I think he called it his little penguin.

My first exposure to Cassavetes was in the 70s as an actor, but I had a vague idea that he was a director of some repute.  When I saw HUSBANDS, GLORIA and LOVE STREAMS in the 80s I admired the acting but didn't care much for the material.  Today I really like his commitment to the persistence of love and the energy…

My first exposure to Cassavetes was in the 70s as an actor, but I had a vague idea that he was a director of some repute.  When I saw HUSBANDS, GLORIA and LOVE STREAMS in the 80s I admired the acting but didn't care much for the material.  Today I really like his commitment to the persistence of love and the energy…

I saw it on a really small screen so I missed a lot of the goofs, but I know the film is rather infamous for them.

I saw it on a really small screen so I missed a lot of the goofs, but I know the film is rather infamous for them.

Then, A.V. Club, get on it.  And do a re-assessment on the original cut of KILLING OF A CHINESE BOOKIE while you're at it.

Then, A.V. Club, get on it.  And do a re-assessment on the original cut of KILLING OF A CHINESE BOOKIE while you're at it.

MICKEY AND NICKY is sensational, with a warmth and authenticity that indie crime films don't even try for today.  Has the A.V. Club done a primer on Cassevetes yet?

MICKEY AND NICKY is sensational, with a warmth and authenticity that indie crime films don't even try for today.  Has the A.V. Club done a primer on Cassevetes yet?

Lots of people tend to moralize when it comes to assessing representations of race and ethnicity, and the intent of the artist and the context of the art, not to mention the sensibilities of the audience, gets lost in the process.  Cultural responses to racial caricatures are numerous and complex, and therefore not…

The problem is one of power when it comes to minstrelsy.  White ethnics could prove their worthiness of understanding American racial norms by putting on the mask of blackface, and retain a certain degree of respect for pulling off a performance for imitating something they were not.  For black performers (who often…

I don't know if the film's treatment of the themes in THE JAZZ SINGER makes it inherently obscure, but you raise an interesting point.  Both films articulate the struggle of assimilation from a Jewish centered perspective.  The Jolson picture seems to have more universal appeal, having been remade at least twice well…

It's controversial because it depicts the assimilation of Jews into white America as being dependent on performing normative racial stereotypes.  On the other hand, it is one of the few American movies that actually shows Judaism as a part of its character's identity, as most of the studio owners and producers tended…

An actor friend of mine got a small part in a similar stunt at Disneyland for a short film, although it was only a couple of scenes in a montage.  They got away with it but the results were nothing to brag about.

Most of us have no problem with a war movie depicting sexism and misogyny as a natural product of the stresses of war.  What seems dated is that the movie asks its audience to identify with and to root for the perpetrators of these acts by making the victims authoritarian, ball-breaking stereotypes worthy of violation…

MASH was a truly innovative film and demonstrated a significant shift in Hollywood's attitudes in depicting the stress associated with war, but there is a large amount of sexism whose cruelty doesn't entirely seem justified by the context of the setting.  Some of the anti-establishment stereotypes haven't aged well.…

The musical numbers that pop up in Howard Hawks films, such as ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS, BALL OF FIRE TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT, RIO BRAVO and HATARI! have really grown on me over the years.  There is such a sense of spontaneity and chemistry between his characters in these seemingly gratuitous interludes that it makes me…

It feels like Lang hadn't completely adapted to the American studio style at this point, so its bluntness seems matched by a somewhat more flamboyant visual style than in the movies that followed.  Also this could probably be considered a "social problem" film, a genre which some cineastes apply undue criticism…

I find a way of paraphrasing it at least once a week.

I seem to recall that that the interview was in a single take.