (Movie) (2)
Peter Falk...Nick Longhetti
Gena Rowlands...Mabel Longhetti
- An Early Frost (1985) (Movie) (2)
Gena Rowlands...Katherine Pierson
Ben Gazzara...Nick Pierson
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Peter Falk...
Gena Rowlands...
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Ben Gazzara...Self
Gena Rowlands...Self
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Ben Gazzara...Self
Gena Rowlands...Self
- Broken Kingdom (2012) (Movie) (2)
Seymour Cassel...Clayton
Seymour Cassel...Nina
- Face of a Stranger (1991) (Movie) (2)
Gena Rowlands...Pat Foster
Seymour Cassel...Ralph
- Faces (2011) (Movie) (2)
Seymour Cassel...
Gena Rowlands...
- Faces (1968) (Movie) (2)
Gena Rowlands...Jeannie Rapp
Seymour Cassel...Chet
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Gena Rowlands...Virginia Miller
Ben Gazzara...Nick
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Gena Rowlands...Self
Seymour Cassel...Self
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Ben Gazzara...Self
Anthony Quinn...Self - Love Streams (1984) (Movie) (2)
Gena Rowlands...Sarah Lawson
Seymour Cassel...Jack Lawson
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Peter Falk...Charlie Adamo
Gena Rowlands...Rosemary Scott
- Making Faces (2004) (Movie) (2)
Gena Rowlands...
Seymour Cassel...
- Minnie and Moskowitz (1971) (Movie) (2)
Gena Rowlands...Minnie Moore
Seymour Cassel...Seymour Moskowitz
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Anthony Quinn...Don Giuseppe 'Joe the Boss' Masseria
Seymour Cassel...Father Bonotto
- Murder, Inc. (1960) (Movie) (2)
Peter Falk...Abe Reles
Seymour Cassel...Teenager (uncredited)
- Night of 100 Stars (1982) (Movie) (2)
Peter Falk...
Anthony Quinn...
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Ben Gazzara...Charlie Duke
Gena Rowlands...Francie Pomerantz
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Ben Gazzara...Ben (Quartier Latin)
Gena Rowlands...Gena (Quartier Latin)
- Shadows (1959) (Movie) (2)
Seymour Cassel...Al (uncredited)
Gena Rowlands...Woman in Nightclub Audience (uncredited)
- The Brink's Job (1978) (Movie) (2)
Peter Falk...Tony Pino
Gena Rowlands...Mary Pino
- The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976) (Movie) (2)
Ben Gazzara...Cosmo Vittelli
Seymour Cassel...Mort Weil
