wrenching drama, featuring an outstanding cast of regular Cassavetes collaborators, including Peter Falk, Fred Draper,
and the iconic Gena Rowlands in one of her most visceral, unforgettable performances. Nominated for two Oscars and
four Golden Globes, A Woman Under the Influence is the story of a woman who slowly sinks into madness as her blue-
collar husband tries desperately to keep their family together any way he can.
take on the noir genre, playing a stand-
up comic on the run from the mob in this
wonderfully offbeat gem that offers up
convincing evidence that Jean Luc Godard
and company's French New Wave influence
had reached Hollywood by 1965. With
a memorable soundtrack by jazz greats
Stan Getz and Eddie Sauter, Mickey One
is a jazz film (a la Godard's own A bout de
soufflé (Breathless)) through and through,
as it seems to only hold itself to one rule:
consistent improvisation.