{"id":1713,"date":"2004-09-27T17:08:23","date_gmt":"2004-09-27T21:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=1713"},"modified":"2010-07-02T07:50:26","modified_gmt":"2010-07-02T11:50:26","slug":"just-seeing-the-name-john-cassavetes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=1713","title":{"rendered":"“Like Orson Welles, [John Cassavetes] didn’t always play well with others…”"},"content":{"rendered":"

This article is a gold-mine<\/a>. John Cassavetes’ films released on DVD, bringing out the discussions of his work.<\/p>\n

There’s a guy out in California – an ex-boyfriend – who was my partner-in-crime in Cassavetes obsession. I always think of him when Cassavetes’ name comes up. I loved that guy. I’ve lost track of him … sadly. I am sure <\/i>he has seen this article. I am sure of it. And I am sure that when he saw it, he thought of me, too.<\/p>\n

Here is Manohla Dargis’s piece, with great background on Cassavetes<\/a><\/p>\n

It was his fierce idealism and relentless optimism that helped make him who he was. He was also difficult, unyielding, chaotic. He was a huge drinker. He raced into the grave, basically. <\/p>\n

The last paragraph of the article made a lump rise in my throat.<\/p>\n

The hostility Cassavetes inspired has always puzzled me. Like Orson Welles, he didn’t always play well with others and he didn’t make all that much money for the movie industry. The other reason for the discomfort, I think, is that he called himself an artist. Many critics prefer their art with subtitles or not at all. Cassavetes dared to believe that art and movies were not mutually exclusive, and he never gave up on the movies’ capacity to move us, to make us feel, to connect us to the world and to other people. It says something about our age that it actually comes as a shock to hear him talk with such frank sincerity about his films as art, which he does in a French television interview included in the Criterion box set. For him, art was never a dirty word; it was a reason for living, the animating pulse. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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