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 protagonist Mabel is one of cinema’s most heartbreaking creations, provides a little insight into Cassavetes’s motivations for making the movie: “His feeling was that the world is set up to
drive women crazy.”
1974
155 min
Color
1.85:1
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Wed 28 Oct at 11:17 AM
valérie
it’s a bit lame of you to carry on with the Halloween and scary thema! ! it has absolutely nothing to do with A woman under the influence! Bad Humour!
Wed 28 Oct at 12:14 PM
Anita
I like it. It’s scary, but in a different way; It horrified me more than any zombie movie I’ve ever seen!
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