Jazz On Film Season Shadows - Cassavetes
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Tue 30 September 2008 // 20:00
(Tue 30th / 8pm / £4/3)
(John Cassavetes / USA / 1959 / 87 mins / PG)
Cassavetes' jazz-scored improvisational film is a seminal classic that explores the interracial friendships and relationships in Beat-Era (1950s) New York City. The film is beautiful, pacey and swinging - and unmissable classic with a blue and moody Mingus soundtrack and steel-grey photography.
Two brothers and a sister trudge through their city lives They visit smoky nightclubs, pretentious parties and encounter disastrous sexual affairs, brawls, and beery beatnik conversations along the way as they work out various tensions between themselves and other friends and lovers. The film captures an electric atmosphere and edgy performances through the jumpy editing, free- focus camerawork, and naturalistic dialogue (made the same year as Godard's Breathless).
(John Cassavetes / USA / 1959 / 87 mins / PG)
Cassavetes' jazz-scored improvisational film is a seminal classic that explores the interracial friendships and relationships in Beat-Era (1950s) New York City. The film is beautiful, pacey and swinging - and unmissable classic with a blue and moody Mingus soundtrack and steel-grey photography.
Two brothers and a sister trudge through their city lives They visit smoky nightclubs, pretentious parties and encounter disastrous sexual affairs, brawls, and beery beatnik conversations along the way as they work out various tensions between themselves and other friends and lovers. The film captures an electric atmosphere and edgy performances through the jumpy editing, free- focus camerawork, and naturalistic dialogue (made the same year as Godard's Breathless).