Opening Night
While in the midst of rehearsals for her latest play, Broadway actor Myrtle Gordon (Gena Rowlands) witnesses the accidental death of an adoring young fan, after which she begins to confront the chaos of her own life. Headlined by a virtuoso performance by Rowlands, John Cassavetes’s Opening Night lays bare the drama of a performer who, at great personal cost, makes a part her own, and it functions as a metaphor for the director’s singular, wrenched-from-the-heart creative method.
Special Features
- New, high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
- New conversation between actors Gena Rowlands and Ben Gazzara
- New interview with producer and director of photography Al Ruban
- Audio interview with director John Cassavetes from the 1970s
- Trailers
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
Available In
Collector's Set
Special Features
- New, high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
- New conversation between actors Gena Rowlands and Ben Gazzara
- New interview with producer and director of photography Al Ruban
- Audio interview with director John Cassavetes from the 1970s
- Trailers
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
Cast
- Gena Rowlands
- Myrtle Gordon
- John Cassavetes
- Maurice Aarons
- Ben Gazzara
- Manny Victor
- Joan Blondell
- Sarah Goode
- Paul Stewart
- David Samuels
- Zohra Lampert
- Dorothy Victor
- Laura Johnson
- Nancy Stein
- John Tuell
- Gus Simmons
Credits
- Director
- John Cassavetes
- Writer
- John Cassavetes
- Producer
- Al Ruban
- Executive producer
- Sam Shaw
- Associate producer
- Michael Lally
- Sound/Composed music
- Bo Harwood
- Cinematography
- Al Ruban
- Camera operators
- Frederick Elmes
- Camera operators
- Michael Ferris
- Editing
- Tom Cornwell
- Art director
- Bryan Ryman
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