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Faces / produced by Maurice McEndree ; written and directed by John Cassavetes ; associate producer, Al Ruban ; Faces Distribution Corporation presents.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: 252 | Criterion CollectionSeries: John Cassavetes: five films | Criterion collection ; 252.Publication details: Irvington, NY : Criterion Collection, ©2008.Description: 2 videodiscs (DVD) (130 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 inContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
ISBN:
  • 0780029194
  • 9780780029194
  • 0780029232
  • 9780780029231
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Disc 1. The film -- Disc 2. The supplements.
Production credits:
  • Musical director, Jack Ackerman ; director of photography, Al Ruban; editors, Al Ruban, Maurice McEndree.
Awards:
  • National Film Registry selection, 1993.
Cast: Lynn Carlin, John Marley, Gena Rowlands, Seymour Cassel, Fred Draper, Val Avery.Summary: Powerful story of the disintegration of a marriage of a captain of industry and his wife.
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Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult DVD Adult DVD Main Library DVD DRAMA FACES Available 33111009933744
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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, Rovi

Title from credits.

Videodisc release of the 1968 motion picture.

Running time does not include special features.

1.66:1 aspect ratio.

Special features: Disc 2: 17 minute alternate opening sequence, from an early edit of the film; "Cineastes de notre temps" (1968, 48 min): an episode from the French television series dedicated to Cassavetes, featuring rare interviews and behind the scenes footage; "Making faces": a new documentary including interviews with actors Lynn Carlin, Seymour Cassel, Gena Rowlands, and director of photography Al Ruban; "Lighting & shooting the film": Ruban explains how he and the crew achieved the distinct look of "Faces", illustrated with specific sequences from the film.

Disc 1. The film -- Disc 2. The supplements.

Musical director, Jack Ackerman ; director of photography, Al Ruban; editors, Al Ruban, Maurice McEndree.

Lynn Carlin, John Marley, Gena Rowlands, Seymour Cassel, Fred Draper, Val Avery.

Powerful story of the disintegration of a marriage of a captain of industry and his wife.

Rated PG-13.

DVD; Dolby digital.

Closed-captioned.

National Film Registry selection, 1993.

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