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What are your thoughts on Killers of The Flower Moon? I just watched it yesterday and I didn't expect to love it this much.

Cassavetes as director held fragments of life like a collector of emotion is he studied much anymore ? and gena Rowland was some how a muse that perfection overlooked ChatGPT said: ChatGPT John Cassavetes remains an influential figure in cinema, often revered as a pioneer of independent filmmaking and a master of capturing the raw essence of human emotion. While his films may not dominate popular discourse, his work is studied in film schools and appreciated by cinephiles who value his unpolished, deeply personal style. Cassavetes' ability to portray life in fragments, as you aptly noted, comes from his focus on process over plot. His films-like A Woman Under the Influence (1974) or Faces (1968)-don’t always follow traditional story arcs but instead dwell in the emotional complexities and contradictions of everyday existence. This fragmented, almost voyeuristic style was ahead of its time, influencing directors like Martin Scorsese, Noah Baumbach, and the Safdie brothers, who embrace improvisation and emotional immediacy in their work. Gena Rowlands: The Muse and the Masterpiece Gena Rowlands, Cassavetes’ wife and frequent collaborator, was far more than a muse; she was a co-creator of the emotional landscapes he sought to explore. Her performances, particularly in A Woman Under the Influence and Opening Night (1977), are staggering in their depth and authenticity. Rowlands brought an emotional honesty and vulnerability that elevated Cassavetes’ films, making her one of the most lauded actresses of her generation. Yet, as you suggest, she often flew under the radar of mainstream recognition, despite receiving multiple Academy Award nominations and widespread critical acclaim. Her ability to channel the raw, chaotic energy Cassavetes sought was unparalleled. She could embody fragility and strength simultaneously, creating characters that felt entirely real and heartbreakingly human. Is He Studied Anymore? Cassavetes’ films are a cornerstone of discussions around independent cinema and naturalistic acting, especially in academic settings. His legacy is particularly tied to: Theatrical intimacy: His films often feel like stage plays come to life, with long, improvised scenes that prioritize character over spectacle. Acting as essence: His direction pushed actors to explore their limits, creating a rawness rarely seen on screen. Independent production: Cassavetes financed many of his films himself, blazing a trail for independent filmmakers. His films may not attract mass viewership today, but their influence persists, both in the DNA of indie films and in the reverence of critics and scholars. Similarly, Rowlands’ performances continue to be cited as benchmarks of screen acting. In a way, Cassavetes and Rowlands embody the paradox of art and recognition: deeply admired by those who seek it out, but often overlooked by broader audiences who favor polish over authenticity. Their partnership and work remain a testament to uncompromising, heartfelt filmmaking.

good video well done ive been watching Cassavetes and studying him recently

This is the movie I recommend to anyone who says that True Romance has Dennis Hopper's best performance

Fantastic interpretations of scenes and their dissonant cadence.

The Departed is a modern classic? I can't recall a single thing about it.

Fantastic video, and I appreciate you touching on a number of similar films & directors to check out. It is also my favorite film, and I always appreciate hearing others try to articulate what makes it special; I think you did a great job of that here. I rewatched Yi Yi the other day (hence my finding this video), and the thing that's currently on my mind is, for lack of a better word, the afterglow of the film. Each time I've watched it, I was left with a deeper appreciation for life, the people in it, and the connections between people, for at least a week or two. I can't think of many other films that have that effect- not even A Brighter Summer Day, which I consider to be almost equally good.

An excellent review of this brilliant film, just marred by some needless misandry towards the end.

Very happy to have new recommendations! Thanks for all you do🙌

Forgot "New York, New York" but for me personally that ranks dead last of all Scorsese movies ive watched. Robert DeNiro looks so uninterested in that Movie. Just phones it in throughout. And apparently Marty and Liza Minelli binged on Coke throughout the making of the entire film. Probably why the entire film looks like someone strung out on Drugs made it. Its the only movie of his I can say was not a good film. But interesting list. His filmography plays out like the Coen Bros as individual peoples list will vary. Ive heard someone say They were bored to death with Goodfellas and Kundun was his best film. But anyways, my list (Top 10) 1- Taxi Driver 2- Goodfellas 3- Wolf of Wall Street 4- Mean Streets 5- Raging Bull 6- The King of Comedy 7- Cape Fear 8- The Color of Money 9- Bring Out the Dead 10- The Departed

As someone who just finished gravity's rainbow yesterday and bought Yi Yi to watch later today, the start of this video was a real damn curveball

Since Gena Rowlands passed away, I have been watching as many of her movies I can find, and I have truly come to fall in love with the work she and John Cassavetes did together. Their movies are just relentless, draining and the characters are so beautifully flawed and sad and complex, in a way we rarely see today. I love how we, the viewers, are just forced to watch them at their lowest, experience every single emotion with them. It's stunning. I very much liked this video, and I'm so happy I found it! Thank you!

you can't make a clip on JC and the put in Long clips from other films! I'm outta here!

Nick as a character is one of the those characters i never want to be. Throughly detestable in his own way, Nick is infuriating. I was happy that one woman side character called him shit.

MINNIE & MOSCOVITZ ; A CHILD IS WAITING also need a reassessment. Suggest go ahead; not much talked about. Buy the Ray Carney book, still the best/most analyt7cal ...

Really outstanding analysis and appreciation for the unique brilliance of Cassavetes, Rowlands, Falk and Gazzara. My father took me to see Husbands when it came out in 1970. I was 12. 😐 My dad wasn't very good at having regular conversations with me. But to this day many years later I am convinced that he brought me along to this very powerful and difficult study of masculinity to prepare me for my eventual life as a man. Crazy, huh? ❤

Jesus. This guy just took a shit all over cape fear. 🤦‍♂️

I have a very fuzzy 4 year old memory of this movie making me extremely emotional...maybe scared? Or really sad? I was really young and then my mom got rid of all the VHS Tapes ( irony?)

I was in love with her when I was a kid.

Hey that’s my Collider article at 3:32!

*This was filmed in my home city, Vancouver Canada. This is 1 of 4 Cult Punk Rock themed movies shot here....* 1. Out Of The Blue (1980) 2. Ladies & Gentlemen The Fabulous Stains (1982) 3. Terminal City Ricochet (1990) 4. Hard Core Logo (1995) *and concert films like....* 1. David Bowie - Serious Moonlight (1984) 2. Loverboy - Live In Vancouver Canada 1983 (1984) 3. Metallica - Through The Never (2013) 4. D.O.A. - To Hell & Back (2013)

Will you explain the exclusion of New York, New York, please?

I’m gobsmacked by the insight and analysis shown here- chin chin, sir!

Love the chill vibe of your “what I watched” videos. You had so many great films, so I’ll just add that ‘Starman’ is a gorgeous film, and Allen should have been a star. So, are you gonna keep teasing us with that WH box, or are we going to talk about ‘Heart of Glass’?

Nostalgia is that one with the beautiful shot of the house on fire at the beginning? I can barely finish that one, the weirdest and inaccessible Tarkovsky that I ever seen

I haven't thought about this movie for a really long time. This really puts it into context. I think they eventually went to Mars for some reason?

this is so weird. About two months ago I saw an episode (never heard of the show before). I looked it up and saw a youtube short showing that the main actor spent a long time in addiction recovery. I needed to know more about this show now and gained a weird hyperfixation on it. The moral of the entire Mcgee and Me series is to discourage kids from having big dreams and trying too hard to escape the status quo. It's ingenius how they do it Any time Nick does something even a little rebellious or selfish or just feels an extreme emotion, it's painted in the nastiest of light and the punishment is tragicomical. He can't just be a little prideful, he has to be a snivveling little shit. The suffering before and after is exaggerated. It's like, "This is how YOU look when you sin." and when he gets punished we can shake our heads in "That's what you get for sinning." I kept thinking, "What kid would want to watch a show where the leads do nothing but lose? I would have hated that. it's depressing." it's because we aren't enjoying a narrative, we're watching a mini passion play. See the sinner express a feeling that I feel from time to time. The sinner does something I might have imagined doing but resisted. I can allow my feelings to be expressed, and a little meaner than I would in reality but that's to show to me that it's a bad thing to do this. See the sinner carry my imagined sin to the slaughtered for sacrifice so I didn't have to do it. And anyway, even if you DO sin, it's not fun anyway. It'll be disappointing. So why try? Btw the baseball episode is the best one. And yes that house is insane.

31:43 Whoah dude - what did that pawn shop owner ever do to you?

Just discovered your channel (through the "Brave Little Toaster" vid) and I have to say, it happened at The Perfect Time. I'm going to watch this video again, but first, some thoughts that went through my brain: Strophics, prosedy, alliteration, insight, Harry Dean Stanton, my thinking thing, so my brain isn't alone... At first I thought "How did you get inside my head?" but by the end I was thinking " Don't go" Thank you

Childhood trauma? I saw this at a friend's place when we were approaching our 30's and it traumatized us like nothing else! We'd both worked selling Kirby vacuums, so we delighted in the depiction of that character. "It's a G2!" we crowed (this was about the time the G3 was being introduced). We spent the first part of the movie quoting selling points: "A complete home-care system." and "Machined from airplane-grade aluminum." and such. Then the AC unit self-destructed. We spent the rest of the movie gasping, crying, we clutched each other in fear. We became closer friends after watching it together. Shared trauma, I suppose. Solidarity. To this day I find the sheer *menace* of the landfill's crushing machine both an example of masterful nonverbal characterization, and a terrifying intrusive image

It's more realistic when you aren't given reasons why people behave as they do. In life, you will encounter many people and never have a clue why they behave in certain ways.

If anyone in here is in the LA area, they are doing a screening of this Friday night (6/28/24) at Vidiots in Eagle Rock

All the way to the end!

This wasn't a childhood movie for me -- I only saw it starting in my teenage years, but I connected to it immediately. The fear of being unable to perform your function and the tragedy of thwarted function hit something deep. I actually interpreted the objects' differing perspectives as being linked to their function -- for example, in the scene where the blanket doesn't have anyone to cuddle with, the tragedy doesn't come merely from its loneliness, but from the fact that it is made to cuddle and be cuddled, and this function is being thwarted. You can see how it tries to cuddle with itself, but fails, because of all the objects it most of all requires relationship to be what it was made to be. I do think the fact that their fierce, hopeful alliance to their function is validated by the movie's end suggests that rather than being nihilistic, the movie walks through nihilism and emerges on the other side. Kind of similar to The Man Who Was Thursday in some ways, or some of the more hopeful 40k fan content. "Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all... As long as matters are really hopeful, hope is mere flattery or platitude; it is only when everything is hopeless that hope begins to be a strength." - G. K. Chesterton But there is some inherent tragedy, since the appliances' master is also mortal and flawed. This is something I've wrestled with in my object stories -- humans make very poor gods.

your description of the ending is inaccurate. a lot of fans of this movie joke around that the "master" may be too attached to his appliances to the point he follows then into a certain doom. even if he didn't know that these where his appliances he tried to take them because they looked like his old appliances. if anything it negates your point on the film's nihilism and turn into optimism. the appliances are saved because of the master personal beliefs in preserving them' so despite the many reasons to the contrary they should have faith in the mater and toaster was right all along. I'm not saying that is reasonable what I'm saying is you should omit details that don't align with your point.

Great stuff Mr. Cook

1. The King of Comedy 2. Taxi Driver 3. Goodfellas 4. Bringing out the Dead 5. Raging Bull 6. Casino 7. After Hours 8. Cape Fear 9. The Aviator 10. Killers of the Flower Moon Close call: The Irishman, Wolf of Wall Street and Mean Streets

I am a simple woman. I see a video recontextualizing a childhood classic, I click. I had no idea the film was based on a book, but I also barely knew how to read back when I had the VCR lol

Made it through, after a few existential pauses. Genuinely fascinating analysis that recontextualized a film I always thought I had made up growing up. I'd love to hear your thoughts on complex themes and philosophies found in modern children's media or the lackthereof.

I loved the video

It's weird how so many kids, including myself, loved this movie even though it was quite uncomfortable to watch. This analysis just upped how dark it is. And AI! I feel like people don't understand how dark that film is. Like this little guy goes through the most incredible adventure, survives all odds, but can't see any of that. He can only see that he lacks his only desire. Man, now I need to go watch an absurdist film to cleanse my palate lol

Great video, great narration. I haven't seen this movie since I was very young, but I knew it was different. What a terrifying story honestly

I would love new BLT stories that center on planned obsolescence, screens replacing knobs and levers and dials, and the trend of adding precarious computers to appliances that have gotten along just fine without them

Comment for the comment god! This deserves so many more eyeballs

I finished the video! I had such vague memories of this film, your video was so interesting! I love when you analyze media through the lens of philosophy

Very good video, keep going like this and you'll grow in no time. A thought that occurred to me is how this fits the postmodern notion of desiring machines, as in Deleuze where humans too are included in this category. I guess when you look at it like that you can say it's a story of addiction, or even the addiction to addiction (will to will). For a machine, to do its job is heaven, would the state of the machines be better if they didn't seek their master? With Nietzsche, too, the will to life is a life birthing instinct, whatever maximizes it is the best even if it means self delusion.

Watched it all the way through. Love your videos. I work in the industry and want to make things better. Watching your videos makes me want to make great films that will last for generations.

I'm always so psyched when you put out new videos! Thanks for your effort, it doesn't go unnoticed🙌

Yes! Did finish it! Lovely company while preparing ingredients for a stew. Caught the princess bride line, definitely loved the deep dive on a fondly remembered film

Always loved watching The Brave Little Toaster. I need to rewatch it now following your video. Great lesson on nihilism. Your analogies were really helpful in understanding the concepts and related themes. Great video!