Being John Cassavetes

[rowgun500]

Ronald Reagan wasent good enough to be Mr .Cassavetes shoe shine boy.

[MrHooLee]

Tempest from 1982 is one hell of a neat movie...classic Cassavetes.

[SpasticAV]

That pretty much sums up Cassavetes. I think Spike Jones has nailed Cassavetes while using modern trickery, which is cool. The characters and the acting are the core and the special effects are used with in the story as opposed to being the story. I think one thing that Cassavetes wanna-bes forget is that Cassevetes was a part of the Hollywood system. He did it to get his films made. He is the patron saint of indy, but was very much a part of the system. Used it to his advantage. Smart guy.

[KUTVgroucho]

The most underrated filmmaker of the last fifty years. A director with a great respect for acting and story and not at all connected with turning the medium into a self-indulgent exercise of flashy transitions, arty framing, clever visual trickery etc, or everything that calls attention to the person behind the camera. Compare Cassavetes to the crop of modern directors who were raised on MTV, skateboarding, computers, and the WOW! School of filmmaking of Lucas and Spielberg.

[cassavelli]

I love John Cassavetes.. All these years later, I still love his movies, and surely remember them! I wish he was still around creating them today

[Eric68B]

this man is pure genius

[hippiegirl58]

Love John Cassavetes. Glad to see his tv series Johnny Staccato being released in October.

[Logos87X]

Granted, I've never seen the film in this clip, but I love how they're arguing about spaghetti and the guy gets up and (randomly?) smacks the woman across the face. I LOL'd for about a minute.

[dogstarman1]

i think its an an odd thing to do but thats also the reason that i kind of liked it. people should play around and mess with things. as long as its a tribute to my favorite director i'll support it.

[luckywood]

why would you put the audio of Woman on the picture from the Killers, it's very confusing

[SpasticAV]

That's the point! Cassavetes bucked the system but he had to be part of the system to do it. It's a Mash Up of the contrasts in his career.

[mojoworks111]

Very well done. I really like it. This year I really got into Cassavetes` films. Before that I only knew him as an actor. I saw "A Woman under the Influence" years ago on TV and hated it. It was exactly as Cassavetes described it. I simply didn`t get it - but I never forgot it. I was still too influenced by Hollywood escapism movies. Then I saw all of Cassavetes` films and opened myself to them - and it literally changed my life. What an artist! What a man!

[StreebosVault]

Filmmakers should be aware that they don't know anything.

Brilliant.

[MattAyroli]

i dont get what youy did there with a woman under the influence and the killers. please, explain.

[SpasticAV]

The dialogue is audio from A Woman Under The Influence. The picture is from the Killers. I tried to match them up as best I could.

[SpasticAV]

The one & only.

[vinto34]

is that ronald reagan at 0.42?

[tastybrownies]

@vinto34

Well, I think he was an actor before he was president, so that's probably him.

"Ronald Reagan, the actor"?

Doc Brown

[kitefancy]

Brilliant..! True Master of words and Film..of Life in General

[sliver321123]

That wasn't "A Woman Under the Influence", that was "The Killers". At least the video was. I don't know about the audio, or where the hell thats from.

[doclanders]

Odd. Very odd. But if I apprehend the meaning correctly -- rather clever.

[calvin2creep]

Peter Falk(friend&actor) about Cassavetes : "He was the most fervent man I ever met, and he didn't have a copy-cat bone in his body"

[MattieCooper]

WOW! Wonderful clip!

[sbrownie]

yes...he was THE BEST, THE BRIGHTEST,THE INSPIRATION FOR MANY WHO ARE DEEMED 'GIFTED' TODAY...

[7beers]

He reminds me a bit of Pacino.

[sbrownie]

you probably mean the opposite...JC was the ORIGINAL...but yes, resemblance is there

[sitnspin]

Everyone correcting the guy who made this is a complete idiot. It's the audio from 'Woman', synched really artfully with 'The Killers.' It's really clever, and congrats for failing to grasp that. Morons. "Duh... I hate to have to correct you, but..."

[SabaFilms]

Nice vid. By the way, that footage of Cassavetes, Ronald Reagan, and Angie Dickinson is from "The Killers" (the 1964 version). Cheers.

[HellsDonutHouse]

Clearly someone's being cheeky with a wee mashup -- the video in the clip is from "The Killers," but the audio is from "Woman." Also, the Philip Glass music isn't in the original interview. Class project?

[rommsart]

Absolute Genius! ... should make more films

[sbrownie]

uh...he's been DEAD for a WHILE now

[Omathousand]

well, gotta agree with HOOG 'cause, for one thing: Cassavetes isn't in "a woman under the influence"...

and yeah, he was a real genius, there's a great documentary, which is more "conversations" with him by the time he was making Faces and that has been done by André S. Labarthe. awesome piece of work, and you get really close to the guy and to how he worked and thought.

[PigsCantFly]

Nice interview footage, where's it from?

[SpasticAV]

Found it on the net. This guy was brilliant. Knew how to play the game. Did what he had to do to get his movies made.

[HellsDonutHouse]

It's from "I'm Almost Not Crazy," Michael Ventura's doc on the making of "Love Streams."

[SpasticAV]

Huh?

[HOOG]

sorry dude, that wasn't a clip from woman under the influence.

[SpasticAV]

Audio is from Woman Under The Influence.

[caramatt]

Audio is from Koyaanisqatsi's soundtrack by Philip Glass

[SpasticAV]

The music is yes, but the audio is from Woman Under The Influence.