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John Cassavetes......

Posted by afilado on March 19, 2009 at 09:03:23:
...a ponderous bore as a director and screenwriter. Only a bit less so as an actor.

His erratic methods - especially his screenplays - are in opposition to the encouragement of actorly improvisation. He is a heavy-handed, over-controlling manager whose ego appears selfishly stamped on every work of his I've seen.

"Gloria" is the most recent lump viewed, and the one which finally inspired my present comments.

I can't speak to the importance of his philosophical contribution as a contrarian filmmaker, only to his body of work as paradoxical, graceless, brutish art when considered as separate from the historical continuum.

I can admire THAT he worked and produced. It's just that his work is categorically unappealing to me and I put his professional arc in a category with the likes of, oh........... Jerry Lewis.

Somebody tell me what I'm missing. Maybe it's a French thing. ;-)