EPISODE · May 18, 2022 · 57 MIN
Gloria (1980 Venice Film Festival Winner)
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The ninth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1980 features the Venice International Film Festival Golden Lion winner, John Cassavetes’ Gloria. Written and directed by John Cassavetes and starring Gena Rowlands, John Adames, Julie Carmen and Buck Henry, Gloria tied with Louis Malle’s Atlantic City for the Golden Lion at the 1980 Venice International Film Festival.The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Roger Ebert (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/gloria-1998), Vincent Canby in The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/1980/10/01/arts/cassavetess-gloria-moll-and-a-boy.html), and Jonathan Rosenbaum in the SoHo News (https://jonathanrosenbaum.net/2021/02/every-critique-for-itself/).Please like, share, rate and comment on the show and this episode, and tune in for the next 1980 installment, featuring the Academy Awards Best Picture winner, Robert Redford’s Ordinary People.
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The ninth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1980 features the Venice International Film Festival Golden Lion winner, John Cassavetes’ Gloria. Written and directed by John Cassavetes and starring Gena Rowlands, John Adames, Julie Carmen and Buck Henry, Gloria tied with Louis Malle’s Atlantic City for the Golden Lion at the 1980 Venice International Film Festival.
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