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Courtesy of ShsMon Art Gallery I
Director John Cassavetes
Director started as stagehand j
By Sarah Knight
Staff Reporter
After rearranging movie lights
and scenery props for the late director
John Cassavetes one night, Seymour
Cassel was invited to study with and
eventually work for the directing
legend.
“He (Cassavetes) was giving out
scholarships to study on a feature
film, and I went for an interview,”
Cassel said. “The scholarships had
run out but he interviewed me any*
) way, then asked me to help him move
some props.”
Afterwards, Cassel asked Cas
savetes if he could return the next day
and Cassavetes agreed. Cassel and
Cassavetes worked together in vari
ous projects for the next 30 years.
Cassel comes from a show-busi
ness family. His parents worked in
the circus and he travelled with them
until the age of six, when he started
school.
While growing up, Cassel said he
liked a wide variety of films, includ
ing westerns, action pictures and
those of directors Frank Capra (‘4 It’s
a Wonderful Life”) and George Ste
vens (‘‘A Place in the Sun”).
After graduation, Cassel contin
ued his studies with the American
Theater Wing in New York and then
met Cassavetes in 1958.
Cassel appeared in Cassavetes’
films “Love Streams,” “Shadows,”
“Too Late Blues,” “Faces” and "A
Woman Under f-he Influence.”
Cassel will introduce Cassavetes’
movie, “Minnie and Moskowitz,”
which is showing Saturday at 7:30
p.m. in the Sheldon Art Gallery as
pan of the Flat water Film Festival A
festival button will be required for
admittance. i
Cassel has toured with the Cas
savetes film series before, recently
shown at the University of Tennessee
and Stanford University.
Cassel said working with Cas
savetes could better be called a col
laboration than a job. Cassavetes
would let his actors in on the camer
awork as well as the editing of his
films.
ne would say, wno w<uiu> ■
shoot this shot’ and we’d all jump at n
the chance,” Cassel said.
Cassel also said that because Cas- 1
savctes was once an actor himself, he ■<
knew the problems that actors had ■
and was very sympathetic. v
“He’s the best,” Cassel said.
“I’ve worked with a lot of people,
and he’s the best.”
Cassavetes died earlier this year
from cirrhosis of the liver and hepati
tis caught while on two trips to Mex
ico.
Cassel currently is working on
“Dick Tracy” with Warren Beatty
and Madonna as well as “Sweet Bird
of Youth” with Elizabeth Taylor.
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