John Cassavetes

‘The Killing of a Chinese Bookie’: Turning Entertainment into Personal Statement

  May 10, 2023   By Sven Mikulec   We did 'The Killing of a Chinese Bookie' just as an…

11 months ago

‘A Woman Under the Influence’: Cassavetes’ Intense and Emotionally Exhausting Slice of Life

  By Sven Mikulec When Gena Rowlands, his wife, expressed her interest in appearing in a play about the difficulties…

3 years ago

Slaughterhouse Twelve: Robert Aldrich’s ‘The Dirty Dozen’

  By Tim Pelan In the mid-1960s, director Robert Aldrich was coming up for air after the thick stew melodramas…

5 years ago

BBC Omnibus: Documentary profiles of Cassavetes, Lumet, Altman, Tarantino, Ray

Omnibus was an arts-based BBC television documentary series, broadcast mainly on BBC One in the United Kingdom. It ran from 1967…

9 years ago

John Cassavetes – the Man and His Work

In 1983, during the production of John Cassavetes’s Love Streams, journalist Michael Ventura was hired by Cannon Films executive Menahem…

10 years ago