Faces
1968. USA. John Cassavetes. 130 min.
Introduced by Al Ruban, producer, editor, and cinematographer
Friday, June 1, 2007, 7:00 p.m.
Theater 1 (The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 1), T1
Faces
1968. USA. Directed by John Cassavetes. Screenplay by Cassavetes, Al Ruban. With Gena Rowlands, John Marley, Lynn Carlin, Seymour Cassel. Faces is Cassavetes's masterpiece, a portrait of a decaying marriage in a repressed and hypocritical society. The film manages, like its characters, to be emotionally wrenching yet euphoric, artless yet hyper-realistic, masked yet uninhibited. Jonathan Lethem proclaims, "Faces, which today is my favorite Cassavetes film is a voracious, ribald mugging of its viewers' defensive assumptions [and also] a shattering formal essay in compression and explosion." Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive with funds from The Film Foundation and The Hollywood Foreign Press Association. 130 min.
In the Film exhibition To Save and Project: The Fifth MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation
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