Gabriel Ferreira’s Reviews > Cassavetes on Cassavetes > Status Update

"Tom Bower, a friend who dated back to Cassavetes’ Variety Arts days, described the filmmaker’s mood of dis-couragement after the screening Bower attended, and how he afterwards ‘watched him walk alone across the street to a bar. It was an unforget-table image of him, ashen face, smoking a cigarette, stomach distended, looking as though the weight of the world had fallen upon him.’'