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Feb/12

WHAT’S YOUR TAKE ON CASSAVETES?

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Feb/12

Mounira Al Solh’s “Dinosaurs” pays tribute to John Cassavetes at Art in General

Art in General
79 Walker St. between Broadway & Lafayette St.
Friday, February 3, 7:00
212-219-0473
www.artingeneral.org

Pioneering improvisational writer-director John Cassavetes, who made such searing, emotional, cinema vérité films as Shadows, Faces, Husbands, and A Woman Under the Influence, died on February 3, 1989, at the age of fifty-nine. Art in General will honor the influential auteur at a special program on the twenty-third anniversary of his death, “What’s your take on Cassavetes?” being held in conjunction with Mounira Al Solh’s new exhibition, “Dinosaurs,” a film installation inspired by four of Cassavetes’ character-driven works, Faces, Husbands, Opening Night, and The Killing of a Chinese Bookie. Al Solh will talk about and present clips from the four films, followed by a screening of the complete Faces, which stars Gena Rowlands, Seymour Casssel, John Marley, Fred Draper, and Val Avery and was added to the National Film Registry of the Library Congress last year. Also on view at Art in General right now are Katrin Sigurdardóttir’s “Stage” and Theresa Himmer’s “All State.”