Even though his latest film, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, is a disaster, John Cassavetes, among presently working American directors, comes closest to being a genius….

Hopelessly in love with people, John Cassavetes is hung up on the mysterious meaning of man. Neither a lack of depth nor commercialism is evident in Cassavetes' work….

More than any other contemporary director, Cassavetes can pack a scene with emotional content. Both Husbands and A Woman Under the Influence border on being great films because of Cassavetes' capacity for capturing the struggles and strains of everyday living, for photographing what someone has called "the texture of domestic dailiness."…

Operating out of a more profound vision of life than any of his contemporaries, Cassavetes is also a master technician. His film style has been accurately described as somewhere between Hollywood and cinéma vérité. Largely improvisational and intuitional, Cassavetes' camera...