#cassavetes

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john cassavetes on the lack of communication between people

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Love Streams 1984

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JOHN CASSAVETES | MIKEY AND NICKY (1976) DIR. BY ELAINE MAY

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“You can defeat fear through humor, through pain, through honesty, bravery, intuition and through love in the truest sense.“ John Cassavetes 

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(via Gena Rowlands, Actress Who Bought Raw Drama to Her Roles, Dies at 94 - The New York Times)

Ms. Rowlands in the 1980 film “Gloria,” directed by Mr. Cassavetes, in which she starred as a gangster’s moll on the run with an orphaned boy.

Gena Rowlands, the intense, elegant dramatic actress who, often in collaboration with her husband, John Cassavetes, starred in a series of introspective independent films, has died. She was 94.

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Les personnages de Cassavetes, comme ceux de Dostoïevski, vivent cette contradiction jusqu’au bout, ils sont « excessifs », ils parlent tout le temps, ils explorent par la parole toutes les possibilités, amoureux ou ivres, heureux, désespérés ou inquiets, ils ont les comportements les plus extrêmes, et en même temps ils sont conscients, même à leur insu, qu’une certaine limite, si elle est dépassée, peut les renvoyer à la « vraie » folie, à une parole qui tourne à vide. Quelque chose plane qui peut à tout moment ruiner la parole. Cela peut être le meurtre. Le meurtre isole, radicalement. Raskolnikov en fait l’expérience, quand il a le pressentiment qu’il pourrait ne plus jamais parler à personne. Cosmo aussi, quand meurtrier et blessé, il va voir la mère de son amie noire, il lui parle de n’importe quoi – en fait : de son père –, et elle le renvoie, elle ne veut pas l’écouter. Quand l’impossible est accompli, on ne peut que parler « autour ». « Il n’y a plus de rapport », comme dit Eliot, « there isn’t any joint ». Leslie Kaplan, Les Outils, P.O.L, 2003

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Ethel Cain: 'if yall haven’t picked up on it yet, i am crazy'

John Cassavetes: "she doesn’t know how to relate to others. In this sense, she’s like all of us. I myself am half crazy." - A Woman Under the Influence, Gena Rowlands

Michel Ciment to John Cassavetes:

"This is the first of your films in which one of your characters exhibits mental illness. Did this present any particular challenges in portraying it?"

John Cassavetes:

"Listen: I myself am half crazy. And I think everyone is on the edge of madness but doesn’t want to admit it and pretends that it’s the other person who’s wrong, that we hold the truth. I firmly believe that any woman who loves her husband and has been married for a while doesn’t know where to invest her emotions, and that this can drive her to madness. Some find outlets, deciding to be more independent, for example. This particular woman intensely believes that when you’re a good wife, there’s something reciprocal that must happen, but she doesn’t know what. She’s not truly crazy, but frustrated beyond what one can imagine. She doesn’t know what to do and, above all, she’s emotionally and socially inept. Everything she does is an expression of her individuality, but she doesn’t know how to relate to others. In this sense, she’s like all of us." – October 1975 (text translated from French)

VIDEO: Cassavetes Remix by Vinyl SA | Remington (A Woman Under the Influence)

Ethel Cain. The Girl with the Hook Tattoo ♡