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Twogether
Film Review April 30, 1993
by Marjorie Baumgarten
Description: Somewhere near the end of this indie feature about the lifestyles and foibles of the young and uncommitted, a character exasperatedly exclaims: “You can't change the world with a single...  
by Marjorie Baumgarten
"...This is not so much the fault of the actors. Nick Cassavetes (son of John Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands) and Brenda Bakke are good as the Venice, California pair, John and Allison, who meet, instantly make fast and furious love, get married, get divorced, get pregnant, and then get to know each other (in that order)..."
Night On Earth
Film Review May 22, 1992
by Marjorie Baumgarten
Description: Migratory souls in the dead of night... these are Jarmusch's people, his drawing card. In films like Mystery Train, Stranger Than Paradise, Down By Law and Permanent Vacation, Jarmusch has...
by Marjorie Baumgarten
"...Directed by: Jim Jarmusch. Starring: Winona Ryder, Gena Rowlands, Giancarlo Esposito, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Rosie Perez, Isaach De Bankolé, Béatrice Dalle and Roberto Benigni..."
Letters @ 3AM
Columns April 11, 2008
by Michael Ventura
Description: Snippets of conversations about movies from the Filmcraft collection
"...Gena Rowlands, asked what advice she'd give to young actors: "I would say not to take anybody's advice, including mine. You should just try to find your own feeling about something, because that's the only thing that separates one actor from another: how she or he feels about character..."
Broken English
Film Review July 13, 2007
by Marjorie Baumgarten
Description: Parker Posey gives a lovely, toned-down performance as Nora Wilder, the single, mid-30s Manhattanite at the heart of this romantic comedy.
by Marjorie Baumgarten
"...Directed by: Zoe Cassavetes. Starring: Parker Posey, Melvil Poupad, Drea de Matteo, Gena Rowlands, Justin Theroux, Tim Guinee, Peter Bogdanovich, Bernadette Lafont and Josh Hamilton..."
Paris, Je T'Aime
Film Review June 22, 2007
by Marrit Ingman
Description: Eighteen short films by an international who’s-who of filmmakers make up this omnibus celebrating the joys and sorrows of love and Paris, organized by neighborhood.
by Marrit Ingman
"...Directed by: Various. Starring: Fanny Ardant, Ben Gazzara, Gena Rowlands, Bob Hoskins, Steve Buscemi, Marianne Faithfull, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Barbet Schroeder, Willem Dafoe, Juliette Binoche, Miranda Richardson, Natalie Portman, Rufus Sewell, Gérard Depardieu, Elijah Wood, Emily Mortimer, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Nick Nolte..."
Letters @ 3AM
Columns June 8, 2007
by Michael Ventura
Description: Excerpts from Cassavetes Directs, Ventura's forthcoming book about the making of the film Love Streams
"...A year, no, it was two years ago, John produced a trilogy of plays written by himself and Ted Allan. Love Streams was Allan's, and what, if I am honest, do I retain of it? An airy Jon Voight never quite connecting with the material, while Gena Rowlands played with that same material as a child plays in fresh-fallen snow, totally involved, utterly captivating..."
The Skeleton Key
Film Review August 12, 2005
by Marjorie Baumgarten
Description: A top-notch cast is mostly wasted in this atmospheric but prosaic hoodoo spooker.
by Marjorie Baumgarten
"...Directed by: Iain Softley. Starring: Kate Hudson, Gena Rowlands, John Hurt, Peter Sarsgaard and Joy Bryant..."
The Devil's Rejects
Film Review July 22, 2005
by Marc Savlov
Description: A viciously entertaining psycho-road-movie-revenge-‘n’-wreckage-romance.
by Marc Savlov
"...Any film that reunites Rock 'n’ Roll High School alumnus Riff Randall (Soles) and Principal Togar (Woronov) is aces and eights in my book, but Rob Zombie’s follow-up to his disappointing debut, House of 1,000 Corpses, does more than just exhume a morgue full of genre favorites – it’s also the year’s most viciously entertaining psycho-road-movie-revenge-'n’-wreckage-romance. If that last hyphenate doesn’t tip you off that this warped rechristening of American Family Values isn’t for the squeamish, nothing will, so I’ll bite my tongue off and chew the fatted calves of Leslie Easterbrook, here seen channeling something akin to Gena Rowlands on mad, bad biker speed while William Forsythe gives us a remarkably accurate Warren Oates..."
DVD Watch
Screens Review October 8, 2004
by Taylor Holland
Description: Always popular in Europe and film school, Cassavetes was largely underappreciated in his lifetime and criticized for being boring, terse, and difficult, but these films are fresher than ever
"...Fiercely independent, he eschewed the Hollywood system, viewing studio films as shortsighted in comparison to his lifelike vision: never neat, never with a nice ending. The centerpiece of Cassavetes' films are the love and enthusiasm he inspired in a family of actors, including wife Gena Rowlands and pals Ben Gazzara, Seymour Cassel, and Peter Falk..."
The Notebook
Film Review June 25, 2004
by Kimberley Jones
Description: The love sap flows freely in this movie romance told in retrospect.
by Kimberley Jones
"...Directed by: Nick Cassavetes. Starring: Ryan Gosling, Rachel McAdams, James Garner, Gena Rowlands, James Marsden, Sam Shepard and Joan Allen..."
Taking Lives
Film Review March 19, 2004
by Marrit Ingman
Description: Angelina Jolie and Ethan Hawke star in this disappointing thriller.
by Marrit Ingman
"...Caruso. Starring: Angelina Jolie, Ethan Hawke, Gena Rowlands, Tchéky Karyo, Jean-Hugues Anglade and Olivier Martinez..."
Letters at 3am
Columns May 31, 2002
by Michael Ventura
Description: Learning about "manhood" from the movies.
"...The next great star-generation -- Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Jack Nicholson, Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave, Gena Rowlands, and their ilk -- were excellent actors with all the old qualities, but those qualities were now in the service of a paradox, an unanswered question, an incomplete sense of identity, which is the nerve center of their best performances. Their signature portrayals are of characters who are trying (unsuccessfully) to be two or three people at once..."
Letters at 3AM
Columns March 8, 2002
by Michael Ventura
Description: Michael Ventura observes the great John Cassavetes at work on the set of his next-to-last movie Love Streams.
"...A member of the Love Streams cast was enthusiastic about how John's work on VHS could finally be available to everybody. John shook his head with a firm and furious "no." Why? "They didn't come to see the pictures in the theatres so -- fuck 'em." (Either he relented later or the wisdom of his wife and collaborator, Gena Rowlands, prevailed..."
Cassavetes on Cassavetes
Screens Story November 23, 2001
by Marc Savlov
"...Cassavetes died before he was able to write his autobiography, a task he continually put off but never seemed to stop talking about. What he did leave, and what Ray Carney has compiled, are voluminous notes, written throughout his life -- from his early years as a struggling actor in New York City, where he founded the Variety Arts actors workshop with wife Gena Rowlands, to his frustration with the idea of selling out by inadvertently scoring some fly-by-night television gigs, to directing his breakthrough film, Shadows, in 1957..."
Legacy
Film Review July 5, 2001
by Marjorie Baumgarten
Description: Legacy is the first feature film made by Karen Arthur, a director who subsequently worked primarily in television, directing series such as Cagney & Lacey and Remington Steele before developing...
by Marjorie Baumgarten
"...Gradually, we become suspicious of all presentations of reality. Made around the same time as A Woman Under the Influence, Legacy explores realms of madness never even approached by the John Cassavetes/Gena Rowlands collaboration..."
Working Girls
Screens Story May 18, 2001
"...Gradually, we become suspicious of all presentations of reality. Made around the same time as A Woman Under the Influence, Legacy explores realms of madness never even approached by the John Cassavetes/Gena Rowlands collaboration..."
SXSW Film Picks
Screens Story March 9, 2001
by Kim Mellen
"...Neither is Charles Kiselyak's documentary on the director/writer/actor, which clocks in at a hefty 200 minutes. Interspersing interviews with actors like Gena Rowlands and Peter Falk with film clips, academic analyses, and Cassavetes' first-person narrative as read by Lenny Citrano, this is an intense, but ultimately rewarding, meditation on the life and work of Cassavetes..."
After a Fashion
Columns December 22, 2000
by Stephen MacMillan Moser
Description: It's perfect outside for staying in with a good book ...
especially one loaded with lots of pretty pictures ... of semi-nude
men ...
"...Previewed in Vogue, Aucoin's work took celebrities and made them up as other celebrities, with stunning results. The transformations include Susan Sarandon as Bette Davis, Amber Valetta as both Clark Gable and Carole Lombard, Martha Stewart as Veronica Lake, Gena Rowlands as Ava Gardner..."
Light of Day
Film Review October 12, 2000
by Marjorie Baumgarten
Description: Despite popular disregard for this Paul Schrader blend of family melodrama and rock & roll, some of us here at the Chronicle truly love this movie. Its heart and compassion...
by Marjorie Baumgarten
"...Starring: Michael J. Fox, Gena Rowlands, Joan Jett, Michael McKean, Thomas G..."
Gloria
Film Review January 29, 1999
by Steve Davis
Description: Sharon Stone looks like a hooker by way of drag queen in the ill-advised remake Gloria: You can't take your eyes off her, but for all the wrong reasons. Dolled...
by Steve Davis
"...The premise here is the same as in John Cassavetes' 1982 film of the same name -- a gangster's moll is on the lam, with an orphaned boy in tow -- and the film, like its predecessor, is little more than a vehicle for its blonde, brassy star. (Gena Rowlands' turn as the title character was less histrionic and more assured than Stone's performance, although nowhere as perversely amusing.) In contrast to the original, however, the heart-of-gold stuff is laid on thick in the remake; Gloria starts off strutting her stuff, waving around guns, and driving through barricades, only to end up blathering like a baby upon discovering that she has maternal instincts..."
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