Robert Benton: Bad Company, The Late Show, and Kramer vs. Kramer. Favorites: The Godfather (1972), Day for Night (1973), Scarecrow (1973), Amadeus (1984). The way this mangaes to remain funny and hopeful while so harsh is really hard to put together. on 2020-10-02, barack added Showgirls to her watchlist on 2020-10-02, Charlie rated The Tale of the Princess Kaguya ★★★★★ Seeing the original trilogy (New Hope, Empire, Return) as a child on those 3 VHS tapes was magnificent and for me joined the likes of Steven Spielberg's E.T. on 2020-10-02, barack followed FoofDeckman edit: also I love movies that take 10+ minutes before you get opening credits. Gena was extraordinary as usual, what an actress. As much as I have an appreciation for Pokemon, Dragon Ball and other childhood franchises, this one has stuck by me the most. هنا جميع الأفلام التي ذكرت في كتاب التذوق السينمائي للمؤلف "الآن كاسبيار". Special Consideration to Val Avery as Zelmo Swift, a character that made me laugh so hard I thought I was going to pass out, before he too veers into emotional and physical violence. WHEWWWW HAVENT SEEN A MOVIE LIKE THIS FOR A MINUTE!! Feeling alone in a crowd, on a date. What is worth noticing is that we cannot guess how this two characters are going to met and how their love story is going to start. I just couldn't. I can handle the truth. Minnie and Moskowitz shouldn't work when one consider how much of it is based in pre-ordained high concept from Minnie''s big speech about movie fantasy to the whole "a romantic comedy by John Cassavetes", but yet it does beautifully. Cassavetes characters are too real -- like all real people, they encounter situations in which they don't know how to respond all the time. This one specifically is moving on multiple levels, both making audiences laugh occasionally at the absurity and almost in romcom territory, while simultaneously being a horrific recounting of how toxic masculinity imbued in our media and society has turned men into monsters and women into victims by simply existing in public. Film data from TMDb. The hackney ass voice acting.
Favorite Film For Every Year I've Been Alive, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. 191 films watched. What do you call the exact opposite of a meet-cute? Every Saturday! I really didn’t, not until years later. It doesn’t happen, you keep looking. The more aware I am of the distance between myself and others. John Cassavetes ()2. Mobile site. For all the talk of Cassavetes' own realism, his characters more often resemble Old Hollywood types thrown into the real world and forced to fend for themselves, not someone you'd just see on the street. The uncanny valley moments of your characters in your ugly-ass environment. Although it does follows the structure of boy mets girl, Cassavetes goes places no other love film would go. I could've been somebody, instead of bad movie reviewer, which is what I am. I'm also a huge geek in terms of film, anime, manga, comics, tv, poetry, and just about anything else. But writer/director John Cassavetes doesn't just leave this bit of character-building to that monologue alone; he subsequently proceeds to give us a sense of how she got to this emotionally numb state in the first place—not through flashbacks and clunky expository dialogue, but simply through observation of behavior. After shaggy-haired parking lot attendant Seymour Moskowitz comes to her defense from an angry and rebuffed blind date, he falls hopelessly in love with her despite their myriad differences. Charlie uses Letterboxd to share film reviews and lists. We catch glimpses of ourselves in a parallel reality, and the feelings we process are more productive than…. Rowlands and Cassell here are just perfect and Cassavetes' mom is almost as good. Would go into more with a more in depth review. Early on in Minnie and Moskowitz, Minnie (Gena Rowlands) drunkenly admits her romantic frustrations to a museum co-worker of hers, and as Rowlands delivers her speech, it's an affecting scene, especially when she curses the movies for selling to people like herself what she by now considers unrealistic fantasies of love and romance. on 2020-10-02. minnie and moscovitz is love born out of exhaustion. Quality in Cassavete’s movies is always amazing for real, and I love how his style is still visible in every single one of the movies I’ve seen from him. this is a most peculiar and weirdly charming love story -- and now one of my favorite LA movies too. 4,149 films watched. Also now one of my absolute all time favorites. Typically only see the money or book Jew archetype in popular media. hooha! Love. almost done with cassavetes filmography this is definitely his most underrated film. Probably the most depressing "and they lived happily ever after" ending of all time. "I think about you so much, I forget to go to the bathroom" might still be my favorite romantic line in all movies. Both characters are lonely souls that desire to be loved. Honestly. The taxi driver who eyes her amusedly as he takes her home in her intoxicated state; her abusive….
An endlessly entertaining 4-hour romp that's so well paced it doesn't even feel it's length. While on the whole it isn't his best work compared to Love Streams or Woman Under the influence, there are a few scenes in this one that are some of the most affecting and well acted in his whole filmography. TMDb Minnie reluctantly agrees to a date with Moskowitz, and, slowly but surely, an unlikely romance blossoms between the two. I coulda been a contender. Mobile site. 1,502 films 6,717 122 Edit. The book celebrates and chronicles over one…, List copied from MUBI.
On the other hand, Minnie is obsessed with a man who hits her and treats her badly. barack uses Letterboxd to share film reviews and lists. I'm a panexual guy who loves film, making film and talking about film.
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His characters are always so naked and vivid that they skirt self-parody, at least by the buttoned-up standards we hold characters to as a sign of "realism." Favorites: Love Exposure (2008), Mirror (1975), Do the Right Thing (1989), Taste of Cherry (1997). You mock modern cartoons for having a samey art-style hut your shit hasn't changed since you fucking started. I can only hope to make something as classic as this. John Cassavetes: Opening Night, Husbands, Minnie and Moskowitz, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, and A Woman Under the Influence. I mean it. Maybe the romance isn't even directed at a person but an idea or a collection of words or images that have no place. that hair!)4. Perhaps it is how ir articulate the Cassavetian paradox of Hollywood skeptic that yet remains at the outskirts od the industry and whose work is all about how to better articulate movie feeling. list One important franchise that played a big part into this was the Star Wars franchise.
Your lack of pacing and timing. Cassavetes is such a genius. My Letterboxd. 1971 His movies and his acting are definitely my style. Working both as a monster collection franchise and wonderfully as a celebration of childhood and youth. There’s no Charles Boyer in…. on 2020-10-02, Charlie added Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan to his watchlist A jack of all trades and simultaneously a master of all in terms of film-making, style, and storytelling.
So you believe it, right? I was not aware that Cassavetes directed a romantic comedy.
© Letterboxd Limited. Shitty men power rankings:5. Depressed and jaded after being dumped by her married boyfriend, aging beauty Minnie Moore (Gena Rowlands) wonders if she'll ever find love. Why was every guy barking at Gena Rowlands... Like... my man, you should be thanking the heavens she even looked in your direction smh. Timothy Carey (Joe Spinell saw this, right?)3. Film data from TMDb. Made by fans in Auckland, New Zealand. Somewhere between boredom and desperation. Favorites: The Brown Bunny (2003), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Jackass Number Two (2006), News from Home (1976). They set you up from the time you’re a little kid. I’m always gonna be excited by you. The older I get, the more alone I feel. A film that easily became an all-time favorite for me. Isolation within our own relationship. “The movie is sort of a fairy tale, Cassavetes says; it's dedicated to all the people who didn't marry the person they should have. Minnie reluctantly agrees to a date with Moskowitz, and, slowly but surely, an unlikely romance blossoms between the two. 2,260 films watched. They set you up to believe in everything. I coulda had class. classics that i say i want to watch but i never will probs. “I think about you so much, I forget to go to the bathroom!”. They are actually a conspiracy.
Hi. It happens in…, the seymour and gena combo couldnt have been anything but incredible, i love the friendship between him and cassavetes. I know everything is written and there's no improvisation, but it all just feels like you're following along in real life with these people. Gena Rowlands Seymour Cassel Val Avery Timothy Carey Katherine Cassavetes Judith Roberts John Cassavetes Lady Rowlands Elizabeth Deering Elsie Ames Holly Near Eleanor Zee David Rowlands Darren Moloney, Arthur J. Ornitz Michael D. Margulies Alric Edens, 115 mins