Cazale and Then Some
I’m hoping that I Knew It Was You, Richard Shepard‘s doc about the late John Cazale, is going to air on HBO more than just once — i.e., tomorrow night (6.1) at 8 pm. That’s the only showing I can find on HBO’s site but maybe I’m just too lazy to find the others.
In any event, here’s a review that I posted about 17 months ago:
Richard Shepard‘s I Knew It Was You is a longish short (40 minutes) about the late great John Cazale. He was a brave, talented, funny-looking character actor with a big forehead who didn’t last very long, but left a deep and lasting impression.
Cazale’s masterwork was creating the legendary Fredo — a pathetic but touching figure — in the first two Godfather films. He also played the psychotic, fruit-loopy Sal in Dog Day Afternoon, a surveillance guy named Stan in The Conversation, and another guy named Stan in The Deer Hunter.
And that was it. Five films. A career cut short due to the 42 year-old Cazale dying of cancer right after shooting his Deer Hunter scenes in April 1978. Tough break and horribly sad.
But Cazale is remembered by people who know from great acting, by fans of classic ’70s films, and obviously by his friends and co-workers, most of whom appear in Shepard’s film — onetime girlfriend Meryl Streep, costars Al Pacino, Robert DeNiro, Gene Hackman; directors Francis Coppola and Sidney Lumet ; and modern admirers Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Brett Ratner (who’s also one of the producers).
I Knew It Was You isn’t what I or anyone else would call a shattering work of game-changing genius. It’s just a straight, honest and eloquent remembrance of a very worthy and gifted man. Neat, trim and clean. Anyone who remembers and treasures the way Cazale made Fredo into one of the saddest and most emotionally vulnerable little men of the modern cinema needs to see this.
Nobody explains why Cazale’s Conversation and Deer Hunter characters had the same name. I’m sure there’s a story behind this.
The way Cazale crumpled down to a curb, hung his head and cried out “Papa! Papa” after Marlon Brando‘s Vito Corleone was shot on a street in Little Italy is, for me, indelible and unforgettable.
Like all great artists, Cazale drew from his own hurt and history and put it right out there. Hiding and pretending and putting on a slick movie-actor front weren’t in his vocabulary. He was a man of respect, loyalty and courage. Think of what he might have done if cancer hadn’t come along.
VIA THE PLAYLIST:
Here’s when it plays on HBO: June 1 (8:00-8:45 p.m. ET/PT — debut and 4:50 a.m.), June 3 (1:30 p.m., 11:50 p.m.), June 5 (3:30 p.m.), June 8 (9:30 a.m.), June 11 (5:30 p.m.) and June 13 (10:15 a.m.)
HBO2 playdates: June 9 (9:30 p.m.), June 11 (5:20 a.m.) and June 24 (2:30 p.m.).
It’s airing all month, with even more showings than InSneider has shown above (27 in fact) plus it’s available on demand until July 4th.
Via HBO
HBO OnDemand will almost certainly have it as well.
oops, sorry, didn’t read Larry’s comment.
Sorry forgot the link:
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“Nobody explains why Cazale’s Conversation and Deer Hunter characters had the same name. I’m sure there’s a story behind this.”
I always liked how, in ‘The Godfather’, he’s always talking to “Michael” and in ‘The Deer Hunter’, he’s always talking to “Mike”.
Love him in Dog Day Afternoon. He’s the ticking time bomb that everyone’s worried could go off at any time, but never does. Just the right amount of subtle, unhinged, beneath the surface menace. If they remade that movie today, they’d have his character indiscriminately killing people, to a much less unsettling effect.
His first scene in Godfather I is emblematic of the masterly, startlingly efficient way Coppola establishes characters in the wedding sequence. Vito and Tom Hagen, in the shadows, playing master-of-the-universe. Connie, the carefree bride, dancing away in the sun. Sonny, hothead/Lothario, smashing a reporter’s camera then sneaking off for a quickie with a bridesmaid. Michael, straight-arrow in a war-hero uniform, always observing, always thinking. And Fredo, drunk and not quite all there, but sweetly charming as he meets Kay.
No DVR, Wells?
Is there a bigger tool on the planet than Ratner? Just wondering if I’m alone on this one.
Does anyone else have a resume like that? Sure, just five films, but every one a classic?
There’s no sense in getting too relaxed, buddy.
James Dean was only in three movies, each of which is considered a classic, I guess.
Good call, JA, though Dean had uncredited awards in other films. (IMDB tells me Cazale played a beatnick in 1962′s “The American Way”, which I believe missed out on classic status.)
Tony Roberts. Brief movie career, but hooked up with Woody and Lumet at the right time, and got in Taking of Pelham 1-2-3.
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