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	John Marley	Richard Forst
	Gena Rowlands	Jeannie Rapp
	Lynn Carlin	Maria Forst
	Fred Draper	Freddie Draper
	Seymour Cassel	Chet
	Val Avery	Jim McCarthy
	Dorothy Gulliver	Florence
	Joanne Moore Jordan	Louise Draper
	Darlene Conley	Billy Mae
	Gene Darfler	Joe Jackson
	Elizabeth Deering	Stella
	Ann Shirley
	Dave Mazzie
	Anita White
	Julie Gambol
	Edwin Sirianni
	Liz Satriano
	George Dunn	Comedian
	Jerry Howard
	David Rowlands
	Carolyn Fleming
	James Bridges	Extra
	Kay Michaels
	Don Kraatz
	Laurie Mock	Barmaid

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Director	John Cassavetes
Writer	John Cassavetes
Producer	John Cassavetes, Maurice McEndree, Al Ruban
Photography	Al Ruban, Maurice McEndree, Haskell Wexler

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John Cassavetes was a genius, a visionary, and the progenitor of American independent film, but that doesn’t begin to get at the generosity of his art. A former theater actor fascinated by the power of improvisation, Cassavetes brought his search for truth in performance to the screen. The five films in this collection-all of which the director maintained total control over by financing them himself and making them outside the studio system-are electrifying and compassionate creations, populated by all manner of humanity: beatniks, hippies, businessmen, actors, housewives, strippers, club owners, gangsters, children. Cassavetes has often been called an actor’s director, but this body of work-even greater than the sum of its extraordinary parts-shows him to be an audience’s director.


John Cassavetes puts a disintegrating marriage under the microscope in the searing Faces. Shot in high-contrast 16 mm black and white, the film follows the futile attempts of the captain of industry Richard (John Marley) and his wife, Maria (Lynn Carlin), to escape the anguish of their empty relationship in the arms of others. Featuring astonishingly nervy performances from Marley, Carlin, and Cassavetes regulars Gena Rowlands and Seymour Cassel, Faces confronts modern alienation and the battle of the sexes with a brutal honesty and compassion rarely matched in cinema.

SPECIAL FEATURES
New, high-definition digital restoration, with newly restored uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
Alternate eighteen-minute opening sequence
Episode of the French television series Cinéastes de notre temps from 1968, dedicated to director John Cassavetes
Making “Faces”, a 2004 documentary featuring interviews with actors Seymour Cassel, Lynn Carlin, and Gena Rowlands and director of photography Al Ruban
Al Ruban on Lighting and Shooting “Faces,” a new program featuring commentary by Ruban (Blu-ray); Lighting & Shooting the Film, a study of the techniques and equipment used on Faces by Al Ruban (DVD)
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by Stuart Klawans (DVD release)
New cover by Lucien S. Y. Yang

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