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Synopsis: A long look at John Cassavetes's films, life (1929-1989), and exploration of how people love. The documentary is composed of Cassavetes's words spoken by an off-screen narrator, clips from his films, photos and clips of him on and off the set, and family, friends, and colleagues talking about his films and what it was like to work with him. The movie explores his focus on emotion, the way he drew out actors, his collaborative process, his energy and joie de vivre, his serious purposes, and the meaning and lasting impact of his work: how adults behave, interact, and seek love rather than how a plot works out.
Director(s): Charles Kiselyak
Production: Lagniappe
 
IMDB:
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Year:
2000
200 min
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That's all I'm interested in

love-and the lack of it.

My father came over to America

when he was 11 years old.

He was born in Piraeus, Greece...

and he heard about this country when

a missionary came through town one day...

saying there was

brotherhood in America.

That if you wanted to work and learn...

the American people would open

their arms and hearts to you.

My parents allowed their two sons

to be individuals.

My family was

a wild and wonderful place...

with lots of friends and neighbors

visiting and talking loud and eating loud.

And nobody telling their children

to be quiet or putting them down.

When we had money,

we went to the movies.

When we didn't, we sat around

the kitchen table and told stories.

I was a totally uninterested student

in high school.

I didn't want to

go to college because...

college in the '50s

was just a way of getting a diploma.

I hitchhiked down to Florida

for a few weeks, and when I got back home...

I bumped into some friends of mine-

funny, funny guys.

"Hey,John, wejust signed up...

"at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts

to become actors, man.

Come with us.

The school's packed with girls. "

I'd get up on stage and shout.

A couple of the teachers liked that

because it showed a lot of enthusiasm.

For a long time, that's all I thought acting

was about- to show a lot of emotion.

I attended the academy for a year

and then spent two years making the rounds.

There's something about the motivation

of fear that makes you work terribly hard.

But as an actor,you don't get the freedom

to function the way you'd like to.

I know I never got the lines I wanted

under other directors.

I wanted to direct...

to find out everything I'm capable of

and to make the most of it...

whether people like it or not.

I believe that when you're young...

you should go to all the places

you're uncomfortable in and prove yourself.

Because someday you're gonna

have to prove yourself.

When I saw her, that was it.

I said, "That's the girl I'm gonna marry. "

Well, it was

a hard struggle to convince her.

I kept Gena under constant scrutiny.

I was enormouslyjealous,

filled with suspicions about other men...

and with the terror

that those suspicions might be correct.

She wouldn't put up with that,

and finally I relaxed.

In the beginning of our marriage,

I made a bargain.

Gena would fight me to the bitter end,

and I would fight her to the bitter end.

And the bargain never has been broken.

Together we lead a magnificent,

unassembled, emotional and undisciplined life.

I can't think of anyone with whom

I would rather argue or love than my wife.

We fight and argue and kill each other off

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Submitted on August 05, 2018

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