Best Cassavetes movie

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think "hipsters" might also remember this one fondly too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yWEs74FsIM

buzza, Saturday, 4 February 2012 01:47 (twelve years ago) link

the NYT obit didn't even mention road house and had quite a bit about the cassavetes films. so culture is not yet dead yay.

wad of baloney (Eisbaer), Saturday, 4 February 2012 02:09 (twelve years ago) link

nor Gilbert Gottfried's bit about aliens who land and ask him "Ben Gazzara's a good actor, why doesn't he have a series?"

Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 4 February 2012 02:20 (twelve years ago) link

he is so godam sexy in anatomy of a murder

flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Saturday, 4 February 2012 04:42 (twelve years ago) link

yeah, wow, ben gazzara. i never thought much of chinese bookie, but he's great in it. the penis scribbling scene is my favorite gag in the big lebowski. i remember him seeming very warm and likable in an avclub interview a couple years back:

http://www.avclub.com/articles/ben-gazzara,35105/

hes one of those guys, even though i havent seen a ton of his stuff, where the stuff that you do see really sticks with you. like anatomy of a murder. curious about his italian language work!

Hungry4Ass, Saturday, 4 February 2012 05:36 (twelve years ago) link

also I knew he had done TennWilliams onstage in the '50s, but did not realize he was the first Brick in Cat on Broadway.

Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 4 February 2012 07:00 (twelve years ago) link

One of my favorite actors, sad he died of the kind of pancreatic cancer. Loved both Husbands and Chinese Bookie. Loved him here too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-dClTQ7yPc

JacobSanders, Saturday, 4 February 2012 07:15 (twelve years ago) link

oh shit :(

r.i.p. original Cosmo Vitelli, you and cassavetes pulled off some magic there. I even got seriously excited and sentimental to see you and Gena hangin out in that Paris omnibus a few years ago. godspeed.

Cosmo Vitelli, Saturday, 4 February 2012 10:26 (twelve years ago) link

he is so godam sexy in anatomy of a murder

when he and Lee Remick drive off and Jimmy Stewart gives them a look that says "I'll be seeing your ass in court again soon" while also envying the fuck out of them.

Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 4 February 2012 13:31 (twelve years ago) link

i remember him seeming very warm and likable

years and years ago I dated his editor and was lucky enough to have a few dinners with Mr. Gazzara and I can tell you that he was incredibly warm, and generous, and an all-around lovely man. Drank me under the table, unsurprisingly.

all the other twinks with their fucked up dicks (billy), Sunday, 5 February 2012 17:46 (twelve years ago) link

he definitely seemed like a super-great guy. very sad. :(

flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Monday, 6 February 2012 03:19 (twelve years ago) link

also can we just take a moment and look at lee remick? no objections? OK:

http://i2.listal.com/image/1242359/600full-lee-remick.jpg

http://static.life.com/ugc/091/ugc1157091/watermarkcomp.jpg

flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Monday, 6 February 2012 03:21 (twelve years ago) link

one year passes...

which version of Chinse Bookie do I screen: the 108- or 135-minute cut?

A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 27 June 2013 17:37 (ten years ago) link

four years pass...

108

flappy bird, Thursday, 21 June 2018 05:18 (five years ago) link

tf @ these results, this needs to be redone

flappy bird, Thursday, 21 June 2018 05:18 (five years ago) link


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