John Cassavetes
Director, Actor
Films to Buy on DVD
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series) (1955-1962)
- Pre–dating THE TWILIGHT ZONE by some years, the Master of Suspense created this iconic television series featuring self–contained tales…
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Shadows (1959)
- Cassavetes' influential debut explores inter–racial relationships with improvised dialogue, gitanes, ray–bans and Charlie Mingus…
- DVD $24.95
John Cassavetes Collection Boxset (Shadows, Faces, A Woman Under the Influence, Killing of a Chinese Bookie, Opening Night) (1959-1977)
- Five–film anthology of John Cassavetes' groundbreaking independent cinema. Includes Charles Kiselyak's lengthy documentary on Cassavetes, A…
- DVD $89.95
Child is Waiting, A (1963)
- At a school for disabled children music therapist Judy Garland butts heads with the conservative superintendent Burt Lancaster.
Film is of note as…
- DVD $19.95
Killers, The (1964)
- Transposed into the garish 60s, Ernest Hemingway's famous story is transformed into a harder, more callous exercise in casual violence and sexual…
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Faces (1968)
- A marriage in crisis lurches into a downward spiral of drunkeness and desperate affairs. The dishevelled honesty and stark camerawork may not suit…
- DVD $24.95
Woman Under the Influence, A (1974)
- Peter Falk and Gena Rowlands pull out the stops as a dysfunctional working– class couple. Though the drama (and running time) are left…
- DVD $24.95
Killing of a Chinese Bookie, The (1976)
- Cassavetes' most personal film concerns a strip–club owner (Ben Gazzara) who becomes indebted to the mob. An acquired taste for this one as…
- DVD $24.95
Two-Minute Warning (1976)
- Questionable Charlton Heston thriller set in a pro–football stadium, where a group of cops must take down a sniper in the crowd before he opens…
- DVD $19.95
Opening Night (1977)
- Intermittently fascinating, semi–improvised opus from Cassavetes (who also stars), about an aging actress (Gena Rowlands) who suffers a…
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