SHADOWS

John Cassavetes

John Cassavetes (New York, USA, 1929 - Los Angeles, CA, USA, 1989) began as an actor before directing the 1959 movie Shadows, which was so successful that he was called to direct Too Late Blues and then A Child Is Waiting. Between 1965 and 1968, he directed Faces; in the 1970s, he directed his most important movies – Husbands (1970), Minnie and Moskowitz (1972), A Woman Under the Influence (1975) – working with actors such as Peter Falk, Ben Gazzara, Seymour Cassel and his wife Gena Rowlands. In 1980, he won a Golden Lion in Venice for his film Gloria, while Love Streams received a Golden Bear in Berlin in 1984. In 2007, the Torino Film Festival dedicated a complete retrospective to him.

FILMOGRAFIA

Shadows (Ombre, 1959), Too Late Blues (Blues di mezzanotte, 1961), A Child Is Waiting (Gli esclusi, 1963), Faces (Volti, 1968), Husbands (Mariti, 1970), Minnie and Moskowitz (Minnie e Moskowitz, 1972), A Woman Under the Influence (Una moglie, 1975), The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (L’assassinio di un allibratore cinese, 1976-1978), Opening Night (La sera della prima, 1977), Gloria (Una notte d’estate - Gloria, 1980), Love Streams (Love Streams - Scia d’amore, 1984), Big Trouble (Il grande imbroglio, 1985).