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Gena Rowlands: A Life in Film
For Roger Ebert, I discuss Gena Rowlands’ extraordinary 6-decade career in all its facets, not just the productive Cassavetes years. She did a lot of television, and, as she got older, smaller parts in movies with large ensembles, but these … Continue reading
Gena Rowlands’ Oscar Speech Last Night
Listen to that ovation. Feel the emotion in that room! The explosion when she mentions “my late husband …” She is one of a kind and every single person – even big stars and A-list actresses – know it. The … Continue reading
Governors Awards Last Night: Gena Rowlands, Spike Lee, Debbie Reynolds
The Motion Picture Academy’s Governors Awards happened last night, honoring Spike Lee and Gena Rowlands with Honorary Oscars, and Debbie Reynolds (who was too ill to attend) with the Humanitarian Award. Cheryl Boone Isaacs, President of the Academy, started off … Continue reading
Mia Farrow on Gena Rowlands
Mia Farrow on Gena Rowlands in Lonely are the Brave in 1962: “I had seen her when I was a teenager in Lonely Are the Brave with Kirk Douglas. I’d never seen anyone that beautiful with a certain gravitas. It … Continue reading
Associated Press: “What is the movie experience you’d most like to forget or do differently?” Gena Rowlands: “If I have something I like to forget, then I forget it.”
Gena Rowlands celebrates 6 decades in film with honorary Oscar: The Associated Press interview with Gena Rowlands. That exchange in the title is my favorite bit, but there is tons more great stuff there, involving a funny anecdote about Bette … Continue reading
Gena Rowlands: “What Movies Mean to Me”
The Lifetime Achievement Oscar ceremony is happening this Saturday, November 14th. The honorees for Honorary Awards are Spike Lee, Debbie Reynolds, and Gena Rowlands. If you’ve been following along, then you know my involvement in this whole thing, an experience … Continue reading
October 2015 Viewing Diary
Moontide (1942; d. Archie Mayo – and an uncredited Fritz Lang) And John O’Hara wrote the screenplay. How I love this film. Ida Lupino plays a suicidal girl, rescued from the waves by Bobo (a to-die-for Jean Gabin). Bobo is … Continue reading
Posted in Monthly Viewing Diary, Movies, Television
Tagged Australia, Channing Tatum, Chantal Akerman, Charles Vidor, Claude Rains, documentary, England, France, Gena Rowlands, Gilda, Ida Lupino, Iran, Iranian film, Ireland, Joe Berlinger, John Ford, John Sturges, John Wayne, Kristen Wiig, Maureen O'Hara, Mexico, Nicholas Ray, Peter Weir, Poland, Ridley Scott, Rita Hayworth, Supernatural, Thomas Mitchell, William Wellman
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John and Gena (and Dog) by Sam Shaw
The awesome photographer Sam Shaw was very close to John Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands, both personally and professionally. He produced Husbands, Woman Under the Influence, Opening Night, Gloria. He was production designer on Killing of a Chinese Bookie. He designed … Continue reading
Quotes By/About Gena Rowlands
These quotes focus on the Cassavetes years. Rowlands has had a vast career outside of that, only it’s just not as well documented. “I spotted this doll one day and pretended that I wanted to talk to her about a … Continue reading
