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John Cassavetes Box Set Slated for Fall 2004

Criterion is preparing a boxed set of five films by legendary American independent John Cassavetes. In addition to new high-definition transfers of Shadows, Faces, A Woman Under the Influence, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie and Opening Night, the set will include Charles Kiselyak’s award-winning 200 minute documentary, A Constant Forge, along with exclusive new interviews with Cassavetes collaborators Gena Rowlands, Peter Falk, Ben Gazzara, Seymour Cassel, Lelia Goldoni, and others. The set is slated for fall release. Watch this space for more details.

*gets tube of KY out*

― joseph (joseph), Thursday, 6 May 2004 19:32 (twenty-two years ago)

HOOOOOORAY

― a spectator bird (a spectator bird), Thursday, 6 May 2004 21:04 (twenty-two years ago)

If this is true, it just made my day.

― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Friday, 7 May 2004 01:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Awesome!!! But no Love Streams?

― Joe (Joe), Friday, 7 May 2004 01:25 (twenty-two years ago)

'tis true. it's announced on the front of the criterion homepage. (also, renoir box coming out in july)

― joseph (joseph), Friday, 7 May 2004 14:52 (twenty-two years ago)

This will be an obscenely expensive set, but I'll probably buy it. The only two Cassavetes films I've seen so far (*hangs head in shame*) are Gloria and Love Streams... sort of like the two ends of the spectrum, I guess... The latter is an unimpeachable masterpiece.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Saturday, 8 May 2004 01:48 (twenty-two years ago)

i've only seen Shadows, and i thought it was kind of whatever

― ryan (ryan), Saturday, 8 May 2004 04:28 (twenty-two years ago)

ah, no Minny & Moskowitz... maybe this is Vol.1

― gygax! (gygax!), Saturday, 8 May 2004 16:41 (twenty-two years ago)

've been waiting to see Love Streams for years, not wanting to deal with the shitty worn out VHS copy, why oh why isn't it included????

― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 10 May 2004 14:23 (twenty-two years ago)

one month passes...

here are all the details, just announced. awesome.

http://www.criterioncollection.com/asp/boxed_set.asp?id=250

― a spectator bird (a spectator bird), Friday, 25 June 2004 23:50 (twenty-one years ago)

coming out in my birthday month, too. how convenient!

― joseph (joseph), Saturday, 26 June 2004 02:03 (twenty-one years ago)

assuming anyone wants to pay the suggested retail price of $125, that is...yikes.

― joseph (joseph), Saturday, 26 June 2004 02:04 (twenty-one years ago)

pre-ordering from someplace like deepdiscountdvd or dvdplanet will probably bring you down around $90. but still, yikes.

― a spectator bird (a spectator bird), Saturday, 26 June 2004 02:34 (twenty-one years ago)

$90 doesn't even sound so bad when you consider that there's eight discs total in the box (at least that's how i rationalize it). still, i could always ask folks to make generous birthday donations :)

― joseph (joseph), Saturday, 26 June 2004 06:27 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

Opening Night, esp Rowlands, is worth watching in the first half, but the last (theatre) scene is particularly irritating. At least Falk isn't around to scream at Gena like that lye bath called A Woman Under the Influence.

Improv on screen I've yet to see work.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 16 December 2005 15:06 (twenty years ago)

wasn't improv, but hey, what do you care?

― detoxyDancer (sexyDancer), Friday, 16 December 2005 21:58 (twenty years ago)

haha.

minnie and moskowitz rules.

― howell huser (chaki), Friday, 16 December 2005 23:27 (twenty years ago)

Sorry, in that last theatre scene, JC & GC are most def 'winging stuff' even if they're saying the scripted lines too. JC sez so in the supplementary interview.

Yeah, I like minnie and moskowitz, faces and husbands; shadows and this one somewhat. Elaine May still made the best 'Cassavetes film.'

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 17 December 2005 17:58 (twenty years ago)

JC& GR even

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 19 December 2005 14:23 (twenty years ago)

Ray Carney's kind of a dick, but this is still interesting:

http://people.bu.edu/rcarney/discoveries/discrowlands.shtml

― C0L1N B... (C0L1N B...), Monday, 26 December 2005 08:11 (twenty years ago)

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