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MoMA Presents: John Cassavetes’s A Woman Under the Influence
To inaugurate its seventh annual To Save and Project film-preservation festival, the Department of Film presents a special weeklong run of John Cassavetes’s masterpiece A Woman Under the Influence. Gena Rowlands, who introduces the opening-night screening on October 24, gives one of the great ...
A Woman Under the Influence - Film review - Time Out New York
newyork.timeout.com — Maybe acting in a Cassavetes film was a kind of madness to begin with, a guarantee of total emotional exposure, fierce fights and sloppy hugs on and off camera. Such were the privileges enjoyed by a select few during the director’s 1970s heyday; of ... A Woman Under the Influence - Film review - Time Out New ...
New York Movies - Gena Rowlands as One Complicated Lady in A Woman Under the Influence - page 1
villagevoice.com — Although it'll be screening at MOMA right before Halloween, the holiday that most comes to mind when watching A Woman Under the Influence would have to be Mother's Day. Thirty-five years after its debut, writer-director John Cassavetes 's remarkable ... New York Movies - Gena Rowlands as One Complicated Lady ...
cinemadaily | Recent Restorations Shine at MoMA
indiewire.com — To Save and Project: The Seventh MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation is currently underway at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Dedicated to showcasing recently restored films, this year’s edition includes screenings of over 25 works, including a week-long run of John ... cinemadaily | Recent Restorations Shine at MoMA
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The Auteurs Daily: New York, New York
The Auteurs Notebook — ... a crystal anniversary party, and [Béla] Tarr has brought admired Hungarian films to play with it," writes Nick Pinkerton in the Voice. "This is interesting; though he's had long runs with like-minded collaborators, Tarr has been happy to perpetuate the idea that he's been influenced by no one, and sprang full-grown from the forehead of a brooding deity." Tomorrow through October 30. Then, on Saturday, also through October 30, MoMA screens John Cassavetes's A Woman Under the Influence, recently restored. Tim ...

A BRAND-NEW WOMAN AT MoMA
The Criterion Current — For Halloween week, the Museum of Modern Art is showcasing a different kind of horror film. John Cassavetes’s domestic meltdown epic A Woman Under the Influence (which Kent Jones calls “alternately soaring and gut-wrenching” in his Criterion essay) is playing until October 30, in a new, restored print inaugurating MoMA’s seventh annual international festival of film preservation, To Save  and Project. And even if you’re not in the New York area, you can read Keith Uhlich’s new interview with the scary-good Gena Rowlands in Time Out New York, in which the actress, whose disturbed ...

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