I was on a 2.5 hour voice chat with 
today where we talked about all kinds of things. It's awesome to bump heads with this guy ( and we're not even rhinos )
At a certain point, I came to talk about movies, in this case the work of John Cassavetes. Apparently,
John Cassavetes is considered to be one of the very first North American indie filmmakers, who was making his own stuff outside of the studio system. He also crowdfunded, back at a time when crowdfunding hardly existed. He acted in other people's films to enable himself to produce and direct his own work.
I love his work and admire his work ethic. He's an inspiration for me as a ( microbudget ) filmmaker and his realistic style, telling stories about real people and evoking these extremely powerful emotions in the audience, are a proof to me that you don't need a big budget or special effects to tell a great story and make an impact. If you've never seen a film by John Cassavetes, you've missed out on something great. You still got time to make up for that though...
John Cassavetes was married for more than half of his life ( he passed away at the young age of 59 ) to the awesome Gena Rowlands, who acted in a handful of his films.
Today, while browsing through the content of MUBI, the streaming site that I discussed in my post from a week ago: are you tired of Netflix and into arthouse, I discovered a film by John Cassavetes. A film that I liked a lot but had forgotten about. A lesser known film by Cassavetes, starring Gena Rowlands.
If you've never seen a film by this director, you might wanna start out by giving this a watch. I'm sure you won't regret it.
It can be found on MUBI.com , by clicking on the link below:
Minnie and Moskowitz - John Cassavetes ( 1971)
Here's its trailer:
More on John Cassavetes work in future posts...