John Cassavetes

Streaming: Mubi’s First Films season and other essential director debuts

Red Road, Citizen Kane, Reservoir Dogs… some debut features feel like anything but

Guy Lodge

01, Jan, 2022 @8:00 AM

All About Theatre About Film: Ivo van Hove’s big-screen obsessions in focus

Europe’s in-demand theatre director is also an avid cinephile. A dizzying exhibition joins the dots between his adaptations of arthouse movies – by Antonioni, Bergman, Cassavetes and others – staged with designer Jan Versweyveld

Chris Wiegand

02, Dec, 2021 @3:27 PM

Opening Night: John Cassavetes' unromantic ode to theatre is stunning

Gena Rowlands plays an actor frustrated with her character in a backstage drama that kicks off our series on the ways cinema depicts theatre

Chris Wiegand

19, Jan, 2021 @6:00 AM

Huma Bhabha/Christina Ramberg review – terrifying totems eye a crumbling world

Bhabha’s eerie monuments create a creeping unease, while a group show riffs on female dress from a wooden skirt to a ring for the Statue of Liberty

Hannah Clugston

22, Sep, 2020 @8:01 AM

Seymour Cassel obituary

American actor closely associated with the directors John Cassavetes and Wes Anderson

Chris Wiegand

09, Apr, 2019 @12:25 PM

Mikey and Nicky review – a neglected gem of 70s cinema

John Cassavetes and Peter Falk are at the top of their game in Elaine May’s tangy, talky classic about mobster lowlife

Peter Bradshaw

15, Jun, 2018 @12:00 PM

Sean Baker interview: ‘James Whale’s Frankenstein made me want to become a director’

The writer/director of Tangerine on cinematic inspiration at the age of six

Carmen Gray

26, Oct, 2015 @12:20 PM

The Fury

Brian De Palma's 1978 spy thriller/sci-fi hybrid owes much to Alfred Hitchcock, writes Philip French

Philip French

17, Nov, 2013 @12:07 AM

Top 10 horror movies

Time to bring the fear - from Nosferatu to The Shining, here's what the Guardian and Observer's critics have picked as the scariest films ever made

14, Oct, 2013 @4:49 PM

The Killing of a Chinese Bookie: watch a clip from the John Cassavetes classic - video

John Cassavetes' 1976 gangster film stars Ben Gazzara as strip-club owner Cosmo Vitelli who is coerced into attempting a hit after losing heavy money at cards

15, Jul, 2013 @10:12 AM

Husbands – review

John Cassavetes's study of three men in midlife crisis is tedious and misogynistic but occasionally brilliant, writes Philip French

Philip French

29, Sep, 2012 @11:02 PM

Husbands – review

John Cassavetes' 1970 Husbands about three men going through a shared midlife crisis is a brilliantly textured film to be savoured, writes Peter Bradshaw

Peter Bradshaw

27, Sep, 2012 @9:50 PM