I will mention Chet Baker, an icon i think..
Blotnik plays a lovely Gretcsh as though he is tempting and loving the music out were it sparkles and expands, and subtley begins or enters into a pattern, when I listen I really go on a trip…he plays solo, but mostly with bands with sax, stand-up, drums. He also plays with a group called Akoya, that is afrobeat.
Woman Under the Influence is so amazing and hard to watch….there are a few scenes in particular that are raw and filmed like a home movie. Gina Rowland’s ability to register these facial expression just rolling across her face, it is so real. The impact on her husband and children is also very clear, along with how bizarre it is that she is sent off and no one knows how to act when she returns.
There is a film about Frances Farmer, what’s the name?, with Jessica Lange, that doesn’t pull any punches either!
Woman Under the Influence is so amazing and hard to watch….there are a few scenes in particular that are raw and filmed like a home movie. Gina Rowland’s ability to register these facial expression just rolling across her face, it is so real. The impact on her husband and children is also very clear, along with how bizarre it is that she is sent off and no one knows how to act when she returns.
There is a film about Frances Farmer, what’s the name?, with Jessica Lange, that doesn’t pull any punches either!
Woman Under the Influence is so amazing and hard to watch….there are a few scenes in particular that are raw and filmed like a home movie. Gina Rowland’s ability to register these facial expression just rolling across her face, it is so real. The impact on her husband and children is also very clear, along with how bizarre it is that she is sent off and no one knows how to act when she returns.
There is a film about Frances Farmer, what’s the name?, with Jessica Lange, that doesn’t pull any punches either!
Woman Under the Influence is so amazing and hard to watch….there are a few scenes in particular that are raw and filmed like a home movie. Gina Rowland’s ability to register these facial expression just rolling across her face, it is so real. The impact on her husband and children is also very clear, along with how bizarre it is that she is sent off and no one knows how to act when she returns.
There is a film about Frances Farmer, what’s the name?, with Jessica Lange, that doesn’t pull any punches either!
Woman Under the Influence is so amazing and hard to watch….there are a few scenes in particular that are raw and filmed like a home movie. Gina Rowland’s ability to register these facial expression just rolling across her face, it is so real. The impact on her husband and children is also very clear, along with how bizarre it is that she is sent off and no one knows how to act when she returns.
There is a film about Frances Farmer, what’s the name?, with Jessica Lange, that doesn’t pull any punches either!
Woman Under the Influence is so amazing and hard to watch….there are a few scenes in particular that are raw and filmed like a home movie. Gina Rowland’s ability to register these facial expression just rolling across her face, it is so real. The impact on her husband and children is also very clear, along with how bizarre it is that she is sent off and no one knows how to act when she returns.
There is a film about Frances Farmer, what’s the name?, with Jessica Lange, that doesn’t pull any punches either!
Woman Under the Influence is so amazing and hard to watch….there are a few scenes in particular that are raw and filmed like a home movie. Gina Rowland’s ability to register these facial expression just rolling across her face, it is so real. The impact on her husband and children is also very clear, along with how bizarre it is that she is sent off and no one knows how to act when she returns.
There is a film about Frances Farmer, what’s the name?, with Jessica Lange, that doesn’t pull any punches either!
Woman Under the Influence is so amazing and hard to watch….there are a few scenes in particular that are raw and filmed like a home movie. Gina Rowland’s ability to register these facial expression just rolling across her face, it is so real. The impact on her husband and children is also very clear, along with how bizarre it is that she is sent off and no one knows how to act when she returns.
There is a film about Frances Farmer, what’s the name?, with Jessica Lange, that doesn’t pull any punches either!
Woman Under the Influence is so amazing and hard to watch….there are a few scenes in particular that are raw and filmed like a home movie. Gina Rowland’s ability to register these facial expression just rolling across her face, it is so real. The impact on her husband and children is also very clear, along with how bizarre it is that she is sent off and no one knows how to act when she returns.
There is a film about Frances Farmer, what’s the name?, with Jessica Lange, that doesn’t pull any punches either!
Woman Under the Influence is so amazing and hard to watch….there are a few scenes in particular that are raw and filmed like a home movie. Gina Rowland’s ability to register these facial expression just rolling across her face, it is so real. The impact on her husband and children is also very clear, along with how bizarre it is that she is sent off and no one knows how to act when she returns.
There is a film about Frances Farmer, what’s the name?, with Jessica Lange, that doesn’t pull any punches either!
Woman Under the Influence is so amazing and hard to watch….there are a few scenes in particular that are raw and filmed like a home movie. Gina Rowland’s ability to register these facial expression just rolling across her face, it is so real. The impact on her husband and children is also very clear, along with how bizarre it is that she is sent off and no one knows how to act when she returns.
There is a film about Frances Farmer, what’s the name?, with Jessica Lange, that doesn’t pull any punches either!
Woman Under the Influence is so amazing and hard to watch….there are a few scenes in particular that are raw and filmed like a home movie. Gina Rowland’s ability to register these facial expression just rolling across her face, it is so real. The impact on her husband and children is also very clear, along with how bizarre it is that she is sent off and no one knows how to act when she returns.
There is a film about Frances Farmer, what’s the name?, with Jessica Lange, that doesn’t pull any punches either!
Woman Under the Influence is so amazing and hard to watch….there are a few scenes in particular that are raw and filmed like a home movie. Gina Rowland’s ability to register these facial expression just rolling across her face, it is so real. The impact on her husband and children is also very clear, along with how bizarre it is that she is sent off and no one knows how to act when she returns.
There is a film about Frances Farmer, what’s the name?, with Jessica Lange, that doesn’t pull any punches either!
Good God…I AM a woman under the influence!I don’t even know how that instant repeat happened!!
I have spent 20 minutes trying to erase it …. oh, well, it fits the subject.
I feel that Bob’s observations about Europa 51 apply to this one also.
The issue of family putting someone away to make society comfortable, the insane behavior and ignorance in relation to the sick persons struggles, all are expressed poignantly.
(and this time i will not keep banging on the bar because it doesn’t seem to be working).
That reminds me, the title ‘Woman Under the Influence’ is so good, it is never named, whatever"it" is that is troubling her…
is she under the influence of her husband who shouts at her? of isolation? exhaustion? drinking?
It’s not just that she seemed much interested and affectionate toward her room-mate than she did toward Paul…
it is also my impression of her from her first appearance.
I saw Chantal, the(non) actress who played Madeleine, interviewed. She said how sweet and good her character appears throughout the film, and then people are shocked at the end when she casually mentions to a police officer that she may abort with a coat-hanger!
I was shocked by Chantal’s words, I never thought Madeleine seemed kind or good, and I was actually relieved when she expressed some type of humanity or fragility.
J. Arthaus- the information about R. D. Laing is fascinating, thanks. An example of how film makers are responding to so much and incorporating it in their work. I am especially interested in Laing’s theories for the same reason that Woman Under the Influence is so significant; birth are about the ideas you describe, of being made crazy by the influences in your life. I absolutely agree that mental illness is a reaction to painful forces in one’s life! Cassavettes had a way of just being inside a situation, letting things happen, and revealing a deeper layer of the character’s life.
Jazz Anyone? over 2 years ago
thanks for asking….check out RYAN BLOTNIK….his is NEW, ORIGINAL, and WONDERFUL
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Jazz Anyone? over 2 years ago
I will mention Chet Baker, an icon i think..
Blotnik plays a lovely Gretcsh as though he is tempting and loving the music out were it sparkles and expands, and subtley begins or enters into a pattern, when I listen I really go on a trip…he plays solo, but mostly with bands with sax, stand-up, drums. He also plays with a group called Akoya, that is afrobeat.
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GREAT FILMS DEPICTING INSANITY AND MENTAL ILLNESS over 2 years ago
Woman Under the Influence is so amazing and hard to watch….there are a few scenes in particular that are raw and filmed like a home movie. Gina Rowland’s ability to register these facial expression just rolling across her face, it is so real. The impact on her husband and children is also very clear, along with how bizarre it is that she is sent off and no one knows how to act when she returns.
There is a film about Frances Farmer, what’s the name?, with Jessica Lange, that doesn’t pull any punches either!
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GREAT FILMS DEPICTING INSANITY AND MENTAL ILLNESS over 2 years ago
Woman Under the Influence is so amazing and hard to watch….there are a few scenes in particular that are raw and filmed like a home movie. Gina Rowland’s ability to register these facial expression just rolling across her face, it is so real. The impact on her husband and children is also very clear, along with how bizarre it is that she is sent off and no one knows how to act when she returns.
There is a film about Frances Farmer, what’s the name?, with Jessica Lange, that doesn’t pull any punches either!
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GREAT FILMS DEPICTING INSANITY AND MENTAL ILLNESS over 2 years ago
Woman Under the Influence is so amazing and hard to watch….there are a few scenes in particular that are raw and filmed like a home movie. Gina Rowland’s ability to register these facial expression just rolling across her face, it is so real. The impact on her husband and children is also very clear, along with how bizarre it is that she is sent off and no one knows how to act when she returns.
There is a film about Frances Farmer, what’s the name?, with Jessica Lange, that doesn’t pull any punches either!
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GREAT FILMS DEPICTING INSANITY AND MENTAL ILLNESS over 2 years ago
Woman Under the Influence is so amazing and hard to watch….there are a few scenes in particular that are raw and filmed like a home movie. Gina Rowland’s ability to register these facial expression just rolling across her face, it is so real. The impact on her husband and children is also very clear, along with how bizarre it is that she is sent off and no one knows how to act when she returns.
There is a film about Frances Farmer, what’s the name?, with Jessica Lange, that doesn’t pull any punches either!
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GREAT FILMS DEPICTING INSANITY AND MENTAL ILLNESS over 2 years ago
Woman Under the Influence is so amazing and hard to watch….there are a few scenes in particular that are raw and filmed like a home movie. Gina Rowland’s ability to register these facial expression just rolling across her face, it is so real. The impact on her husband and children is also very clear, along with how bizarre it is that she is sent off and no one knows how to act when she returns.
There is a film about Frances Farmer, what’s the name?, with Jessica Lange, that doesn’t pull any punches either!
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GREAT FILMS DEPICTING INSANITY AND MENTAL ILLNESS over 2 years ago
Woman Under the Influence is so amazing and hard to watch….there are a few scenes in particular that are raw and filmed like a home movie. Gina Rowland’s ability to register these facial expression just rolling across her face, it is so real. The impact on her husband and children is also very clear, along with how bizarre it is that she is sent off and no one knows how to act when she returns.
There is a film about Frances Farmer, what’s the name?, with Jessica Lange, that doesn’t pull any punches either!
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GREAT FILMS DEPICTING INSANITY AND MENTAL ILLNESS over 2 years ago
Woman Under the Influence is so amazing and hard to watch….there are a few scenes in particular that are raw and filmed like a home movie. Gina Rowland’s ability to register these facial expression just rolling across her face, it is so real. The impact on her husband and children is also very clear, along with how bizarre it is that she is sent off and no one knows how to act when she returns.
There is a film about Frances Farmer, what’s the name?, with Jessica Lange, that doesn’t pull any punches either!
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GREAT FILMS DEPICTING INSANITY AND MENTAL ILLNESS over 2 years ago
Woman Under the Influence is so amazing and hard to watch….there are a few scenes in particular that are raw and filmed like a home movie. Gina Rowland’s ability to register these facial expression just rolling across her face, it is so real. The impact on her husband and children is also very clear, along with how bizarre it is that she is sent off and no one knows how to act when she returns.
There is a film about Frances Farmer, what’s the name?, with Jessica Lange, that doesn’t pull any punches either!
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GREAT FILMS DEPICTING INSANITY AND MENTAL ILLNESS over 2 years ago
Woman Under the Influence is so amazing and hard to watch….there are a few scenes in particular that are raw and filmed like a home movie. Gina Rowland’s ability to register these facial expression just rolling across her face, it is so real. The impact on her husband and children is also very clear, along with how bizarre it is that she is sent off and no one knows how to act when she returns.
There is a film about Frances Farmer, what’s the name?, with Jessica Lange, that doesn’t pull any punches either!
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GREAT FILMS DEPICTING INSANITY AND MENTAL ILLNESS over 2 years ago
Woman Under the Influence is so amazing and hard to watch….there are a few scenes in particular that are raw and filmed like a home movie. Gina Rowland’s ability to register these facial expression just rolling across her face, it is so real. The impact on her husband and children is also very clear, along with how bizarre it is that she is sent off and no one knows how to act when she returns.
There is a film about Frances Farmer, what’s the name?, with Jessica Lange, that doesn’t pull any punches either!
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GREAT FILMS DEPICTING INSANITY AND MENTAL ILLNESS over 2 years ago
Woman Under the Influence is so amazing and hard to watch….there are a few scenes in particular that are raw and filmed like a home movie. Gina Rowland’s ability to register these facial expression just rolling across her face, it is so real. The impact on her husband and children is also very clear, along with how bizarre it is that she is sent off and no one knows how to act when she returns.
There is a film about Frances Farmer, what’s the name?, with Jessica Lange, that doesn’t pull any punches either!
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GREAT FILMS DEPICTING INSANITY AND MENTAL ILLNESS over 2 years ago
Woman Under the Influence is so amazing and hard to watch….there are a few scenes in particular that are raw and filmed like a home movie. Gina Rowland’s ability to register these facial expression just rolling across her face, it is so real. The impact on her husband and children is also very clear, along with how bizarre it is that she is sent off and no one knows how to act when she returns.
There is a film about Frances Farmer, what’s the name?, with Jessica Lange, that doesn’t pull any punches either!
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GREAT FILMS DEPICTING INSANITY AND MENTAL ILLNESS over 2 years ago
Woman Under the Influence is so amazing and hard to watch….there are a few scenes in particular that are raw and filmed like a home movie. Gina Rowland’s ability to register these facial expression just rolling across her face, it is so real. The impact on her husband and children is also very clear, along with how bizarre it is that she is sent off and no one knows how to act when she returns.
There is a film about Frances Farmer, what’s the name?, with Jessica Lange, that doesn’t pull any punches either!
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GREAT FILMS DEPICTING INSANITY AND MENTAL ILLNESS over 2 years ago
Good God…I AM a woman under the influence!I don’t even know how that instant repeat happened!!
I have spent 20 minutes trying to erase it …. oh, well, it fits the subject.
I feel that Bob’s observations about Europa 51 apply to this one also.
The issue of family putting someone away to make society comfortable, the insane behavior and ignorance in relation to the sick persons struggles, all are expressed poignantly.
(and this time i will not keep banging on the bar because it doesn’t seem to be working).
That reminds me, the title ‘Woman Under the Influence’ is so good, it is never named, whatever"it" is that is troubling her…
is she under the influence of her husband who shouts at her? of isolation? exhaustion? drinking?
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was Madeleine a lesbian? over 2 years ago
It’s not just that she seemed much interested and affectionate toward her room-mate than she did toward Paul…
it is also my impression of her from her first appearance.
I saw Chantal, the(non) actress who played Madeleine, interviewed. She said how sweet and good her character appears throughout the film, and then people are shocked at the end when she casually mentions to a police officer that she may abort with a coat-hanger!
I was shocked by Chantal’s words, I never thought Madeleine seemed kind or good, and I was actually relieved when she expressed some type of humanity or fragility.
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GREAT FILMS DEPICTING INSANITY AND MENTAL ILLNESS over 2 years ago
J. Arthaus- the information about R. D. Laing is fascinating, thanks. An example of how film makers are responding to so much and incorporating it in their work. I am especially interested in Laing’s theories for the same reason that Woman Under the Influence is so significant; birth are about the ideas you describe, of being made crazy by the influences in your life. I absolutely agree that mental illness is a reaction to painful forces in one’s life! Cassavettes had a way of just being inside a situation, letting things happen, and revealing a deeper layer of the character’s life.
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GREAT FILMS DEPICTING INSANITY AND MENTAL ILLNESS over 2 years ago
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