A Child Is Waiting
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This may be the best movie ever made about jazz, at least by a mainstream Hollywood company. John Cassavetes had not yet dropped out of the L.A. scene to write and direct his own indie movies, and Too Late Blues represents one of his final attempts to try and do something different and ofbeat within the framework of The Big Time of movie-making.
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an aggregate score of 80% based on 8 positive and 2 negative critic reviews. Legacy. The conflicts in the film paralleled Cassavetes' own difficulties adapting to the studio system, embodied by the Ghost's conflict with Benny.
Too Late Blues: Directed by John Cassavetes. With Bobby Darin, Stella Stevens, Everett Chambers, Nick Dennis. Ghost is an ideological musician who would rather play his blues in the park to the birds than compromise himself.
- (1.5K)
- Drama, Music
- John Cassavetes
- 1962-03-28
A jazz-band pianist (Bobby Darin) bottoms out because of a blonde (Stella Stevens), then tries for a comeback.
- (11)
- Bobby Darin
- John Cassavetes
- Drama
Reviews. Dec 31, 1961 11:00pm PT. Too Late Blues. John Cassavetes' first Hollywood-made project shows a tendency to force casebook psychology on the characters at a loss of spontaneity. Thus an...
Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Justine Smith Vague Visages. While other films produced within the studio system share themes and archetypes with Too Late Blues, none quite...
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Jul 20, 2014 · As a result of taking a more formal approach to his storytelling, Too Late Blues is one of the most classically beautiful films in Cassavetes’s filmography, and it is extremely well-served by Masters of Cinema’s new (Region B locked) Blu-ray release. The aforementioned, abyss-like shadows do indeed seem to extend forever into inky darkness.
