I love Gena Rowlands reflection in the mirror.

@mikess56

3 жыл бұрын

Hey Bumdog!

@BumdogTorres

3 жыл бұрын

@@mikess56 Hiya!

@robertmcgowan4149

6 ай бұрын

Beautiful lady, classic Hollywood looks!!

A director that actually respects his audience is such a rare and beautiful thing.

Gotta love how John and Gena are holding hands up until the moment John needs both of them to articulate his rant lol

Now in the industry we need people like Cassavetes more than ever

@CocoonClub360

8 жыл бұрын

+Joe Nicholls We have some of this sort.

@lightningbolt4451

8 жыл бұрын

I want you to tell me why...

@missdee4927

7 жыл бұрын

Yeah he would hated Tarantino's films. He would have thought all that cartoonish violence was disgusting.

@paulkitt5599

4 жыл бұрын

Point well made I wonder how cassavettes would feel the state of the film industry today

@jacobadams5924

3 жыл бұрын

@@CocoonClub360 who?

I got rejected from a film club for wanting to show unconventional films because "It isn't what the students want" now John Cassavetes has made me feel good about calling that individual a coward.

I just need to listen to this speech every morning, before I do anything else.

@yogeshraghumudri1902

3 жыл бұрын

true that

Gena’s facial expressions say everything.

the way Gena Rowlands looks at him says it all

What an inspiring and passionate figure was John Cassavetes.

@cliveedwards2958

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for making the point..from all I have read about the man, you are absolutely right...and I have made a point of studying his performances and also his behind the camera work, and again, he is totally absorbed in his subject...it seems that now, many years after he has gone, he is being reassessed..a very passionate man

God, all that laughter at the end. It's like being around Cassavetes was actually like being in one of his movies...

I bet Gena jumped his bones immediately after this press conference.

"Come on, baby! Show me something!"

Cassavettes is so inspiring. And I love that he is not afraid to say that his work is fantastic, his collaborators are fantastic and he's fantastic. As a writer trying to make his way in LA, where there is this subtle, but powerful disdain for anyone who truly BELIEVES in themselves and knows their worth (especially women and POCS), this is really empowering to see.

@VictorLugosi

6 ай бұрын

POC? What? Are you on meth? There’s barely any good actors in that category and they get roles for being black, not talent.. they are the problem..

Wow, I love his passion. I also love how he includes the people that helped make his films when he talks about his films. Seems like such a genuine guy.

Sadly, it's still relevant. The average moviegoer doesn't want more. Look at the films dominating the box office.

@Redclxxd

3 жыл бұрын

Seems even worse now a days.

I love you John, you gave me hope.

He was such a maverick. His films were personal and challenging.

@InfotainmentScan

3 жыл бұрын

Indeed, he was a rider on the original Straight Talk Express.

Brilliant artist, there’s nobody like Cassavetes in film. Can you imagine how he would have felt about all of this super hero crap being produced today? That’s a tirade I would have loved to hear.

@stephenpitkin5492

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you. That superhero stuff is so psychotically oppressive.

@antonioHR23

2 жыл бұрын

he woulda killed kevin feige

@ellas9206

2 жыл бұрын

'psychotically oppressive' pretty much sums it. As for the tirade, one shudders......but same here.

@peterwassink

4 ай бұрын

Luckily there are still filmmakers around that are inspired by his stuff and work in his footsteps so to speak... kzread.info/dash/bejne/pZiW0qRuha-tYdY.html

Gena's loving this.

@missdee4927

8 жыл бұрын

I know. You can tell. lol. I wonder if she was turned on by John here. I would be. That passion is sexy.

John Cassavetes was ahead of his time. He is 100 percent better than Hollywood. A brilliant artist and Director. Will not watch movies or TV today because it is corporate junk Television sucks!! You are so right John.

The man was a manic, artistic genius. He has been forgotten. Well kids, keep your CGI junk, this man knew how to put life and emotion into film.

Ben and Gena talking to each other on the side... Just waiting for that finale. I'm sure she had heard this speech a thousand times haha the greatest

40 years later we now live in a world with globalized superhero movies being pushed as must see works of art.

" This is a stupid town" starts the rant.

the way she looks at him though

John Cassavetes, a 100% passionate and talented Greek! Brilliant director!

hahahaha, I just love how he culminates all those feeling and that speech into two words "Television Sucks!" Everyone there laughs like my god we believe you but no one is going to see this film just based on this interview and what you said. Hahaha, Man is a legend indeed! Did not give any fucks whatsoever!

Macdonald Cassavetes, what a guy.

@cookie5335

Ай бұрын

Is that his dad

Tell it like it is, JC!

Let's revive cinema as an art.

How could someone possibly dislike this?

OPENING NIGHT is a truly amazing film! I was glued to the screen for the whole 2.5 hours, and just felt electrified and exhilarated after it all ended. Pretty much all of his movies make me feel like that, though, but especially that one. His directorial work contains so much confidence, emotion, enthusiasm, subtlety, intelligence, and genuine fascination with humanity. I wish he was alive to see what an impact his work has made, although he's still hugely underrated.

sincerity personified

thanks everyone for your comments. it's good to know his words are still connecting!

PART 2: I just read, in a Ray Carney book, about an interview Cassavetes had with Pauline Kael, in which Cassavetes told Kael to leave half-way through the interview because she did not appreciate the "artistic side" of his work. Remember that Kael was one of the leading critics at the time, and doing a "good" interview would have gave him so much more attention to his virtually unseen films. He continued doing this in so many other forms of promotion (like this interview).

@missdee4927

2 жыл бұрын

Pauline Kael used to rip his films to shreds.

@TrevorKingKwong

2 жыл бұрын

@@missdee4927 Funny in retrospect, but probably not at the time.

I miss human beings like this.

I love his sincerity. "We're terrific, we're sensational." It's pure passion, and so inspiring.

Thank you so much for putting this up!

Cassavetes never cheats his audience. I wish more directors were like him. I agree with his comments about Hollywood. I think the majority of movie goers can’t understand his art today and it’s a shame. He really gave us true art.

Cassavetes was a genius. When I started NYU film school in the early '90s, most of my fellow students knew nothing about Cassavetes. Granted, most of his films were not easily available on video then, but he was well-known as an actor and they hadn't seen any films he acted in. This led to an expression I often repeated: "This is what they let into NYU?" I also noticed that the other students had no fire in their bellies - film is art and artists are passionate. Look how passionate Cassavetes is here. Did he have a few drinks in him? Perhaps but he was totally lucid and coherent and obsessed with art. TV sucks now but back then there were actually a lot of good shows on the air. And he was right about "Opening Night," which is his best film after "Husbands."

thanks for posting this. just read this transcript in Cassavetes on Cassavetes. LOVE HIM

In 1975 I became TV free. My girlfriend and I hosted a card tournament among our friends and the prize was our TV. One of the best decisions of my life.

@NostalgiNorden

Жыл бұрын

And here you are on youtube.........

I watch this everyday for inspiration and motivation. Thank you, John!

John was a man of conviction. I believe he was devoted to everything. His wife, children, friends and his art.

This should, no, MUST be shown EVERYDAY in every commissary of every studio in Hollywood. In every home of every talentless, overpaid, executive in Hollywood. In every film school in the country. Wise words from one of the greatest directors and actor of American Cinema.

John is right. He's a genius and an inspiration!

This is one absolutely beautiful moment with Cassavetes! He really is a prophet, and dynamic. I would have done anything to help work on one of his films, every one is a masterpiece for me.

I wish someday make something that makes me feel so proud like he was

Yes, Mr. Cassavetes was and is amazing. Corageous, brilliant, passionate, committed, talented and dedicated. This interview shows his frustration at the system better than any clip I've ever seen, and time has borne out his anger: movies have become unwatchable, and OPENING NIGHT disappeared without a trace, only to have a few revivals after the director's death. He's right about his own film: OPENING NIGHT is a masterpiece.

One of my favorite directors. His opinions are quite strong and powerful. Love his independent spirit as a human being and a filmmaker as well.

Thanx so much for posting. I loved all of John Cassavete films. He was a brilliant directer. I admired him very much..

Love the Man!!! Long live John.

“You’ll never get another one like this” So amazing, the best to ever do it

Just watched "Opening Night" Gifted director, special actors. John is so right about the industry and its worse now. Thank for sharing.

Gotta love Seymour Cassel's hearty laugh at the end.

Brave people, brave man. Thank you John ... Thank you for posting this.

One man can make difference. Finally one man tells hollywood what it is and now we can see more of what he was talking about. Tv sucks movies suck everything about the business sucks. You will meet the most uncreative people in the business. It’s all bullshit. And that’s why most of them need to get the fuck outta there and start putting in some people who are qualified to get into the minds of the people for two hours and enlighten them in some way. Some people think it’s just movies no it’s shaping the minds of the young so I think that’s an important profession which should take lives more seriously then just another behind on the seat.

lol You know, if John hadn't added that last line about television, this may have gotten on the air and many more people may have seen Opening Night. Kind of reminds me of Patrice O'neal, the comedian, who--if he submitted just a little bit to the system--would have found such a wider audience. But he didn't. And I think we should respect both these men for that, because as easy it is to say: keeping your dignity and individuality in show business--no, LIFE--is one of the hardest things to do.

@nafdar6

6 жыл бұрын

I’m huge fan of both artists, and I’m really impressed at parallels you’ve drawn from them. They can both be summed up as artists who fought tirelessly for the integrity of their work. In a way, They’re both the main character from “Killing of a Chinese Bookie”.

@tobro3000

4 жыл бұрын

Nailed it about John & Patrice!

I appreciate original creative expression, so of course I loved his work! Really loved HUSBANDS! Loved his laugh and the ending here!

He is soooo right. But nothing has changed. Hollywood has a formula and you don't change that formula. Also, people don't want to see a movie that makes them think. They just want bubble gum for the mind.

One of the greatest interviews I've ever seen.

He IS amazing and inspiring. Interesting use of the term "sissy" here.

inspiración pura... gracias por compartir este video

I love all of Cassavetes films, including Opening Night!

time magazine had the audacity to kill god.

Saw Opening Night yesterday evening- truly amazing. Going to look for his other films now

What an intelligent, passionate, handsome, sexy man.

4 people disliked this video because of the watermark on the screen

If you like John see Tempest. It's great.

I always think of Cassavetes, Ben Gazzara and Peter Falk as brothers. There is something uniquely similar about those three. They were very close friends.

Love and miss this man!

Love you John, you are missed.

that was great, really loved it. as he said, the movie WAS inspiring and his words REMAIN inspiring. thank you. would love to convince a fellow teacher to show this.

the king

Hear hear

This is a good example of why I love John.

this is fuckin' awesome. tell it like it is. wake up.

Great man, great filmmaker way ahead of his time.

Preach it, brother.

i wonder what peter falk would say to that final statement. HA!

This mentality needs to rise , awaken creative artists, be original.

I love Gena Rowland's reflection in the mirror as well. She is so in love with her husband and listens to him with such admiration and respect. Cassavetes and Rowlands were up there and as legendary as Bogart and Bacall. So classy , intelligent and suave , and entertaining and beautiful people , inside and out. I loved those two and i miss them. Gena just passed away recently and i am happy that she and John are together in Heaven but i am sad for the entetainment industry because Cassavetes and Rowlands are gone now and with the Lord in Heaven , who is responsible for their talent and beauty. I hope that i am able to meet them when i get to Heaven. Thank you Lord for John and Gena and the impact that they have made in peoples lives.

@Axelized

3 жыл бұрын

She's still alive.

If someone could kindly post the full interview that would be grand.

i'm in love with him!!!!!!!!!!!!!

his rant nails it ,even more now than then ....i can feel the cosmo vitteli here

Thanks for uploading this - the man should have been paid just for living.

I wonder if he saw Star Wars that same year.. What would he have thought? He's completely right tho! I love this man.

Wonderful!!!!

Cassavetes resented the time he spent in television, even his own series "Johnny Staccato". While the critics acclaimed it, "Staccato" only lasted one season. For the most part, he thought doing TV was a necessary evil, allowing him to make enough money to move over into directing his own films.

@cbalducc

2 жыл бұрын

There were several feature films he acted in. He was a pretty good actor.

What film exactly is he referring to? Btw, I think if he were alive today he'd probably feel differently about television, because of cinema having become even bigger than it was in his time and TV productions being relatively smaller, hence less monumental, + in TV productions unknown and less stellar actors have a better chance of getting on with their job of acting and making a living, small as it may be. What's superb with Cassavetes input in cinema is that the sheer urgency and transparency of his vision has no time for anything else other than expressing the truth. In that respect he's more of a writer/poet/play-write than a cinematographer in the technical understanding of the job. He's all about expression and little or none about the essence of film producing technique as with J.L. Godard.

" Perfect love casts out all fear"......feelin it JC....

Beautiful.

Hell Yes! His words hold true today more than ever. I'm sick right now with all the crap that's out. Amen Cassavetes!

... That's what it's like being sick of stupidity around - John was open and brave, no compromise... And that is why his films are beautiful.

where is the rest of this interview? it used to be on youtube -- it was about 45 minutes long but now it's gone!

opening night is so incredible...definitely one of my favorite films. cassavetes is so brilliant

Brilliant clip. Everything John says ring true.

Preach it John, preach it.

I wonder what John's opinion of Ben in Road House would have been.

Amen...