possesed and john cassavetes

This is a good film that has a noir kind of edge. It also uses alot of really truely neat camera moves and all sorts of stuff.
I liked this movie for the art of which it was made.
But Joan Crowford was just annoying the piss out of me. Her character at least sometimes i'd be like oh what the fuck come the fuck is wrong with you. I get it that she is supposed to have a mental disorder and stuff it was getting annoying. At least for me personally everybody else seems to be coo with it.
I liked her alot more in Mildred Pirece.
It's good if you like weirder movies with noir or if you liked Spellbound by hitchcock. in fact if you love spellbound by hitchcock you'll love this movie. i felt they were very similair.


There were several problems with the afi list and it would be stupid of me to act like it could ever be a perfect list. However the critera is basically if your films hold up today or are important to todays audiences. (they say it in a different way but that's what it means)
Now i could do this about animation which i believe deserved alot more respect or documentary which got like none. but i chouse somebody who is obviously influencal and important and really film would be a hell of alot different without him and that is John Cassavetes.
He is the father of indepent film. Without him well dam i don't know. There would be no miramax and probably not indepent film the way we know it. also there would be no and i truly mean this shakey cam.
Shadows is the film that should have been included and is the one i would pick. It's influence runs very deep. yes i could pick other of his films but i think this is the one they would most likely go for.
Shadows is as important as Toy Story, Birth of a Nation, The Jazz Singer, and Snow White. it was a first and we'd live in a different world. at the end of last centary several critics had a list of the most influencal films of all time and guess what Shadows was on all of them.
9 years ago when they made the afi list people were upset sullivan's travels didn't make it. well i want in 10 years this film to be on there.
I don't really watch his films that much or even really like his films as much as lot of people but i understand how big he is.
so if you havn't seen Shadows go get a copy, it truely is as big of deal as all those big films infact it's probably greater then most.
Also it's mad coo with a fucking awesome jazz score and really good improv acting in black and white. oh yeah he also brought improv to film but you know nobody does that anymore so whateva.


also here's a clip