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    filmmaking. John Nicholas Cassavetes was born in New York City on December 9, 1929, the son of Greek-American actress Katherine Cassavetes (née Demetre)...
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    Carney, The films of John Cassavetes, New York and London: Cambridge University Press, 1994: p. 28. Ray Carney, Cassavetes on Cassavetes, Macmillan, 2001:...
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    directed by his father, John Cassavetes—as well as roles in the films The Wraith (1986), Face/Off (1997), and Blow (2001). Cassavetes was born in New York...
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  • actress Katherine Cassavetes. She is the sister of actor-director Nick Cassavetes and actor-screenwriter-director Zoe Cassavetes. Cassavetes directed the 2004...
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  • actor-director John Cassavetes and mother-in-law of actress Gena Rowlands. Her grandchildren are actor-directors Nick Cassavetes, Zoe Cassavetes, and Alexandra...
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    Rowlands Cassavetes (born June 29, 1970) is an American film director, screenwriter, and actress. She is the daughter of filmmaker John Cassavetes and actress...
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    Gena Rowlands (category Cassavetes family)
    Golden Globe winner, she collaborated with her actor-director husband John Cassavetes in ten films, including A Woman Under the Influence (1974) and Gloria...
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    A Woman Under the Influence (category Films directed by John Cassavetes)
    the Influence is a 1974 American drama film written and directed by John Cassavetes. The story follows a woman (Gena Rowlands) whose unusual behavior leads...
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  • 1980 American neo-noir crime thriller film written and directed by John Cassavetes. It tells the story of a gangster's former girlfriend who goes on the...
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    The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (category Films directed by John Cassavetes)
    Bookie is a 1976 American neo-noir crime film written and directed by John Cassavetes and starring Ben Gazzara. A rough and gritty film, this is the second...
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    Hysterical Blindness (2002). Gazzara was a recurring collaborator of John Cassavetes, working with him on Husbands (1970), The Killing of a Chinese Bookie...
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    Shadows (1959 film) (category Films directed by John Cassavetes)
    Shadows is a 1959 American independent drama film directed by John Cassavetes about race relations during the Beat Generation years in New York City....
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  • She's So Lovely (category Films directed by Nick Cassavetes)
    is a 1997 American romantic drama film directed by Nick Cassavetes, written by John Cassavetes. At the time of its release, it received special attention...
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  • use her baby for their rituals. The film's supporting cast includes John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon, Sidney Blackmer, Maurice Evans, Ralph Bellamy, Patsy...
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  • The Independent Spirit John Cassavetes Award is presented to the creative team of a film budgeted at less than $1,000,000 by the Film Independent, a non-profit...
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  • Husbands (film) (category Films directed by John Cassavetes)
    comedy-drama film written and directed by John Cassavetes. It stars Ben Gazzara, Peter Falk, and Cassavetes as three middle class men in the throes of...
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    Opening Night (1977 film) (category Films directed by John Cassavetes)
    and directed by John Cassavetes, and starring Gena Rowlands, Ben Gazzara, Joan Blondell, Paul Stewart, Zohra Lampert, and Cassavetes. Its plot follows...
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  • supporting cast including Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, Jim Brown, John Cassavetes, Richard Jaeckel, George Kennedy, Ralph Meeker, Robert Ryan, Trini...
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    Faces (1968 film) (category Films directed by John Cassavetes)
    Faces is a 1968 American drama film written, produced, and directed by John Cassavetes. It is his fourth directorial work. The film, shot in cinéma vérité-style...
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  • filmmakers document Cassavetes during the making of Love Streams, the last film he both wrote and directed. Originally released following Cassavetes' death in 1989...
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    American crime drama film written and directed by Elaine May. It stars John Cassavetes as a desperate small-time mobster and Peter Falk as his longtime, childhood...
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    director John Cassavetes and appeared in his films Husbands, A Woman Under the Influence, and, in a cameo, at the end of Opening Night. Cassavetes guest-starred...
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  • Love Streams (film) (category Films directed by John Cassavetes)
    of John Cassavetes: Pragmatism, Modernism, and the Movies, Cambridge University Press, 1994. Carney, Raymond Francis, Junior, (Editor), Cassavetes on...
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  • Minnie and Moskowitz (category Films directed by John Cassavetes)
    Carey) Katherine Cassavetes as Sheba Moskowitz John Cassavetes as Jim (uncredited) David Rowlands as Minister Alexandra Cassavetes as Young girl in ballet...
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  • Lady Rowlands (category Cassavetes family)
    to California along with her daughter and son-in-law, actor John Cassavetes. Cassavetes began directing films, and cast Rowlands in three of his pictures...
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    was tied to fellow actor John Cassavetes, who was informally part of his clan of actors. He made his film debut in Cassavetes' first film, Shadows, on...
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    the 29th Venice International Film Festival for his performance in John Cassavetes' Faces (1968), and was nominated for an Academy Award and a Golden...
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    Out and Prince of Broadway were nominated for the Independent Spirit John Cassavetes Award at the same ceremony in 2008. The director's fourth feature,...
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  • The Maysles Brothers (Albert and David Maysles) Frederick Wiseman John Cassavetes Barbara Kopple Les Blank Peter Watkins Matthew Heineman Daybreak Express...
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  • Merawi Gerima was among the protesters; Gerima previously won the John Cassavetes Award for his film Residue at the 36th Independent Spirit Awards in...
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