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Faces Director: John Cassavetes Cast: John Marley, Gena Rowlands, Lynn Carlin, Seymour Cassel

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  • DVD Release Date: 02/17/2009
  • Original Release: 1968
  • Rating: Not Rated
  • Sales Rank: 7,331

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Features

Seventeen-minute alternate opening sequence from an early edit of the film; Episode of the French television series Cinéastes de notre temps from 1968, dedicated to Cassavetes, featuring rare interviews and behind-the-scenes footage; Making "Faces," a 2004 documentary including interviews with actors Lynn Carlin, Seymour Cassel, and Gena Rowlands and director of photography AL Ruban; Lighting & Shooting the film, a short documentary from 2004 in which Ruban explains how he and the crew achieved the distinct look of Faces; A booklet featuring an essay by film critic Stuart Klawans

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Scene Index

Disc #1 -- Faces
1. Morning Meeting [:15]
2. Loser's Club / Jeannie's House [3:13]
3. "Jeannie With the Light Brown Hair" [12:15]
4. Home For Dinner [6:17]
5. Not All That Funny [10:58]
6. Unexpected Request [2:24]
7. Love Conquers Man [3:23]
8. Kid With Sneakers [3:16]
9. Dickie's Return [9:00]
10. Chairman of the Board [5:37]
11. "You Get to Me" [6:54]
12. At the Whisky [2:46]
13. Chet and the Ladies [5:58]
14. "Fools of Ourselves" [4:54]
15. Alone With Chet [7:13]
16. Lousy Eggs [15:06]
17. Tears of Happiness [3:56]
18. Ready [5:16]
19. Color Bars [2:03]

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Editorial Reviews

Faces is right: this definitive John Cassavetes film consists almost exclusively of tight, uncomfortable close-ups. It takes place in the fourteenth year of the marriage of Richard (John Marley) and Maria (Lynn Carlin). Neither husband nor wife is content with the conditions that prevail; Maria joins her friends looking for romantic satisfaction elsewhere, while Richard secures the services of a prostitute (Gena Rowlands). Maria herself has a one-night stand with a hippie (Seymour Cassel), but this is no more satisfying than her dead-end marriage. If you think that Faces is an exhausting experience in its current 130-minute length, imagine what it looked like in Cassavetes' original six-hour cut. Alternately clumsy and profound, it is nonetheless a work of deep sincerity, as recognized by the Venice Film Festival, which bestowed no fewer than five awards on the film, and it perfectly exemplifies Cassavetes' improvisational, cinéma vérité style and searching explorations of modern relationships. Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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February 15, 2002: If you ask me, this is the movie Citizen Kane is supposed to be. It's a dissection of America, an anatomy of aberrations of the male psyche. Not melodrama like Kane, but almost a documentary of what people really act like when they think no one is watching (or have a few beers--the same thing). Deep, searching, profound, complex.? Don't let the opening scene put you off. It seems too much, but makes sense later when you understand the characters better. And that's a key to Cassavetes' work: The characters take time to understand. They are not cartoons and cliches. I've seen this movie about ten times and I keep seeing new things in it. Not ''secret clues'' like in Hitchcock, but seeing new complexity in the men's and women's emotions. Like people in life, these characters won't be figured out easily. I also want to put in a plug for a totally amazing book about Cassavetes that you can get at a discount here. It's by Ray Carney, who has a massive website totally devoted to Cassavetes life and work, and who knew him and talked with him about his movies. Cassavetes on Cassavetes is the name of the book and in it the filmmaker tells incredible stories about what it is really like to be an indie, no budget filmmaker. What a nut this book shows he must have been. And what a great genius this film shows he was.

This review was written about the DVD Black & White / Pan & Scan edition.