John Cassavetes: Five Films (The Criterion Collection) [8 DVD9s] [Re-post]

John Cassavetes’ directorial debut revolves around an interracial romance between Lelia (Lelia Goldoni), a light-skinned black woman living in New York City with her two brothers, and Tony (Anthony Ray), a white man. The relationship crumbles when Tony meets Lelia’s brother Hugh (Hugh Hurd), a talented dark-skinned jazz singer struggling to find work, and discovers the truth about Lelia’s racial heritage. Shot on location in Manhattan with a cast and crew made up primarily of amateurs, Cassavetes’ Shadows is a visionary work that is widely considered the forerunner of the American independent film movement.

Disc Features:
* Restored high-definition digital transfer
* Video interviews with actress Lelia Goldoni and associate producer Seymour Cassel
* Rare silent 16 mm footage of John Cassavetes and Burt Lane’s acting workshop
* Restoration demonstration
* Stills gallery featuring rare behind-the-scenes production photos
* Theatrical trailer
* English subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired
* PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Gary Giddins and a 1961 article by Cassavetes

The disintegration of a marriage is dissected in John Cassavetes’ searing Faces. Shot in high-contrast 16 mm black and white, the film follows the futile attempts of captain of industry Richard (John Marley) and his wife, Maria (Lynn Carlin), to escape the anguish of their empty marriage in the arms of others. Featuring astonishingly powerful, nervy performances from Marley, Carlin, and Cassavetes regulars Gena Rowlands and Seymour Cassel, Faces confronts suburban alienation and the battle of the sexes with a brutal honesty and compassion rarely matched in cinema.

Disc Features:
* Restored high-definition digital transfer
* Seventeen-minute alternate opening sequence, from an early edit of the film
* Episode of the French television series Cinéastes de notre temps, from 1968, dedicated to Cassavetes, featuring rare interviews and behind-the-scenes footage
* Making “Faces”, a 2004 documentary including interviews with actors Lynn Carlin, Seymour Cassel, and Gena Rowlands and director of photography Al Ruban
* Lighting & Shooting the Film, a short documentary from 2004 in which Ruban explains how he and the crew achieved the distinct look of Faces
* English subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired
* PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by Stuart Klawans

John Cassavetes’ devastating drama details the emotional breakdown of a suburban housewife and her family’s struggle to save her from herself. Starring Peter Falk and Gena Rowlands (in two of the most harrowing screen performances of the 1970s) as a married couple deeply in love yet unable to express that love in terms the other can understand, the film is an uncompromising portrait of domestic turmoil. The Criterion Collection is proud to present one of the benchmark films of American independent cinema—a heroic document from a true maverick director.

Disc Features:
* Restored high-definition digital transfer
* Audio commentary featuring longtime John Cassavetes collaborators Michael Ferris (camera operator) and Bo Harwood (sound recordist/composer)
* Video conversation between actors Gena Rowlands and Peter Falk
* Audio interview with Cassavetes by film historians Michel Ciment and Michael Wilson, conducted in 1975
* Trailer
* Stills gallery featuring rare behind-the-scenes production photos
* PLUS: An essay by film critic Kent Jones and an interview with Cassavetes from 1975

John Cassavetes engages film noir in his own inimitable style with The Killing of a Chinese Bookie. Ben Gazzara brilliantly portrays gentlemen’s club owner Cosmo Vitelli, a man dedicated to pretenses of composure and self-possession. When he runs afoul of a group of gangsters, Cosmo is forced to commit a horrible crime in a last-ditch effort to save his beloved club and his way of life. Suspenseful, mesmerizing, and idiosyncratic, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie is a thought-provoking examination of desperation and masculine identity.

Disc Features:
* Restored high-definition digital transfer of John Cassavetes’ original 135-minute edit of the film
* Restored high-definition digital transfer of Cassavetes’ 108-minute edit for the 1978 theatrical rerelease
* Video interviews with star Ben Gazzara and producer Al Ruban
* Audio interview with Cassavetes by film historians Michel Ciment and Michael Wilson, conducted after the film’s release
* Stills gallery featuring rare behind-the-scenes production photos

Broadway actress Myrtle Gordon (Gena Rowlands) rehearses for her latest play, about a woman unable to admit that she is aging. When she witnesses the accidental death of an adoring young fan, she begins to confront the personal and professional turmoil she faces in her own life. Featuring a moving performance by Rowlands (and with some scenes shot on stages with live audiences reacting freely to the writing and performing), John Cassavetes’ Opening Night exposes the drama of an actress who at great personal cost makes a part her own.

Disc Features:
* New high-definition digital transfer, with restored image and sound, and enhanced for widescreen televisions
* New video conversation between actors Gena Rowlands and Ben Gazzara
* New video interview with director of photography and producer Al Ruban
* Audio interview with Cassavetes by film historians Michel Ciment and Michael Wilson conducted after the film’s release
* Trailers
* English subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired
* Optimal image quality: RSDL dual-layer edition

Charles Kiselyak’s A Constant Forge—The Life and Art of John Cassavetes is a detailed journey through the career of one of film’s greatest pioneers and iconoclasts. Assembled from candid interviews with Cassavetes’ collaborators and friends, rare photographs, archival footage, and the director’s own words, the film paints a revealing portrait of a man whose fierce love, courage, and dedication changed the face of cinema forever.

Disc Features:
* Biographical sketches of the actors Cassavetes used in many of his films, written by Tom Charity (John Cassavetes: Lifeworks)
* Poster gallery for Cassavetes’ Faces, Shadows, A Woman Under the Influence, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, and Opening Night
* English subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired
* Optimal image quality: RSDL dual-layer edition

DVDs:
DVD RELEASE: 2004
STUDIO: Criterion
CATALOG: 250
SYSTEM: NTSC
SCREEN: OAR
COLOUR: Black & White / Colour
AUDIO: English Dolby Digital mono
SUBTITLES: English SDH
RUNTIME (TOTAL): 945 mins

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