Thank you for this, you do amazing work!! !! !!

Edge of the City was a great film starring Cassavetes and Poitier

A time when some people were serious and they actually had talent to back it up.

So special

Does anyone have a Shadow Shows of the Phantoscope DVD for sale ?? <3

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.

That close on the dog is probably a reference to Mad Max.

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.

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.

real

Hey, who’s that handsome customer (and definitely NOT a member of staff faking it) with the good taste in giant flying lizard films?

Lovely film

Unsung heros

Colombo (an all time classic) talking about his mate.

OH FRIGGIN LOL

I like this This is nice

Thank you! What a gem

Thanks for posting! Peter Falk is so eloquent.

Bobby Darin

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.

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.

You can tell it is fake but it is a good edit

Thank you for posting this

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.

lol

Talentless.

If you want to know how crap humanity is, observe the fact that this video of one of the greatest raconteurs of all time talking about one of the greatest directors of all time has 13 comments. I really can't wait to get out of here. Wall to wall morons.

this band is so marvelous

One Of My FAV bands ever

Great sound

This crew was really deep. Best part of mid-century America; real film counterculture.

I was sad when I learned my hero smoked--so did Cassavetes, who so sadly drank him self to death.

Wonderful to see any Pram videos of course but.....this sounds like the studio version on the LP actually dubbed over the live footage, as there is virtually no difference between the two whatsoever. What happened to the original live sound to this performance?

excelentes combinaciones de sonidos

super

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!

Aww, wow. Thanks for this. It's definitely earlier than 1998 though. In the film you talk about the shop having been open for 15 months, and I have a Sept 1995 diary that talks about going to Cinephilia. So even if it opened the week I wrote about it, the latest this could have been filmed is the end of 1996. (I was definitely in the moochers category, btw. I spent many hours hanging out on that mezzanine, reading (and occasionally handing down tapes when people came in!) while Taz worked downstairs. Happy days...)

Beautiful!!

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

revelational.

Oh Cinephilia! The only place in Brum you could rent "The Shape Of Things To Come" at 19:30 on a Saturday night.

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.

Where is Jerome?

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.

excellent!

lol

faabbb thx

Fantastic piece!

Thank you PRAM///Thank you!!!!

Sublime!