John Cassavetes

John Cassavetes, (born December 9, 1929, New York, New York, U.S.—died February 3, 1989, Los Angeles, California), American film director and actor regarded as a pioneer of American cinema verité and as the father of the independent film movement in the United States.

John Cassavetes was a Greek-American actor, screenwriter, and director. He was known for being one of the pioneers in the field of independent cinema and ...

John Cassavetes began his career in film in 1953 and ended it in 1986, between which times he was involved in every aspect of the film, television, and stage arts, including acting, directing, scoring, shooting, editing, producing, and marketing.

Nel 1968, John Cassavetes ha realizzato nella sua abitazione e con i suoi amici e collaboratori il film "Volti (Faces)", che ha avuto un enorme impatto per lo sviluppo del cinema indipendente. Realizzato con un budget di soli $ 275.000 il film ha avuto una nomination all'Oscar per la migliore sceneggiatura originale. Cassavetes dimostrò che era possibile fare grandi film con solo un ...

No one knows a drunk like a drunk, and John Cassavetes certainly appears to have been intimately familiar with the subject. When I was reviewing clips from his body of work, one of the first things I noticed was how many of the storylines revolved around boozing and alcoholic behavior, and how so many of his characters could have been classified as alcoholics by anybody with even a passing