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Because I don’t remember that well…it was quite a while ago.
Is “Faces” the one where Gena Rowlands is a hooker singing “I love the Jeannie with the white-blonde hair” or sth. like that? That was one of the most annoying and painful minutes of my movie watching history. I remember either Shadows or Faces had a couple of people doing nothing… I remember “opening night” very well, and I was terribly bored.
A Woman Under the Influence is truly a great film and the only real good one I’ve seen from him.
I realize that “A Child is Waiting” was too mainstream and too “studio” for many film freaks out there. But I thought it was one of the better ones. It’s not a crime to use close-ups and music to convey emotions to the audience. Good movie.
The Killing…was kinda interesting to watch but ultimately forgettable. Though I dunno which cut I’ve seen.
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These are what everyone says the first time they see a Cassavetes films. The critics, and everybody but now, they’re all eating their words. You ought to watch them again. Sometimes scenes don’t reach a climax. Cassavetes doesn’t point out what’s important because EVERYTHING is important. The beaufitul mess of emotional shifts that can go from melancholy to empty joy to anger.
A Child is Waiting was hated by Cassavetes for those reasons above.
These are all kind of lame reasons to dislike his films.
"I was bored"
And that’s the films fault? Bullshit.
