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Gena did none of that. There was a directness not that she wasn't fun and didn't smolder but it came from a place that was both genuine and deep,
I'd never seen anyone that beautiful with a certain gravitas. It was particularly unique in that time, when many women were trying to be girlish,
said actress Mia Farrow in 2015, quoted in Elle magazine Miss Rowlands, as she has shown in other films directed by her husband, can be incomparably funny while coming apart at the seams,
The performance is as startling today as it was in 1974,
says a 2015 article on the website of acclaimed US critic Roger Ebert Whatever I say about Gena isn't enough because she's so incredible,
said Winona Ryder, quoted in the LA Times in 1992 when the two co-starred in Jim Jarmusch's "Night on Earth." Incapable of an unreal moment,
said Woody Allen of the actress, whom he cast in his 1988 film "Another Woman." She can just play. Give her anything and she'll always be creative. She doesn't try to make it different she just is,
said Cassavetes in a 2001 interview collection You know what’s wonderful about being an actress? You don’t just live one life,
I want everyone to see his films,
she said at the San Sebastian Festival in 1992. He had a particular sympathetic interest in women and their problems in society, how they were treated and how they solved and overcame what they needed to, so all his movies have some interesting women, and you don’t need many,
Sometimes, those white nights when I have no sleep and a lot of time to think about everything, I’ll examine different possibilities of different characters and what they might be doing now,
There was always a manic energy to the performances she gave in her late husband’s films, a fear of failure, a desire to love,
the awards website Golden Derby said of Rowlands She’s in full dementia. And it’s so crazy – we lived it, she acted it, and now it’s on us,
her son, who directed the film, told Entertainment Weekly I got my mom to play older Allie, and we spent a lot of time talking about Alzheimer's and wanting to be authentic with it, and now, for the last five years, she's had Alzheimer's,
Cassavetes told Entertainment Weekly of Rowlands' character, who also had dementia Rowlands' sublime acting is almost unprecedentedly id-driven: her beleaguered heroines operate from such deep reserves of need that can only be accessed by Rowlands, who doesn't just claim moments but wrestles with them in order to extract even tougher layers of authenticity,
critic Matthew Eng said on the Tribeca News website in 2016. It's a tricky life but it was so exciting and wonderful because you were doing what you really wanted do it,
she said about acting and making independent films Independent filmmaking existed before Cassavetes, but Cassavetes, working with Rowlands, managed to make an independent cinema that borrowed from Hollywood - not in plots or styles but in actorly allure and dramatic power,
the New Yorker said in 2016. It was not like working for anybody else,
she told film critic Roger Ebert about her husband in 2016. I always wanted to be an actress; I read so much when I was little, and it revealed to me there were other things to be. You can live a lot of lives and have a lot of fun and see a lot of things,
she told the New York Times in 2016. This last one was particularly hard because I play a character who has Alzheimer's,
she revealed in an interview with O Magazine