Gena Rowlands

Gena Rowlands and John Marley in Faces movie. 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…

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 one…

Bette Davis – young and older – is the subject of a Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences centennial tribute. Bette Davis young & later years: From ‘Jezebel’ to ‘The Nanny’ Celebrating…

All choice entails risk. Thus, John Cassavetes’ artistic choice to structure his films based mostly on improvisation rather than hard scripted dialogue is a decision that can result in great films, like Faces, ok films like Shadows, and bad films…