100 Faces Of John Cassavetes - A Tribute

[laneese1970]

I had forgotten how much I love his work! Thank you for posting!

[duesenbergmj]

does anyone know what pushed him into drinking? it sure changed his face toward the end.....some people just burn too brightly.

[toompea]

great tribute. really. it made me wanna know more about his work. could you please tell me the name of the song? thanx again!

[FreedomRightsFilms]

The most profound mash-up on YouTube. Beautiful video for a beautiful spirit. Thanks a lot for making this.

[valentinolover70]

Fantastic tribute. Thanx so much.

[djunius]

Very nicely done. Cassavetes is also a hero of mine.

[alexthe1cat]

Please pay NO ATTENTION to the empty-headed, pretentious geeks' comments that somehow got mixed in with the more enlightened ones.

You did a fine job celebrating & sharing the life of a gentle & often world & self-beaten down man-- amazingly filled with empathy for all people, like Christ. Watching your dedication reminds me of DeNiro's perfect capturing of Jake LaMatta throughout Raging Bull: raw & still running bloody with emotions, painful and blessing years afterthefact. Bella!

[sale3672]

Fenomenalno! Bravo Pero.

[AlexandrosMolfesis]

BRAVO !!! Amazing work and talent....Thanks

[classics4life]

The greatest aspect of this video is how Bo Harwood's "Gena" aka "The Love Theme" from "A Woman Under the Influence" was constructed into an entire 7:55 piece!

[marcepaiva]

what is the name of this song????, please I want to learn to play this with my 87 old grandma.

[Logos87X]

I've looked for this piano music everywhere and CANNOT find it. Argh!

[grinchybanana]

This is simply superb. JC changed my life! I love this song but I like the music in Bookie the most.

[balkanigerle]

Thank You for this great video! I'm livin' in Europe, but when I see these films, I think I can understand your culture and soul. For me - this is America (I know this is not the truth)... Too late blues with Bobby Darin and Seymour Cassel, or A child is waiting with Burt Lancester, Judy Garland and Gena is also amazing films! A few mounth ago I've read Ray Carney's book again, there's some important think about Cassavetes. And you choose the music very sensitivly of this video! THANKX!

[BlockwalkerFilms]

I can't tell you how many times i've come back to watch this. Thank you so much.

[Icarois1]

Αυτό το Παλικάρι, ο John Cassavettes, όπως και ο Beckett/Burroughs/Ballard/Bern­hard/Bababeuys, α, τι ωραία γράμματα που ήξεραν!

[jamesbtruax]

BRAVO on this piece... When I was in film school, about half way through I just started turning in all essays I could on John Cassavetes, one professor noted next to the grade, "Good. You've found J.C." Thanks for cutting this piece together.

[kaori0603]

amazing music!

[Soupermouse]

What's the name of this piano piece? It's beautiful. What movie is it from? Opening night?

[sabinabarbara]

adorabile,grazie

[andreabruschi]

thanks for this..john il numero uno..

[hugoMunch]

The name of that music piece? What film is that music from? I've only seen Husbands and The Opening Night.

Ta

[thisgunforhire05]

You need to do yourself a favor and go buy "A Woman Under the Influence" immediately -- no hesitation. The music you are hearing is from the aforementioned Cassavetes film.

[wwjdCRABS]

Thank you for this.

[wwjdCRABS]

Thank you for this.

[BlockwalkerFilms]

fantastic.

[holypaper]

Great video! People like Cassavetes make me proud to be alive.

[goodfella7885]

So beautiful...John was about holding a mirror to nature. I love this video and I thank you for creating it

[kidcalabria]

Hey, thank you so much for making & posting this. I have always been a fan of Cassavetes, and Peter Falk, Ben Gazzara & Gena Rowlands. After trying for over a year, finally I found some Johnny Staccato bits on YT, although the Columbo episode Etude In Black is gone... great job, Cassavetes was a great actor & film-maker, and also a great man...

[DirtyPass]

Why the depressing bullshit piano music? Cassavettes was about life and truth before being boxed into a concept, wether a youtube clip, a film or a fucking documentary. He was so much bigger and more of a genius than these docs manipulate for whatever stupid reason

[PeraShsh]

"the depressing bullshit piano music" was taken from his film. you really missed the point there...

none can put John Cassavetes into a box. most of the documentaries about him arent that good, most. there are a couple of great ones on him though... some excellent books...

and the best suggestion is to just watch his films. that is what is most important if you want to understand him

[bradbores]

seriously if you find this piano music depressing you must not be listening with your ears, just a jaded mind. It beats to the joys and pains of life that Cassavettes embraced. Obviously so since it music from his films. This video captures the life and truth that cassavettes was all about. I watch this video any time I need inspiration. Thank you Perashsh

[Skatecareerheaven]

@PeraShsh @PeraShsh I love that most people who claim to like John are such phonies. "Why the depressing bullshit piano music? " People are so full of it. IT'S HIS MUSIC! haha.

[msbirdy66]

@PeraShsh please can you tell me where do you find the music ? is there any CD of it ? thanks for your answer. L.

[marcepaiva]

brando and want to fight for something really stupid but he´s laughing in his mind for all of this. james dean is smockin on the roof, and roberto benigni is falling in love with the house maid, i dont know, the stmosphere is sounding beta band and yo la tengo, i god is loving all of that.

sorry of mi language. all my life i talk and write spanish. i wanna right now take my backpack and go to the rute just to see the moon listen nick drake, and reading a lines of borges...

[PeraShsh]

i can safely say we have a lot of the same influences running around in our brains...

[marcepaiva]

tom waits JAck kerouac jim jarmusch.

tarkovski John Cassavetes, his music, his scenes, his way of made a message its a way of too many artist...i dont know im from argentina (south america people), and I am only twenty 20 years old, i am become crazy for all these guys and his ways of life and tell and teach. i imagine a situation dreamin eating something, drinking in a night with bob dylan, john cassavetes tell us somethin really intersting, and suddenly cames

[bannedsays]

grazie

[AnneFrederick7]

Nice job, absolutely fantastic, I love it!

[scottnownow]

Thismontage is really wonderful. You've done a beautiful job. My heartfelt thanks and best wishes to all the others who've commented.

[Fritz3010]

I love John, Gena, Peter, Ben, Seymour..and all characters in Johns cinema universum.

Does anybody know the song at the end of Minie and Moskowitz?.................

[PeraShsh]

you mean whose it is ???

[Fritz3010]

Who sing the song? Who scored it?......at end of Minie and Moskowitz....

[PeraShsh]

the film is not with me atm...

ill look it up... and flip through some books when i get the time to see.. i remember something vaguely about it..

[mauvetys]

at 2:28 is a great idea! Peter Falks's role and the parallel with Cassavets with Gena R.

[tubeeorrnottubee]

This is so beautiful. What a man..

He was the closest thing to the realness, the breath, the life, and the pulse of European films that America ever had. Sheer genius~ Irreplaceable genius!

Thank you so much for this fantastic look the man, and his magic works of true art. Fantastic tribute. *****

[229095]

This is nothing short of incredible, and I'm certain Chuck Workman (who does the montages for the Academy Awards) would be rather amazed himself. And there is nothing that I can say here that the comment below, from Golightly123 didn't say with any more beauty and grace.

[Golightly123]

it causes me such moving bittersweet feelings to get to read these comments by others who were also deeply affected by the great great great gift that cassavetes art was to the world .The only thing more rare in my life than finding another cassavetes fan would be another cassavetes. It always so sad & aggravating to me when I imagine how un(der)- appreciated his art has been . I LOVE  getting to read all this deep , genuine engagement with his work . Thank you so much for making this tribute.

[LudusTonalis]

great! so where did you take the music from?

[PeraShsh]

it is music from "A Woman Under The Influence" Bo Harwoods... directly from the movie... it was tough to make it seem like a continuous piece of music...

[sini8080]

What is the name of the score you used?

[PeraShsh]

from the movie... as much as i know thats gena rowlands singing... fantastic music... but the 7+minute piece that you hear here is actually made from 2 short snippets that are maybe 30-40 sec in total cut and put together to seem like one piece of music... a tough one but i didnt want to take an easy way out and put something on it that doesnt have anything to do with Cassavetes....and the thing that made it more difficult is that Cassavetes wasnt a fan of transcendental music

[sini8080]

Thanks for replying. I saw your reply from page 3 of the comments after I posted but my comment was not in the list so assumed I had not submitted properly. The music is really well done. I had this video on continuous play when I first heard it and never could have thought it was anything but a complete, well composed, song.

I am actually about to watch "A Woman Under The Influence" in a few minutes so will pay special attention.

[PeraShsh]

thank you for your comment

[nosyrev]

Pure genius! Thanks, Perashsh, for your appreciation of the movie master! Many many thanks!

[sucramnipp]

great stuff. really good work.

[Kostasmeseos]

The Tempest.... like a theatre play- but a motion picture... fantastic.

Peace

out...

[Quartermaine4Ever]

His films are awesome. He is missed.

[minutegongcoughs]

Best film maker of modern times. With Gena Rowlands and Peter Falk he could make a film of quality on minimal budget and still blow your head off. Not many came close to John.

[DARLINGNIKKIXYZ]

great!

[rechita]

the best connoiseur of the mankind!!!!

he´s still alive!

[globeisnotpyramid]

One of the greatest filmmakers and humans ever!

[dunlaoghaire]

He really was amazing... nice post, thnx.

[felderstein]

sound to suffer from its beauty. thanks for posting this little piece of magic.

[InesFloresM85]

qué bonito!

[JohnMoseley]

Cassavetes is the tops and this is nicely done. Nice music too.

I'm I just imagining things, or is that Husbands at the start? Where'd you get it? It's rarer than stake tartar.

[PigsCantFly]

wow this is really great, shows how important just the way people behave is in his films. and see how none of the many shots here (is it exactly 100?) repeat themselves? each one is so different and beautiful, just not hollywood-beautiful

[PeraShsh]

as i counted there is 100 shots of Cassavetes... but i wouldn't be surprised if i missed some... i only counted the closer shots...

thank you all for your wonderful comments

[jbyanez]

Beautiful...Edited with real appreciation for JC's genius.

[calvin2creep]

i remember i first saw him on a late night on TCM , in "Dirty Dozen" and i was thinking to myself .. man who is this guy.. years later there was a show ,again on tCM , and there were saying things like that film (dirty dozen) can't be done in our days cuz there aren't men to suit those roles back then. And BAM the image of cassavetes with his hard look and his hardened maverick personna flashes trough my head and i go.. yea.. i gotta find out more about this guy..

[kenrubes]

pretty awesome job, here.

[ehansen3]

What is the music playing?? it's as beautiful as the films John left us with, genius!!

[PeraShsh]

the music is 2 small fragments of about 15secs ... bo hardwoods music from a woman under the influence.. i think its gena rowlands thats singing.. it was very tough to edit those 2 pieces and make it into a 7minute seamless piece of music...

i wanted to only use music from Cassaveteses films to leave it as authentic as i could... and the only one i thought was appropriate was this one...

[allansfriend]

You must just LOVE editing so much...I can see why.

~Tammi~

(again)

[allansfriend]

Damn, this is BEAUTIFUL! One of the best on YouTube.

Thanx for sharing.

~Tammi~

[sbrownie]

bravo!...genius indeed...JOHN WAS/IS THE ABSOLUTE!...i tell people this all the time...i even had a MAJOR CRUSH on him as a child (and i'm 41!...sssshhhh...don't go there!)...and as i got older, i realised it's his INTELLIGENCE AND CHARISMA THAT GOT TO ME...miss him dearly...but thank you for the memories

p.s. sounds like Thom Yorke 'singing'...

[linaofilms]

That laugh got me at the end. =)

From someone whose life was also changed by the encounters with John, thanks.

[samuctrebla]

Thanks a lot for this. Great scenes. Ach man. Johnny... Did you notice that the last scene from Love Streams resembles King Lear and the storm? Except that this King has a hat and juke box and a drink :)Long live the new flesh.

[vonkanear]

Gracias por mostrar esas 100 caras de esta persona increible, unica y necesaria. Es un buen espejo donde mirarse sin mascaras. Felicidades también por el montaje, muy buen trabajo. Gracias

[lenbenhear]

He was definitely a maverick out of hollywood, ... and along with Orson and a few others: a real genius. deep & brooding.

[lilaeye]

a great actor. one of my favourites.

[eyeseafilms]

DOESN'T THIS MAKE YOU WANT TO ACT?

[hnumus]

great man

excellent work

thanks a lot

[okidan2]

Shame, nobody has commented! Well done! Great work. Thanks!

[mrsheddweller]

Great work. I'm amazed nobody has commented. Morons. I've never met anyone that ever knew or liked Cassavetes' work. Amazing. Truly original. It's that they're all robots and trained to think some way. I think if you took a natural kid, no programming from tv or whatever, that they would naturally love someone like Cassavetes. It's a shame that when most people watch his work, it's too late, they've been programmed to derivative nonsense, it's all copies or copies of copies, thanks for this

[tom632001]

Well, you've met someone now. It's no exaggeration to say that Cassavets' work changed my life, how I react to art, people, etc. To say he's my favorite filmmaker is damning with faint praise-truthfully, he's more than a persoanl hero of mine-he's a lifetime inspiration.