John Cassavetes

Features

John Cassavetes’ Faces: The Authenticity of Discomfort

By Chadwick Jenkins

The camera always gets too close in Cassavetes’ films. These aren’t close-ups; they are invasions of private space. [2 March 2009]

Gone and Not Forgotten: The PopMatters DVD Wish List

By Bill Gibron

A lot of good movies are still missing from DVD. Here is a list of 25 that PopMatters feels have been unceremoniously left to simply fade away. [24 January 2008]

Reviews

Husbands

By Stephen Snart

There’s much to appreciate here, but nothing that isn’t found in Cassavetes’ other films, which don’t have this level of self-involvement and incoherence. [18 August 2009]

Shadows (Criterion Collection)

By Ian Chant

Comfortable in its own small place, this John Cassavetes film is a picture of peoples’ lives that slides in and out of the story without sentimentality or spectacle. [18 March 2009]

Killing of a Chinese Bookie (Criterion Collection)

By Drew C. Miller

Like many Cassavetes films, this unfolds most interestingly in the crawl spaces of its narrative, lingering alongside the actors as they struggle in the ensuing vacuousness. [20 January 2009]

Big Trouble (1986)

By Chris Robé

Flimsy and frustrating, Big Trouble suggests that Cassavetes finally gave up on reality. [18 August 2003]

Gloria (1980)

By Chris Robé

Cassavetes himself was not happy with his script. [25 March 2003]