Xan cassavetes biography of martin

A physicist friend told me that there is an adage in science that you don't convert your opponents; you wait for them to die.

Xan cassavetes biography of martin

A discovery that is baffling or unintelligible to one generation is accepted as obvious or even inevitable by the next. I thought of that many times as I edited my Cassavetes on Cassavetes (Faber and Faber/Farrar, Straus and Giroux) and Shadows (British Film Institute Publishing).

John Cassavetes tells the story of his life and work in both books, based on interviews that I and others did with him.

Part of the research involved reading the reviews of Cassavetes' films that appeared when they were first released in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. The experience was an eye-opener. To call them negative would be an understatement.

Pauline Kael called Faces "dumb, crudely conceived, and badly performed;" Variety jeered at Minnie and Moskowitz as "oppressive," "irritating," "shrill," "numbing," and "in