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2 days ago · Farrow (far left) with her family, 1950. Maria de Lourdes Villiers Farrow [2] was born February 9, 1945, [3] [4] in Los Angeles, California, the third child and eldest daughter of Australian film director John Farrow and his second wife, the Irish actress Maureen O'Sullivan. She is one of seven children, with older brothers Michael Damien ...
1 day ago · Going one step further, Spielberg compared the relationship between himself and the legendary director to one of the most important in Broadway history. “I also knew John very well. Where Oscar Hammerstein was the mentor to Stephen Sondheim, John Cassavetes was my mentor,” he said.
5 days ago · Robert Taylor, Julie London, John Cassavetes 28 votes This Western drama explores themes of loyalty, betrayal, and redemption as it follows the tumultuous relationship between a reformed gunslinger and his volatile younger brother.
2 days ago · Not only does this book chronicle in deep, loving detail the films, working methods, and world-view of one of the most important (yet underappreciated) filmmakers in American cinematic history, it is a manifesto, articulating and illustrating an entirely original and brain re-wiring theory of flimmaking, present in the films of John Cassavetes ...
5 hours ago · Background. The American independent film, prior to the 1980s and first half of the 1990s, was previously associated with Poverty Row b movies (e.g. Republic Pictures) exploitation films, avant-garde underground cinema (when it was known as the New American Cinema), social and political documentaries, experimental animated shorts (since the mid-1930s featuring works by pioneer animators Mary ...
5 days ago · Elaine May (born April 21, 1932, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.) is an American comedian, actor, writer, and director who is known for her sardonic wit, her caustic view of human nature, and her uncompromising fearlessness in all her work. May’s parents were Yiddish vaudevillians, and she spent much of her childhood traveling with her ...
