Gena Rowlands Articles

FACES Review Pt.1. [Photo: Gena Rowlands as the prostitute Jeannie.] Faces' drama failed to move me not because of either the film's plot, however predictable at times, or conventional set of characters. Faces' chief handicap is director-writer John Cassavetes, who apparently was too enamored of his own anti-Hollywood brilliance to let a mere story and a handful of distraught human beings get in the way [...]

FACES (1968) Direction and screenplay: John Cassavetes Cast: John Marley, Gena Rowlands, Lynn Carlin, Fred Draper, Seymour Cassel, Val Avery Oscar Movies Gena Rowlands, John Marley, Faces After playing Mia Farrow's husband in Roman Polanski's Rosemary's Baby (1968), John Cassavetes reportedly threw the money he made as an actor into the finishing touches on Faces, a personal project he had begun filming in 1966. Cassavetes [...]

Gena Rowlands in John Cassavetes' A Woman Under the Influence A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE Review Pt.1 Eventually, Mabel's eccentricities — her chattiness, her nervous ticks, her habit of talking to herself — are seen as severe mental problems. Nick's mother (Katherine Cassavetes, the filmmaker's real-life mother), fearing for the safety of her son and grandchildren, wants Mabel sent to a mental institution. Nick eventually [...]

A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE (1974) Direction and screenplay: John Cassavetes Cast: Gena Rowlands, Peter Falk, Fred Draper, Lady Rowlands, Katherine Cassavetes, Eddie Shaw Oscar Movies Peter Falk, Gena Rowlands, A Woman Under the Influence Steven Spielberg is a respected film director. Many will even call him an auteur. When you watch a Spielberg film, you know it's a Spielberg film — or at least [...]