Great stories from Peter Falk, back in '93. From a bunch of VHS tapes that I'm currently archiving - I haven't seen this elsewhere. Sorry about the quality and occasional tracking.
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@frimports Жыл бұрын
Cassavetes made independent films when such a thing wasn’t done, a true pioneer and his films are so unique. They are comfortably unsettling is the best I can say.
@missdee49278 жыл бұрын
The great Peter Falk (one of the best actors of all time) speaks so beautifully about John Cassavetes. I found everything he said here fascinating and moving.
@davidsanderson59183 жыл бұрын
Peter could talk about what he had to eat yesterday and I'd be riveted. One of the great great great storytellers.
@LenHummelChannel7 жыл бұрын
Ben, Peter, John, - they lived it fully: with all the slop and the contradictions: they pretty much lived every minute. Cassavetes was truly a unique talent.
@Jmacplus18212 жыл бұрын
R.i.p. Cassavetes, gazzara, falk.
@BarryPennock3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for posting! Peter Falk is so eloquent.
@deb74575 жыл бұрын
I’ve always been a huge fan of John Cassavetes! He had such a New York, early 1960s kind of coolness to him that fascinated me. He, along with Falk, embodied that, for me!
@tarnopol4 жыл бұрын
This crew was really deep. Best part of mid-century America; real film counterculture.
@redmustangredmustang11 ай бұрын
Pete, John, and Ben were truly great friends. Hell they even did a interview on the Dick Cavett show and they were wasted out of thei rminds. Sadly all that drinking and partying came back to bite John in the ass with cirrhosis.
@robertmcgowan41494 ай бұрын
Thank you for this, you do amazing work!! !! !!
@LenHummelChannel11 жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing this. he was a fascinating & complex man & artist. crazy. ... but crazy like a fox.
@Valkonnen8 ай бұрын
A time when some people were serious and they actually had talent to back it up.
@mdweinberg6011 жыл бұрын
brilliant and moving.
@trents35153 жыл бұрын
interesting. my reaction to some of the Cassavetes stuff was to consider him a brute rather than an artist. like a blind man continually telling others what he sees, i figured he couldn't really feel, which is why he was so over the top in everything he did. now, after listening to Falk (truly, one of the greatest actors of his generation - in part, it seems, due to the challenging influence of Cassavetes), i must trust his judgment. Falk said Cassavetes felt love and saw with unusual clarity the ways in which people could fall short of realizing it. so, Cassavetes maybe did actually feel TOO much. that, possibly, could explain the drinking, too, although there are other possibilities there (like an addictive personality or someone dead inside who needs to feel constantly stimulated). provided that Falk is giving the straight skinny here, i guess Cassavetes was a bit of a madman (conceded by Falk when he said Cassavetes housed everything within him in the extremist form) like i thought but also an idealist, too. it has long been apparent to me that Cassavetes was a force (clearly, his personality even overcame his own actors in an uncomfortable way as they can end up sounding like him) but maybe there was some - or a lot - of soul behind it all. i don't know. all i know is he was on the right track in trying to elicit authentic expression from his actors. everything else is much less interesting. i feel the same way when taking pictures, for instance - if it's staged, it's worthless. Cassavetes saying that he would rather work in a sewer than do a film he didn't like does speak to a deep feeling of regard for his profession and his output, which is a sign of a talented individual. so, much respect to Falk and Cassavetes. may they both RIP. they accomplished a lot, which i still enjoy to this day. i may spend years more trying to understand all this.
@geoff64013 жыл бұрын
Thank you for posting this
@mattstovall30753 жыл бұрын
Thank you! What a gem
@TomandAmyinthePI5 ай бұрын
Edge of the City was a great film starring Cassavetes and Poitier
@michaelg.golden7327 Жыл бұрын
I think he improved all his movies like Faces etc. which seem wildly disjointed but fun. Nice interpretation by Falk of his movies and his life by a good friend who probably new his intentions best.
@pontiacgrandprix7337 жыл бұрын
Best of the best, they were great friends, did you ever see in the Sunday paper they do a Q&A with sports stars and the question is 3 dinner companions, who's your 3 people you'd like to have a meal with, My choices , Cassavetes, Falk, Gazzara
@karenschneiderman71803 жыл бұрын
and Gena
@davidsanderson59183 жыл бұрын
I don't think there's be much eating done at that dinner party! :) Have you seen em all together on the Dick Cavett show?
@pontiacgrandprix7333 жыл бұрын
@@davidsanderson5918 I believe your correct, I’ll eat, they can drink, get more stories out of them, I’ll be the designated driver, one of them has to have had a Rolls or a Bentley when they were amongst us (alive)!
@ShakespeareCafe3 жыл бұрын
Great filmmaker, no doubt. I enjoyed Gena Rowland’s portrayal in Woman Under the Influence but in Opening Night her character was overly agonized. I could only sit thru half the movie.
@ellas92062 жыл бұрын
Colombo (an all time classic) talking about his mate.
@karenschneiderman71803 жыл бұрын
I loved them all in every Cassavetes movie and in some other things. They might be an interesting dinner group but if they got too drunk I would call them a cab and throw them out, rather than not inviting them at all.
@juniorjames70763 жыл бұрын
You invite that Cassavetes crowd to your place for drinks, I have news for you, your placed is getting wrecked!! And your neighbors will be calling the cops on you...ha ha ha!
@iggyspirit7 жыл бұрын
revelational.
@dstuart29184 жыл бұрын
I was sad when I learned my hero smoked--so did Cassavetes, who so sadly drank him self to death.
@forreal2454 жыл бұрын
You must be VERY young to be "sad" about an era when ALL smoked/drank & most were unaware of health risks.