TagJohn Cassavetes

Society must chuck its petty prejudices and false idols and if necessary start again from a new beginning where men as well as women can be kind to themselves.

John Cassavetes

I am here and I don’t know why.

John Cassavetes

Art, meaning that we will enjoy ourselves and express ourselves freely.

John Cassavetes

Drama

Faces (Πρόσωπα, 1968)

Ο John Cassavetes αποτυπώνει με ρεαλισμό τις ανθρώπινες σχέσεις, όπως αυτές διαμορφώθηκαν τα τελευταία χρόνια.

REVIEWS

Ixcanul Volcano – Berlinale 65

A low key coming-of-age drama that stands between the local Mayan traditions and their bleak impoverished lives. Debut feature film by Jayro Bustamante.

Suntan – Jerusalem 33

Argyris Papadimitropoulos’ third feature film is a bleak and bittersweet cul-de-sac set under the glaring Aegean sun.

El Sicario, Room 164 (2010)

Τhe controversial documentary by Gianfranco Rosi. A retired sicario is narrating his experiences working for the Mexican drug cartels.

Až do Mesta Aš (Made in Ash) – Torino 30

Iveta Grófová depicts the bleak life in Bohemia that has gradually become Germany's poor man's Thailand.

Jauja (2014)

Jodorowsky meets Tarkovsky with a touch of Beckettian minimalism in Lisandro Alonso's hypnotic meta-Western that leads Viggo Mortensen into a never-ending journey to a surreal existential void.

TagJohn Cassavetes

Introduction to Faces by John Cassavetes

John Cassavetes: I am here and I don’t know why

John Cassavetes on Art

Faces (Πρόσωπα, 1968)

Ixcanul Volcano – Berlinale 65

Suntan – Jerusalem 33

El Sicario, Room 164 (2010)

Až do Mesta Aš (Made in Ash) – Torino 30

Jauja (2014)

Grandrieux on his films

Ingmar Bergman on existence

The Meaning of Cinema by Andrei Tarkovsky

Godard on Italian Cinema

Francesco Rosi: The cinema of emotions