Ipcress Posted July 5, 2006 Share Posted July 5, 2006 I'm looking forward to watching Faces tonight. I don't know much about John Cassavetes but I've been doing research on him for the last few hours and the reviews I've read for Faces and A Woman Under The Influence have made me decide to put everything else aside for tonight and check them out. Feel free to make suggestions or post your opinions as well.. I think it'd be interesting. On a side note... Long live The Ipcress File (it is, once again, out of print) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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benwhowell Posted July 5, 2006 Share Posted July 5, 2006 I'm excited to see "Faces" and "A Woman Under The Influence" again. ("A Child Is Waiting" (with Judy Garland and Burt Lancaster) is on too...I guess the folks at TCM felt compelled to throw in one of his (more) mainstream movies...I would have prefered "Opening Night" or "Gloria" or "Love Streams.") Gena Rowlands is one of my favorite actresses. She was at her best working with her husband, John Cassavettes. She really knows how to merge comedy and tragedy in her performances... I read that Steven Spielberg worked as a production assistant for a couple of weeks on "Faces." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnpressman Posted July 5, 2006 Share Posted July 5, 2006 Gena Rowlands is one of my favorite actresses as well. Having first seen her in "A Woman Under The Influence" I was knocked out by her ability. More recently, I saw her in some earlier TV shows and was knocked out by her beauty as well. When my wife and I traveled to NY on our honeymoon in 1996, we were informed that the hotel had made a mistake and that the person next door to us requested both rooms. As we were changing rooms, the lady next door came out in her bathrobe to apologize. It was Ms. Rowlands in town for the premiere of "Unhook The Stars"! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marthanna Posted July 6, 2006 Share Posted July 6, 2006 > I'm looking forward to watching Faces tonight. > I don't know much about John Cassavetes but > I've been doing research on him for the last few > hours and the reviews I've read for Faces and > A Woman Under The Influence have made me > decide to put everything else aside for tonight and > check them out. > > Feel free to make suggestions or post your opinions > as well.. I think it'd be interesting. > > On a side note... > > Long live The Ipcress File (it is, once again, > out of print) I especially LOVE "Woman Under The Influence"...the entire film is flawless as far as I'm concerned. BTW...sorry to hear "The Iprcress File" is out of print..I've never seen it, but the previews I saw on TCM look great! I looked into buying "The Loved One" on DVD, but apparently it is only available on VHS on Amazon, used copies only...there are SO many great films out of print...ack! Martha Clark Austin, TX Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karlofffan Posted July 6, 2006 Share Posted July 6, 2006 It took three years to make _this_? This is a film of one of my parents' dinner parties ca. 1970. And I _liked_ "The Exterminating Angel" (note title). "Faces" could use some arms coming out of the wall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredCDobbs Posted July 6, 2006 Share Posted July 6, 2006 Hey, what are these b&w home movies they are showing on TCM right now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sugarpuss Posted July 6, 2006 Share Posted July 6, 2006 Marthanna, The Loved One IS on dvd. It was just released this past June with a bunch of other Warner/MGM cult-type movies (Petulia was another one--I mention that, because I love that movie and it was about damn time it was released!) I didn't get a chance to watch Faces--I recorded that one, but I did see the beginning. It seems to be one of those movies that I need to be in the mood to watch. However, I really loved A Woman Under the Influence and Gena Rowlands was amazing as Mable. So was Peter Falk. Honestly, if anyone should have been committed, I think it should have been him. I can see why, living in such an environment, with the kids and the husband and the worrying, she went mad. But that's just my opinion. I'm not familiar with Cassavetes' work, but I'm guessing his movies are the kind that are open to interpretation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deeanddaisy666 Posted July 6, 2006 Share Posted July 6, 2006 It seems to be one of those movies that I need to be in the mood to watch. Wow, I'll say. I wasn't, and kept switching back and forth. I remember seeing it long ago. Still impressive for its camera angles and raw performances. The woman playing the wife was very good, although I can't say I remember her in anything else ever again. John Marley, sorry to say, impresses me as the guy with the horse head in his bed. Seymour Cassel was also in a great many films. I get the impression Cassavetes was a tormented soul. But the ending....did they stay together? Lives of quiet desperation and all that, I imagine? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benwhowell Posted July 6, 2006 Share Posted July 6, 2006 Lynn Carlin received an Oscar nod (for supporting actress) for "Faces." She later starred in Milos Forman's first American movie, "Taking Off" from '71-playing Buck Henry's wife. She ended up doing a lot of stuff for television...including "The Waltons," the mother of Lance Kerwin on "James At 15" and the episode of "Charlie's Angels" (in prison)-with Sally Kirkland and (the fabulous) Shirley Stoler...from "The Honeymoon Killers" and Lina Wertmuller's "Seven Beauties." Maybe we should change the game to "the six degrees of Lynn Carlin..." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Ipcress Posted July 6, 2006 Author Share Posted July 6, 2006 Well, I watched Faces and I must say that it is a very good movie. Luckily, I was in the proper mood for it. I thought it lasted a little too long for the way the film is laid out but, overall, it is a great film. I liked the "home movie" feel to it quite a bit. I couldn't get halfway through A Woman Under The Influence. It seemed good for what it is... it's just not my thing. Or maybe it would have been better in black and white? I don't know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anonymous124 Posted July 7, 2006 Share Posted July 7, 2006 I have seen both and they are incredible films. I liked Woman under the Influence more, because you could draw a lot more conclusions from the characters. Both films seem to be shot in "real time" with very long shots that aren't always that steady. I love the scene in Woman where Rowlands tries to ask for the time on the street. Makes you wonder who's insane, Rowlands, or everyone else? In both films Cassavetes (I spelled his name right!...I think) also continually changes your impression of the characters. In the beginning of Woman , Peter Falk seems like the gentle, kind, and loyal one, while Rowlands seems like a bad mother, alcholic, disloyal. Then Cassavetes switches their roles, so by the end of the film we realize how they are only human. In Spike Lee's He Got Game this tactic was used, switching the roles of "nice guy" "bad guy" between the father and the son over and over so you can realize although they are both well meaning people they are also flawed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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