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John Cassavetes

August 2024

  • Gena Rowlands in Gloria directed by John Cassavetes in 1980

    Gena Rowlands – a life in pictures

  • FILE: Gena RGena Rowlands in 1968. In her many roles she managed to lace tenderness with grit.owlands Dies, Age 94 Gena Rowlands<br>FILE: Gena Rowlands, legend of independent film and star of "The Notebook" and "A Woman Under The Influence" has died at the age of 94. American actress Gena Rowlands, 14th October 1968. (Photo by P. Shirley/Daily Express/Getty Images)

    Gena Rowlands obituary

  • Superbly intelligent … Gena Rowlands in Opening Night.

    Gena Rowlands: the fiercest, most incandescent star of US indie cinema

  • Actor Gena Rowlands at the Academy Awards in 2016

    Gena Rowlands, star of A Woman Under the Influence and Gloria, dies at 94

June 2024

  • Gena Rowlands

    The Notebook actor Gena Rowlands has Alzheimer’s disease, says son

    Rowlands, 94, who played an Alzheimer’s patient in son’s 2004 film, is in ‘full dementia’, says Nick Cassavetes

May 2024

  • Phedon Papamichael on the set of Downsizing in 2017.

    ‘We were the magicians’: cinematographer Phedon Papamichael on 40 years of film-making

  • Sheridan Smith and Rufus Wainwright

    Rufus Wainwright blames UK’s ‘narrow outlook’ after Brexit for Opening Night’s flop

March 2024

  • EMBARGOED UNTIL 1AM WEDS MARCH 27 2024.. OPENING NIGHT. Sheridan Smith (Myrtle). Photo Jan Versweyveld (3)

    Opening Night review – Sheridan Smith’s boozy meltdown shakes up musical theatre

    Smith plays a Broadway star in the midst of a mental crisis in Ivo van Hove and Rufus Wainwright’s glittering and extravagantly original musical adaptation of the Cassavetes film

November 2023

  • ‘An intense marriage of film and stage’ … Sheridan Smith will star in Opening Night.

    Sheridan Smith to star in Rufus Wainwright musical Opening Night

    Ivo van Hove will direct the West End production based on John Cassavetes’ 1977 film about theatre

August 2023

  • SHADOWS (US 1959) LION INTERNATIONAL LELIA GOLDONI centre Picture from the Ronald Grant Archive

    Lelia Goldoni obituary

    Actor who starred in John Cassavetes’s Shadows and gave Michael Caine the plans for the heist in The Italian Job

July 2023

  • Lelia Goldoni in Shadows (US 1959.

    Lelia Goldoni, star of John Cassavetes’ Shadows, dies aged 86

    Italian American actor won herself iconic status with the 1959 film where she played a woman ‘passing’ as white

January 2022

  • Ossessione

    Guy Lodge's streaming and DVDs
    Streaming: Mubi’s First Films season and other essential director debuts

    Red Road, Citizen Kane, Reservoir Dogs… some debut features feel like anything but

December 2021

  • Gaite Jansen and Gijs Scholten van Aschat in After the Rehearsal, directed by Ivo van Hove, at the Barbican theatre, London, in 2017.

    All About Theatre About Film: Ivo van Hove’s big-screen obsessions in focus

    Europe’s in-demand theatre director is also an avid cinephile. A dizzying exhibition joins the dots between his adaptations of arthouse movies – by Antonioni, Bergman, Cassavetes and others – staged with designer Jan Versweyveld

January 2021

  • Gena Rowlands in Opening Night.

    The stage on screen
    Opening Night: John Cassavetes' unromantic ode to theatre is stunning

    Gena Rowlands plays an actor frustrated with her character in a backstage drama that kicks off our series on the ways cinema depicts theatre

September 2020

  • ... from Against Time by Huma Bhabha

    Huma Bhabha/Christina Ramberg review – terrifying totems eye a crumbling world

    Bhabha’s eerie monuments create a creeping unease, while a group show riffs on female dress from a wooden skirt to a ring for the Statue of Liberty

April 2019

  • Seymour Cassel in 2000. He never lost his easy grin, always giving the impression that he was sharing a joke with himself.

    Seymour Cassel obituary

    American actor closely associated with the directors John Cassavetes and Wes Anderson

June 2018

  • Peter Falk and John Cassavetes in Mikey and Nicky.

    Mikey and Nicky review – a neglected gem of 70s cinema

    John Cassavetes and Peter Falk are at the top of their game in Elaine May’s tangy, talky classic about mobster lowlife

October 2015

  • Boris Karloff as the monster in James Whale's 1931 Frankenstein.

    Cinema now
    Sean Baker interview: ‘James Whale’s Frankenstein made me want to become a director’

    The writer/director of Tangerine on cinematic inspiration at the age of six

November 2013

  • THE FURY

    Philip French's classic DVD
    The Fury

    Brian De Palma's 1978 spy thriller/sci-fi hybrid owes much to Alfred Hitchcock, writes Philip French

October 2013

  • The Shining

    Film blog
    Top 10 horror movies

    Time to bring the fear - from Nosferatu to The Shining, here's what the Guardian and Observer's critics have picked as the scariest films ever made

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