Example sentences for: cassavetes

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  • Cassavetes would rejoice (maybe not at those two movies--but think how he would have welcomed the freedom of a digital video camera).

  • Anyone who has seen Cassavetes' film can imagine Lumet's and save eight bucks" ( Los Angeles Times ). Lawrence Van Gelder is alone in support, calling it "smoother, funnier, more suspenseful and more endearing" than the first film ( New York Times ). (Compare Rowlands' almost tasteful suit in the poster for the 1980 film with Sharon Stone's racy bustier in the current version.)

  • And as long as we're asking annoying questions: Where are all the great films of John Cassavetes, most of which have not yet been released on video?

  • A movie by the son, Nick Cassavetes, from a screenplay by the father, John Cassavetes, who died in 1989.

  • Pans for director Sidney Lumet's remake of a 1980 John Cassavetes film about a tough moll whose heart gets melted by a youngster who falls into her charge: "Easily qualifies as the most tired, unexciting mob movie in recent history" (Godfrey Cheshire, Daily Variety ). Of Sharon Stone as the title character, played by Gena Rowlands in the original, Jack Mathews says: "It's not so much a bad performance as an unnecessary one.


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