by shael stolberg From his first role in the 1956 drama Crime in the Streets through his directorial debut in 1959 Shadows, John Cassavetes was, as the old saying goes, a force to be reckoned with. As an actor you could not keep your eyes off him whether he is playing the crooked Chicago hood […]
from tiff Now firmly entrenched in film history as the “father of American independent cinema,” John Cassavetes was in his day one of the most controversial, even reviled figures in American film, regularly lambasted by both the Hollywood establishment and the mainstream press. After attaining considerable success as an actor in studio films, Cassavetes bit […]
