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Charles KiselyakScenario:
Charles KiselyakActeurs:
Ben Gazzara, Carol Kane, Gena Rowlands, John Cassavetes, Lynn Carlin, Sean Penn, Lelia Goldoni, Seymour Cassel, Jon Voight, Peter Falk, John A. Gallagher (meer)Samenvattingen(1)
Charles Kiselyak’s A Constant Forge — The Life and Art of John Cassavetes is a detailed journey through the career of one of film’s greatest pioneers and iconoclasts. Assembled from candid interviews with Cassavetes’ collaborators and friends, rare photographs, archival footage, and the director’s own words, the film paints a revealing portrait of a man whose fierce love, courage, and dedication changed the face of cinema forever. (officiële tekst van distribiteur)
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The slow revealing of John Cassavetes’ creative methods with special attention given to his work with actors and his own personality (his own commentary is very piercing, especially the summary of his complete filmography in the opening few minutes). Instead of a quantity of information suitable for film history textbooks, the makers of this documentary give space primarily to people who personally knew this pioneer of independent American film and spent so much time with him that they could undoubtedly reminisce about him for more than three and a half hours (there is something to the equating of his crews to a family). What I found most absorbing was the second half of the film, which is focused less on actors and more on the director, his view of the world and his demands for truthful cinema. I haven’t yet taken in enough of Cassavetes’ films to come to any overall conclusions, but after seeing this documentary, I’ve begun to take interest.
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