{"id":29966,"date":"2010-11-12T08:09:42","date_gmt":"2010-11-12T13:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=29966"},"modified":"2010-11-12T09:05:34","modified_gmt":"2010-11-12T14:05:34","slug":"i-am-really-happy-the-doc-is-even-getting-out-on-dvd-y%e2%80%99know-for-a-forty-minute-short-to-come-out-on-dvd-is-not-an-every-day-occurrence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=29966","title":{"rendered":"“I am really happy the doc is even getting out on DVD. Y\u2019know, for a forty minute short to come out on DVD is not an every day occurrence.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A wonderful interview with Richard Shepard<\/a>, director of the HBO documentary I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale<\/i>. Five films. Is it possible that John Cazale only made five films? I have written before (here<\/a> and elsewhere) about the life-changing impact that Dog Day Afternoon<\/i> had on me (I saw it way too early, I was 12 years old), and of course I had no idea who John Cazale was, but he haunted me in that picture, even more so than Pacino did. Perhaps because I didn’t understand yet, what he was about. I have seen Cazale’s five films (The Godfather, The Conversation, Godfather Part II<\/i> and Dog Day Afternoon<\/i>) more times than I can count. I watch them to enjoy them, to study them, to lose myself in the movies that I first realized were “great”, before I knew the context or the history of them. “I bet these movies are really important …”<\/i> I thought to myself as a young pre-teen.<\/p>\n

John Cazale wasn’t “John Cazale” to me. He was Sal, with the machine gun in the bank, his hair falling into his morose nervous face. As far as I was concerned, he WAS that guy.<\/p>\n

I have not yet seen the John Cazale documentary, but I am thrilled that the damn thing even exists<\/i>. It’s not on Netflix yet, but I have just ordered myself a copy. I already know it’s going to be a keeper. <\/p>\n

Thanks for the great interview, Stephen. I love the bit about auditioning an actress who clearly “wasn’t listening”. A lesson learned for all actors. <\/p>\n

Definitely go read the whole thing.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A wonderful interview with Richard Shepard, director of the HBO documentary I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale. Five films. Is it possible that John Cazale only made five films? I have written before (here and elsewhere) about the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[1445,386],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29966"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29966"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29977,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29966\/revisions\/29977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}