Word: casting
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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TEXAS. When Carter defeated Ford by 129,000 votes out of 4 million cast in the state, he was supported by a united Democratic Party under the leadership of Governor Dolph Briscoe. But Briscoe is now out of office and unwilling to lift a finger for Carter. Along with many other Democrats, he is angry at the President's energy policies, especially the windfall-profits tax on the oil industry. "If I get out and campaign," explains Briscoe, "I might just campaign for myself. When I campaigned for someone else four years ago, the results didn't turn...
...years later, scars the picnic ground with revelations. In their vulnerability, the characters elicit the playgoer's binding affection. The artful cast is gently persuasive, and Director Brian Murray displays an unerring hand at stirring the evening's fun and folly. - T.E.K...
There, in a way, you have Gloria, and the mentality, real or imagined, that produced it. Add the cast, distinguished only by their lack of distinction, and you have a recipe for disaster. Cassavetes built his directorial reputation on the way he worked with actors, and particularly on his creative use of improvisation. But the liabilities of letting bad actors improvise are obvious. It's sort of like building a zoo without walls--you end up with shit all over the place...
JOHN SAYLES made The Return of the Secaucus Seven for his resume. He filmed it for $60,000 in 25 days with an inexperienced cast and never intended to release it commercially. Early in the film his cinematic technique is uncertain; Sayles edits and cross-cuts nervously, and yet his characters--'60s radicals preparing for a reunion in the White Mountains of New Hampshire--are a little nervous about seeing each other again, so it seems a charming extension of the characters' mood. Well, not really. But watching this extraordinarily modest, understated little home movie you want to give...
...smokers, prowling the urban nightscape, their lives a cacophonic symphony of desperation, their aggressions spilling out like a Bowery bum's shirttail. Cassavetes encourages openness, improvisation, the primacy of being over performing. An actor prepares, and the moviegoer watches, and Cassavetes approves. He as much as tells his cast: The screen is yours, the script is yours; run with it. For actors trained by such evangelical Methodists as Lee Strasberg, this is heaven, like being back at the Actors Studio, but going public and getting paid...