Director John Cassavetes told him after he completed Boxcar Bertha: " You ’ ve just spent a year of your life making a piece of shit.

Producer Charles Joffe told filmmaker Xan Cassavetes that the primary strategic reason Woody Allen's Annie Hall won the Academy Award in 1977 is because it had played so frequently on Z Channel during the weeks the awards were being voted on.

At a May 17, 2008 George Eastman House screening in Rochester, Ben Gazzara said he ' hated ' the original cut ; ' it's too long ', he told Cassavetes.

Peirce drew inspiration from the filming style of John Cassavetes and the early work of Martin Scorsese, and incorporated neo-realism techniques in filming.

Cassavetes is strongest as a writer and filmmaker at creating specific characters and then sticking with them through long, painful, uncompromising scenes until we know them well enough to read them, to predict what they'll do next and even to begin to understand why.

Rowlands has not spoken to the press about the matter, but some, such as Jonathan Rosenbaum, have suggested that it might have less to do with trying to destroy or suppress the film and more to do with Carney's name being attached with its find ; Carney's caustic personal style, coupled with his usurping of the name Cassavetes for his own website, has irritated members of the Cassavetes estate.

It was shown at the San Sebastián Film Festival, where Rowlands was named Best Actress and Cassavetes won the Silver Shell Award for Best Director, and the New York Film Festival, where it captured the attention of film critics like Rex Reed.

Although they are most remembered for the Death Wish sequels and Chuck Norris action pictures such as The Delta Force and Invasion U. S. A., and even the vigilante thriller Exterminator 2 ( the sequel to 1980 ’ s The Exterminator ), Cannon ’ s output was actually far more varied, with musical and comedy films like Breakin ’, Breakin ’ 2: Electric Boogaloo, The Last American Virgin, and the U. S. release of The Apple ; period romance pictures like Lady Chatterley's Lover ( 1981 ), Bolero, and Mata Hari ( 1985 ); science fiction and fantasy films like Hercules, Lifeforce and The Barbarians ; as well as serious pictures like John Cassavetes ’ Love Streams, Zeffirelli ’ s Otello ( a film version of the Verdi opera ), Norman Mailer ’ s Tough Guys Don ’ t Dance, Andrei Konchalovsky ’ s Runaway Train, and Shy People ; and action / adventure films such as the 3-D Treasure of the Four Crowns, King Solomon ’ s Mines, Cobra and American Ninja.

Independent lower budget filmmaking in the post war period using portable 16mm film cameras allowed filmmakers like John Cassavetes in the United States, along with members of the French New Wave and Italian Neorealism in Europe, to circumvent the classical system.

He is best known for his bestselling book Film as a Subversive Art ( 1974 ) and as the founder of the New York City avantgarde ciné-club Cinema 16 ( 1947 – 1963 ), where he was the first programmer to present films by Roman Polanski, John Cassavetes, Nagisa Oshima, Jacques Rivette and Alain Resnais as well as early and important screenings by American avant-gardists of the time like Stan Brakhage, Maya Deren, James Broughton, Kenneth Anger, Sidney Peterson, Bruce Conner, Carmen D ' Avino and many others.

" At one point, Gosling asked director Nick Cassavetes to " bring somebody else in for my off-camera shot " because he felt McAdams was being uncooperative.

At the time of its release, it received special attention because, eight years after his death, it was the first ( and still only ) film to posthumously feature new material from John Cassavetes.

New Line Cinema adapted My Sister's Keeper into a feature film, which was directed by Nick Cassavetes and released on June 26, 2009.

He followed that film with the hugely successful World War II epic The Dirty Dozen ( 1967 ) in which top-billed Marvin again portrayed an intrepid commander of a colorful group ( future stars John Cassavetes, Charles Bronson, Telly Savalas, Jim Brown, and Donald Sutherland ) performing an almost impossible mission.

" Almost a quarter-century later, Ebert wrote a second review, in which he called Woman Under the Influence " perhaps the greatest of Cassavetes ' films.

Inspired by the works of Hungarian director Bela Tarr and American maverick John Cassavetes, Van Sant retreated to the deserts of Argentina, Utah, and Death Valley for 2002's Gerry, a loosely devised, largely improvised feature in which stars Matt Damon and Casey Affleck — both playing characters named Gerry — wander through the desert, discussing Wheel of Fortune, video games, and nothing in particular.

The four-time Emmy and two-time Golden Globe winner is best known for her collaborations with her actor-director husband John Cassavetes in ten films, in two of which, Gloria and A Woman Under the Influence, she gave Academy Award-nominated performances.

Rowlands was seen in The Notebook, which was directed by her son Nick Cassavetes, opposite James Garner.

After the premiere of the Ur-Shadows at the Rotterdam Film Festival, an apologia was issued at the behest of the Cassavetes estate, which states that the Ur-Shadows was an unauthorized working cut never meant to be shown to the public, and that only the official and complete version of Shadows was meant to be seen.

After studying acting under John Cassavetes, Crosse appeared in two of Cassavetes ' films: Shadows ( for which he won a Venice Film Festival Award ) and Too Late Blues ( 1962 ).

The first of these was the hugely successful The Oshawa Project ( published in the US as The Algonquin Project ) which was later filmed by MGM as Brass Target, starring Sophia Loren, John Cassavetes, Robert Vaughn, George Kennedy, Patrick McGoohan and Max von Sydow.

These singles, which included " Ekkehard Ehlers Plays Cornelius Cardew " and " Ekkehard Ehlers Plays John Cassavetes " were ultimately gathered together on the 2002 album Plays.

Rebecca Augusta Miller ( born September 15, 1962 ) is an American film director, screenwriter and actress, most known for her films Personal Velocity: Three Portraits ( winner of the Independent Spirit John Cassavetes Award ), The Ballad of Jack and Rose, Angela and The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, all of which she wrote and directed.

The album's lyrics frequently reference film, in particular the song " Cassavetes " which is a tribute to actor / filmmaker John Cassavetes, as well as a critique of Hollywood culture.

Packard Walsh ( Nick Cassavetes ) is a ruthless leader of the gang which steal the cars of people they threaten into intimidation races.

Miguel Arteta ( born 1965 ) is a Puerto Rican director of film and television, known for his independent film Chuck & Buck ( 2000 ), for which he received the Independent Spirit John Cassavetes Award, and Cedar Rapids ( 2011 ).

The channel was the subject of the 2004 documentary Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession, which was directed by Alexandra Cassavetes, daughter of John Cassavetes.

Rowlands did not read the book, but heard about some of the more unseemly aspects of her husband's personality covered within, and, according to Carney, began discrediting Carney's work, going so far as to have him fired from the Criterion Collection Cassavetes box-set — after his work as scholarly advisor had been completed.

" He also had a small role in Cassavetes ' Gloria ( 1980 ).

She also had a role in Faces ( 1968 ), directed by John Cassavetes and starring John Marley and Gena Rowlands.

Lacking studio financing, Cassavetes mortgaged his house and borrowed from family and friends, one of whom was Peter Falk, who liked the screenplay so much he invested $ 500, 000 in the project.

* In the 1993 Denis Leary song " Asshole ", Leary states he is " going to get the Duke ( John Wayne ), John Cassavetes, Lee Marvin, Sam Peckinpah and a case of whiskey then drive down to Texas " before being cut off by a bandmate and getting called an asshole.

Cassavetes came in fifth in the World Poker Tour Invitational Season 5 attempting a bluff.

A rough and gritty film, it is comparable in form to Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets ( 1973 ) ( whose help Cassavetes sought ).

She made her feature movie debut, aged fourteen, in the John Cassavetes film Crime In The Streets.

The result of his experience with adapting The Demolished Man was The Fury, a science fiction psychic thriller that starred Kirk Douglas, Carrie Snodgress, John Cassavetes and Amy Irving.

Director / actor John Cassavetes contemplating Capra ’ s contribution to the art of film quipped: “ Maybe there really wasn ’ t an America, it was only Frank Capra .” Capra ’ s films were his love letters to an idealized America — a cinematic landscape of his own invention.

Falk was a close friend of independent film director John Cassavetes and appeared in Cassavetes ' films Husbands, A Woman Under the Influence., and, in a cameo, at the end of Opening Night.

Falk describes his experiences working with Cassavetes, and specifically remembers his directing strategies such as " shooting an actor when he might be unaware the camera was running.

Shadows is an improvised film about interracial relations during the Beat Generation years in New York City, and was written and directed by John Cassavetes.

The 1957 version was intended to have the jazz music of Charles Mingus on the soundtrack, but Mingus failed to meet various deadlines set by Cassavetes.

John Cassavetes was inspired to write A Woman Under the Influence when wife Gena Rowlands expressed a desire to appear in a play about the difficulties faced by contemporary women.

The crew consisted of professionals and students from the American Film Institute, where Cassavetes was serving as the first " filmmaker in residence " at their Center for Advanced Film Studies.

Upon completion of the film, Cassavetes was unable to find a distributor, so he personally called theater owners and asked them to run the film.

" It was booked into art houses and shown on college campuses, where Cassavetes and Falk discussed it with the audience.

In Blu-ray DVD commentary on the Deleted Scenes with Cassavetes and writer James Kearns, the main theme of the movie was said to be " about a miracle and John's faith in God creating the miracle ".

In 2004, Garner starred in the movie version of Nicholas Sparks ' The Notebook alongside Gena Rowlands as his wife ( portrayed in flashbacks by Rachel McAdams, while the younger version of Garner's character was played by Ryan Gosling ), directed by Nick Cassavetes, Rowlands ' son.

The UCLA Film and Television Archive mounted a restoration of Husbands, as it was pruned down ( without Cassavetes ' consent, and in violation of his contract ) by Columbia Pictures several months after its release, in an attempt to restore as much of the removed content as possible.

Rowlands was married to John Cassavetes from April 9, 1954, until his death on February 3, 1989.

However, once his wife, Gena Rowlands, was asked to play the title character in the film, she asked Cassavetes to direct it.

It was sung ( in part ) in John Cassavetes ' film Husbands ( film ).

Her father, Burton Eugene Lane, was a Manhattan drama coach who ran an acting workshop with John Cassavetes, worked as a cab driver, and later taught humanities at City College.