"He appeared in only five movies. All five of his movies were nominated for Best Picture. He worked with the best actors of his generation. He played one of the most iconic characters in film history. Yet today, most people don't even know his name." So read the title cards that open "I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale," which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2009 and is designed as a corrective to the mass ignorance surrounding one of most overlooked American actors of the 1970s. But does it succeed in revealing the man beneath those iconic cinematic images? Let's find out.
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
Directed by Richard Shepard
Tweetable Plot Synopsis: A brief documentary on the life actor John Cazale, who made only five movies in short career, all of them nominated for Best Picture.
Biggest Success: Cazale died in 1978 at the...
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
Directed by Richard Shepard
Tweetable Plot Synopsis: A brief documentary on the life actor John Cazale, who made only five movies in short career, all of them nominated for Best Picture.
Biggest Success: Cazale died in 1978 at the...
- 11/9/2010
- by Matt Singer
- ifc.com
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