John Cassavetes Five Films The Criterion Collection Shadows Faces A Woman Under the Influence The Killing of a

John Cassavetes was a genius, a visionary, and the progenitor of American independent film, but that doesn’t begin to get at the generosity of his art. A former theater actor fascinated by the power of improvisation, Cassavetes brought his search for truth in performance to the screen. The five films in this collection—all of which the director maintained total control over by financing them himself and making them outside the studio system—are electrifying and compassionate creations, populated by all manner of humanity: beatniks, hippies, businessmen, actors, housewives, strippers, club owners, gangsters, children. Cassavetes has often been called an actor’s director, but this body of work—even greater than the sum of its extraordinary parts—shows him to be an audience’s director. FIVE-BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES New high-definition digital restorations of all five films, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks New high-definition digital restoration of Cassavetes’s 108-minute 1978 version of The Killing of a Chinese Bookie A Constant Forge: The Life and Art of John Cassavetes (2000), a 200-minute documentary by Charles Kiselyak New interviews with actor Lelia Goldoni and associate producer Seymour Cassel about Shadows Silent footage from the Cassavetes-Lane Drama Workshop, from which Shadows emerged Restoration demonstration for Shadows Alternate eighteen-minute opening sequence for Faces Episode of the French television series Cinéastes de notre temps from 1968, dedicated to Cassavetes Making “Faces,” a

Key details: Is Discontinued By Manufacturer: No | MPAA rating: NR (Not Rated) | Product Dimensions: 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 15.52 ounces | Media Format: NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen | Run time: 12 hours and 26 minutes | Release date: October 22, 2013 | Actors: Anthony Ray, Ben Gazzara, Gena Rowlands, Hugh Hurd, Lelia Goldoni | Subtitles: : English | Studio: Criterion Collection | Number of discs: 5

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