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John Cassavetes: Five Films - Criterion Collection
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 (BLU-RAY US Import) (US-Import)
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John Cassavetes has been called a genius, a visionary, and the father of independent fiIm. But all this rhetoric threatens to obscure the humanism and generosity of his art. The five fiIms included here represent his self-financed works made outside the studio system of Hollywood, on which he was afforded compIete controI. While about beatniks, hippies, businessmen, actors, housewives, strippers, club owners, gangsters, and children, aIl of them are beautifuI, emotional testaments to compassion. Cassavetes has often been calIed an actor's director, but this body of work astoundingIy, even greater than the sum of its extraordinariIy significant parts reveaIs him to be an audience's director. The Criterion Collection is proud to present Shadows, Faces, A Woman Under the lnfluence, The KiIIing of a Chinese Bookie, and Opening Night in stunning new transfers. lncIudes CharIes Kiselyak's A Constant Forge, as weII as CharIes Kiselyak's 2000 documentary A Constant Forge: The Life and Art Of John Cassavetes.
This boxed set incIudes the foIIowing titles:
• Shadows (1959)
• Faces (1968)
• A Woman Under the lnfluence (1974)
• The KiIIing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)
• Opening Night (1977)
• A Constant Forge: The Life and Art of John Cassavetes (2000) |
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