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RE: Err, well it's a very American sensibility

Posted by grinagog on March 19, 2009 at 21:47:52:
so it's almost bound to be more "clunky" than, say, more sophisticated European or UK efforts

From Husbands: ( scene in a London casino )

Falk: Y'think we're being bein' kinda LOUD ?
Gazarra: We're AMERICANS fer Chrissake...

Shakespeare it ain't, but it's a great scene + these guys are having a good time all through the film; scripted or no it's very very "Un-Hollywood" + Falk + Gazarra + Casavettes carry this film well

I cut Cassavettes slack because he was an independent filmmaker, which was a very uncommon thing to be in the USA at the time he did it
Now independent filmmaking is fashionable + commercial, but he was a pioneer, sailing in uncharted waters, doing his own thing in his own way + trying to push the envelope ( + on his own dime )

If you watch "Shadows" which has a Jazz soundtrack by Charles Mingus the film has a kind of be-bop sensibility, where he's not playing to please an audience as much as to put his story across in his way + it succeeds quite admirably

Warhol made independent films like "Trash" + "Heat" or "Flesh for Frankenstein" + these aren't anywhere near as much fun as Cassavetes films while being every bit as clunky....

Art: it's a pain in the ass, but someone has to do it

GW