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        < Page 9 < 10 Ray Carney's Mailbag -- This section of the site contains letters written to Prof. Carney by students and artists, announcements of news, events, and screenings, and miscellaneous observations about life and art by Ray Carney. Letters and notices submitted by readers are in black. Prof. Carney's responses, observations, and recommendations are in blue. Note that Prof. Carney receives many more letters and announcements than he can possibly include on the site. The material on these pages has been selected as being that which will be the most interesting, inspiring, useful, or informative to site readers. Click on the first page (via the links at the top or bottom of the page) 
        to read an explanation of this material, why it is being posted, and how this relatively small selection was made from among the tens of thousands of messages Prof. Carney has received.         Click 
  here for best printing of text  Dear Professor, I was wondering if you knew a resource where I can obtain screenplays
        by John Cassavetes. I've searched on the Web and found scripts only by
        Nick, nothing from his father. I'm interested to know how the read is
        different from the films - regarding the improvisational spirit of the
        action in the films: how does it read on paper? Of course I've checked
        Amazon and Barnes and Nobles but apparently these two venues are too
        mainstream and nothing seems to be published. Other screenplays
        resources online proved to be useless also. Do you know? Can you
      help? Can you point me in the right direction? Thanks again and my warmest regards,Matthew
 Matthew Marchisano, Artistic DirectorThe MD Marchisano Cinema Ensemble, Inc.
 Ray Carney replies:         None of the unpublished material has been made available in the fifteen
          years after JC's death. I know publishers who are interested, but Gena
          Rowlands refuses. Of course, I have all of them or most of them as
          gifts, but obviously can't go against Rowlands's wishes. She'd prob.
          try to throw me in jail anyway, if I did distribute them. (Not a joke
          or exaggeration. I assume you have seen her dirty tricks about the
          lost first version of Shadows I discovered. She didn't exactly write
          me a thank you note! If you don't know what I'm talking about, go to
          my web site under the John Cassavetes:
          Shadows: News section for a
          good laugh or cry.) Rowlands is not really interested in this material.
          Guess you could say she just doesn't get it..... in so many different
          ways...........  RC 
 Prof. Carney,         Too bad ... and she's such a good performer ... Thanks,Matthew
   Ray 
        Carney replies:         That's the fallacy! Rowlands is NOT Mabel Longhetti or Myrtle
        Gordon or Sarah Lawson. She's not even close to being like them. Those
        were
        roles....parts she played, all imagined and written by JC. They are
        NOT Rowlands! They are acting! But you'd be amazed at how hard it is
        for people, even so-called sophisticated people like critics and
        reviewers, to understand this. You'd just as likely find Rene Falconetti
        leading an army or having visions from God as find Gena cooking spaghetti
        for a bunch of construction workers or
        walking down the street in mismatched clothes or waiting for her kids
        to get off the
        school bus that way. But people can't seem to make the separation.
        Funny how naive people are. You might as well believe Henry Fonda was
        a farmer living in the dust bowl or Marilyn Monroe was a singer with
        a band. But movies make people stupid. Such is life. Such is art. Repeat
        after me ten times: It's a movie. It's not life. Gena is NOT Mabel! I
        say this in the C on C book five different ways, but no one seems to
        take it in, in all of its depth. And it's critical to the understanding
      of John's work!  RC 
 Prof. Carney,         I am seeking a filmscript, DVD, or tape, in that order of preference,
          of the Cassavetes film Husbands. My search so far has been fruitless.
          Do you know how a filmscript and/or copy might be obtained? If not,
          have you any suggestions that might be helpful?
 Thanks.
 Joel Hirsch
         Ray Carney replies:         In terms of the scripts, see my reply to a similar inquiry on page nine
          of my letters pages (just above this on this page). I have three or
          four versions of the film script, but am not allowed to distribute
          them, unfortunately.  In
              terms of videos, it's evidence of the state of appreciation of
              Cassavetes' work, even fifteen
          years after his death, that the film has never made
          it to DVD. A VHS tape was released about five years ago, but in such
          a small run that I have been told that it is now going for $200 on
          Ebay or similar collectors' sites. But save your money. What the Ebay
          bidders and the collectors don't realize is that the tape doesn't have
          the entire film. More than ten minutes of the version Cassavetes released
          is missing, just as it is from the so-called "restored" UCLA
          print. Welcome to America. Money, power, and celebrity talk and art
          goes begging.         Someday, in heaven (if we're both so lucky) ask me again and
        I'll show you everything I have, including deleted scenes and outtakes.
        I describe
          some of this material in my Cassavetes on Cassavetes book—though
          in a deliberately veiled way. Check it out. (Click
          here to
          find out how
          to buy it.) While we're still back here on earth, we have to live with
          what is, not what ought to be. Cassavetes knew that too. It's the genius
          of his work.         Cheers,  RC 
 Prof. Carney:  A thought about the unfair,
          unfortunate situation you have been placed in: We live in a capitalistic
          democracy - the capitalist side is sooo
          out of whack... That's why "it's all about money and profits" is
          so strong these days. Americans have sold their souls and their values
          to the highest bidder. Makes me think of the "pendulum" theory
          I learned about in sociology class, about the only thing that gives
          me hope these days. Everything will swing in one direction until it
          goes too far to the right. Then there will be a counterreaction that
          will change the movement back toward the left. Then vice versa, etc.,
          etc., etc. I hope election day marks the counterreaction to current "business
          as usual"!!!! We can only hope...
 It is extremely hard to be the pioneer and break through rigid structures
        and concrete paradigms. People either tend to distort anything new to
        fit it into their existing paradigms or throw it away as having no value.
        Their thought patterns have to be retrained. Which is what you do! It
        just takes time. You are a pioneer in spirit, and I imagine that is one
        reason why you love John's work so much. Keep fighting and swinging away!
 
 MJ
         Ray Carney replies: Thanks
              for the thought and the moral support. I pray for the future of
              my country. I despair I mean. Our culture and world are in a bad
              way.
        Very sick. Very screwed up. Very confused. And TV and the politicians
        are wrong about it as usual. The problems we face have nothing to do
        with Bin Laden, Al-Qaeda, or the war in Iraq (as wrong as that is).
            Those things are just the symptoms of the real problem—the
            surface rash the deathly disease manifests as it kills. What's wrong
            is our values,
        our
        priorities, our failures of knowledge in a thousand deeper ways. The
        real problem is our neglect of—or ignorance about—fundamental
        human values brought on by our selfishness, our greed, our fear, our
        spiritual
        emptiness, and our failures to love and care about the things that really
      matter.   It's 
        the job of the artist to break free from the lies and superficialities 
        of the media, the politicians, and the businessmen—and 
        to show us what those real problems are, and to bring us back to the things 
        that really matter. But it's hard. All of the forces of our culture are 
        arrayed against the truths artists reveal, which is why we need artists 
        all the more—to tell us things no one 
        else is saying, no one else wants to hear.  I
              hope there is a pendulum effect. But I'm
            not convinced there is. I do know that there is no sanctuary from
              the forces of money, power, celebrity. Those we would customarily
              look
            to as alternatives to the business values of our culture—professors,
            university administrators, journalists, critics, cultural commentators,
            and many so-called artists—are as compromised and corrupted
            as our businessmen and politicians. Well, now that I think of it....there
            are alternatives: mothers and fathers who love their children, elementary
            school teachers, nurses, priests, nuns, social workers, ministers,
            care givers, and lovers of every sort. So maybe, just maybe, there
            is hope. I hope so.         PS. You might want to read C. Wright Mills on this subject...... he has
          some beautiful pieces.  RC 
 Subject: Necessary Experiences/Life/Art/Cassavetes         Prof. Carney, Thank you for sending me a
          special free copy of "Necessary Experiences." I
        was very surprised! My fiance Dennis had been in touch with you - I know
          it!
        Thank you. Your words are, as usual, inspirational, honest, pensive,
        and a
        joy to read as I tread the waters and strange terrain of living life
        as the
        artist that I know I am and balancing all of the unfortunate ills of
        our
        society: Pop culture, Capitalism, and everyone's sick need for fame and
      fortune at the expense of the spirit and the power of art. You are an inspiration to independent filmmakers and Artists everywhere. WE love you. Thank you, Corinna J. FleckEmpty Space Productions
 NYC
         Ray Carney replies:         Dear Corrina, I've never met your boyfriend Dennis but when he asked me if I could
        send
        you a copy as a present and suggested a possible inscription, I knew
        he was a special guy and you were a
        special kind of woman. So I wanted to make it my present too, which is
      why I insisted he not pay. Thanks
              for your kind words and deep thoughts. We must all hold onto our
              souls and follow that
          star, not the ones the world
        delusively offers. To do anything for money or fame is the wrong
        reason. The only right reason is for love and giving. I just spoke
        this afternoon at a Boston U. open house for grad students visiting a
        number
        of different schools and told them if some teacher or dean stood up
        and told them that if they attended their school they could becomes rich
        or
        famous some day, they should run for the door. I told them the only reason
        to
        go to grad school was to have a chance to explore themselves and our
        crazy, messed up culture so that they might come to some understanding
        of themselves and it—and eventually be able to communicate their
        understanding to others. Needless to say, that's NOT what most of TV
        or the movies
        are about! In our brief time here we must try to understand who we are
        and what really matters, and try to bring our feelings of love and kindness
        and our understandings to others. I know from your letter that that is
      what you are doing in your own way.  So
              in conclusion I don't wish you worldly success. It's a curse! I
              don't wish you luck.You don't need it! I wish you growth and change
              and re-evaluation
          and understanding and a continuous series of ever new understandings
          different from your old understandings—and of course having a
          wild, scary, thrilling, spiritually rewarding adventure as you move
          through
          it all. Life is an adventure if we are brave enough to let it be one,
          to take chances, to risk everything to make it one.  To
              quote the immortal Lenny Bruce, keep "digging" ever deeper,
        and keep having those "necessary experiences!" RC  (To buy the "Necessary 
        Experiences" packet or any of the three packets of thoughts on life 
        and art by Prof. Carney, click 
        here.) 
 Dear Mr. Carney, I am a big fan of John Cassavetes and, by extension, you. I admire the
        sheer courage it took him, and now you, to get your work done and out
        before the public. I have read nearly everything you've written about
        John Cassavetes... along with chunks of your book on Dreyer and many
        of your articles in film magazines about the artistic process. It is very disturbing to read about your difficulties with Gena Rowlands
        and Al Ruban. Of course I don't have to mention how ironic it is that
        both Cassavetes and now you have suffered from being blackballed by establishment-type
        figures. But the desire to pinup a fairytale-style happy face on life is something
        that Cassavetes faced in his working life. He refused to yield to it,
        even when it could have done him some (financial) good. None of his characters
        were one-dimensional. None were all-heroic, nor all bad, but the general
        public seems to unable to accept this. The fact that Cassavetes could
        be abusive to his wife and cast, an alcoholic, and a huckster at times,
        doesn't mean he was a rat and unworthy of admiration. It simply means
        he was human, like anyone else. Yet he managed to produce great art.
        To me that is pretty inspiring. Of course you know all this. Still, I just don't know why people need
        to see their heroes as glowing Jesuses or selfless knights in white armor.
        I think this tendency to for people to view life in a fairytale, unreal,
        light leads to a hell of lot of problems... look at the presidential
        race. What makes people so afraid? Is it fear or money, I don't know. But thanks for fighting the good fight. If it were not for your continued
        persistence in championing his work and intelligently pointing out its
        virtues, I am afraid that Cassavetes' films may have been shunned aside
        and left in the proverbial dustbin of film history long ago. Jack Florek,New Jersey
 
 Subject: A fan.         Sir, As I know you're a busy man, I will keep it quite brief. I am taking
        classes at the New School University and enrolled at Sarah Lawrence
      College. I have just been introduced
          to John Cassavetes. I read your book on "
        Shadows", and some of your essays about how and why film is taught
        the
        way it is taught. In short, I find your message uplifting and as an
        aspiring filmmaker, absolutely necessary. Cassavetes was a genius, and
        his films have completely changed the way I look at American Cinema,
        and
        Cinema in general. I feel, very strongly, that my exposure to John
        Cassavetes has in some way changed my overall vision and outlook on my
        life in film, and having your writings supplementing my new discovery,
        I
        am climbing onward and upward. Thank you so much, for everything that
        you
        do. I greatly appreciate it, and feel in debt to you. Thank you for your
      time. With respect,Marcus M. Silverman
         Ray Carney replies:         Marcus,         Thanx
              for the good words. But you must broaden your reading and viewing.
          Cassavetes is only one figure. Mike Leigh is the great contemporary
          Cassavetes. Look at his work. Read my book on him for starters. Then
              look at his work again. Then look at his work again. Then glance
              at the book again. But keep in mind the work is the real teacher,
              not the book. The book is just a traveller's guide to tell you
              what peak to look for, what colors it can show in the light. Mike
              Leigh is the real teacher. Artists are the deepest critics of their
              own work and of other work. Not critics. After you've mastered
              the book, throw it out and let the art and artist teach you the
          rest that you need to know. Leigh
              is a good place to start, but you have to do a lot more of course.
          Conquer the rest of the world. Study at the feet of all of the great
          geniuses. Let them teach you what they knew. Master the other great
          artists. Skip the junk, the pop culture, the trendy stupid "hot
          news" in Time Out and Sight and Sound and Film Culture, and work
          through all of the major figures in film:Tarkovsky, Bresson, Ozu, Kiarostami,
          Dreyer, Chaplin, Rossellini, Jay Rosenblatt, Tom Noonan, Su Friedrich,
          Jean
          Renoir, and fifty more.... !!!         Then
              go beyond film and master Bach, Beethoven, Corelli, Albinoni, Vivaldi
          and a couple dozen others. Study inside-out the structure of the Goldberg
          Variations, of BWV 1042, of the double violin concerto in D-minor,
          of the B-minor Mass. Eat, sleep, breathe, master them.  Do
              the other arts: dance, opera, sculpture, painting, stand-up comedy....
              See my "Recommendations for Entering Students" letter
              on the About Ray Carney: Boston University page
          of my site for more ideas. Read my "What's Wrong with.....", my "Necessary Experiences," my "Why
          Art Mattters." All are available for purchase via the site. (Click
          here to find them.)         These works and artists are essential, required, mandatory. They will
          bring you to life. Take you away from the death and negativism the
          rest of the culture is devoted to instilling.         Forgive the furious haste of this. I have miles to go before I sleep.........Go,
          man, go!       R. Click 
        here 
        to learn about Ray Carney's book on Mike Leigh. 
 Professor Carney, I was never officially a student of yours, but I often blew off my required
        science class to sneak in and sit in the back row of your lectures at
          COM--in
        1990, I saw my first Cassavetes film (A Woman Under the Influence)during
        one
      such lecture and (not to overstate it)it changed me. In the intervening years, I've vigorously pursued the path of writing
        and just
        yesterday finished a draft of my first novel. For any writer this is
        momentous,
        and I feel moved to write a quick note to let you know how significant
        a role
        you unknowingly played. Whenever I felt inspiration lagging, struggled
        with the
        guts of a scene, and all those other pitfalls, I would log onto your
        website and
        read (the path of the artist essays in particular). It would always provide
        the
        jolt required to keep going; virtually any point you made in the text
        was
        applicable not only to film, but any other medium in which a person might
      labor. So--essentially--I wanted to thank you for the inspiration, the web
        site, and
        the film suggestions, too (man, film is as much goldmine for the
        larcenous-hearted writer as any book). Pay day comes next week, and I'll
        be
        ordering the three packets of essays, which I very much look forward
      to reading. (Click
      here to learn about that material.) I hope you realize that many more people aside from your students have
        benefitted enormously from your efforts.       Jonathan Dixon Ray Carney replies: Jonathan, Thanks for the kind words. And good luck with your novel. This culture
        can be hard on artists (the understatement of the week).  But keep going. It matters! Otherwise the businessmen win. Ray 
 To: Ray_CarneyFrom: Lucas Sabean
 Subject: Nice Quote
 Here is a good one from Bill Hicks. It is such a shame he isn't here
        anymore... "The world is like a ride at an amusement park. It goes up and
        down and round and round. It has thrills and chills and it's very brightly
        coloured and it's very loud and it's fun, for a while. Some people have
        been on the ride for a long time and they begin to question, is this
        real, or is this just a ride? And other people have remembered, and they
        come back to us, they say, "hey - don't worry, don't be afraid,
        ever, because, this is just a ride..." And we... kill those people.
        Ha ha "Shut him up." "We have a lot invested in this ride.
        Shut him up. Look at my furrows of worry. Look at my big bank account
        and my family. This just has to be real." It's just a ride. But
        we always kill those good guys who try and tell us that, you ever notice
        that? And let the demons run amok. Jesus murdered; Martin Luther King
        mudered; Malcolm X murdered; Gandhi murdered; John Lennon murdered; Reagan....
        wounded. But it doesn't matter because: It's just a ride.
        And we can change it anytime we want. It's only a choice. No effort,
        no work, no job, no savings and money. A choice, right now, between fear
        and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns,
        close yourself off. The eyes of love, instead, see all of us as one.
        Here's what we can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride.
        Take all that money that we spend on weapons and defences each year and
        instead spend it feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world,
        which it would many times over, not one human being excluded, and we
        could explore space, together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace." Hope you are well, Lucas Ray Carney: 
         To anyone 
        who doesn't know the work of the late and very great Bill Hicks: Go out 
        and get a CD and give it a listen. He's one of the truth-telling miracles, 
        doing one-night stands right next to Lenny Bruce and Richard Pryor in 
        stand-up comics' heaven. A pure sweet genius of insight who died much 
        too young. 
 Hey Ray, One more for your video library... I was at Kim's Video yesterday and saw that there's a DVD of Bill Hicks
        performances just released, including his RELENTLESS material. Looks
        like a packed DVD, and only 16 bucks... I'm going to pick one up soon. Also, Kiarostami's ten is in the racks. When I see anything about Brown Bunny, I'll let you know (Haven't seen
        the film yet, myself). I've heard some funny stories about the shoot... Best wishes, Robert Quirk Ray Carney replies: Thanks Rob! I think I have most of Hicks already (thanks to the kindness
        of bootleg friends!). And thanks for the Brown Bunny info. I knew you'd
        know, if anyone did. Others I'm on the lookout for in good DVD copies
        are Lars Von Trier (Dancer in the Dark strikes me as a certifiable work
        of genius) and early Mike Leigh (I'll never get tired of Bleak Moments,
        Kiss of Death, Abigail's Party, Meantime, High Hopes, Life is Sweet,
        and a few others). Thanks for being my distant early warning system.
        Thank God for Kim's! RC P.S. While 
        I'm thinking of it: Have you seen Nicolas Cage's Sonny? It's an actor's 
        work, with a weak script, but as pure acting has its moments. David Barker's 
        Afraid of Everything is an even greater and more important work. Bressonian 
        in its austerity, capturing the mystery of being as deeply as Bresson 
        does. A three-person drama in one room—a love triangle with depths 
        beyond depths of secrets, silences, and mysteries. I highly recommend 
        it—though I doubt it's available anywhere. I got it from the filmmaker. 
        Barker is this year's Caveh Zahedi or Andrew Bujalski. Why is real greatness 
        always so hard for people to see? While all the critics go panting after 
        the charlatans, the masters of flash and trash, of tricks and stunts and 
        empty-souled jokes—the Lynches, Tarantinos, DePalmas, Coens, and 
        everyone else Pauline Kael would have loved. 
 Professor Carney,
 I just want to thank you for the depth of your thought and the words
        of encouragement to artists that can be found in your writings. At the
        moment, I'm not making any money or selling any of my films. I've applied
        for over forty "real" jobs-- and have yet to secure even a
        single interview. My wife and I are poor, tired of being poor, tired
        of being tired, tired of hanging on until the film sells. Each day, I
        feel more and more like a failure-- but when I came back to some of your
        writing today, it made the burden considerably easier to bear. I'm not
        a great or even important or even original artist-- I create people and
        stories and I do it more-or-less pretty well. That's my small gift and
        I'm content with it. But what I'm doing is not mindless or mediocre or
        dumbed-down (I hope). And your thoughts about art and artists make this
        struggle more worthwhile. This didn't come out quite right, but I'm basically
      saying thank you-- your words have given me comfort in these hard times.
         Name withheld         Ray Carney replies:         I appreciate your kind words. Sorry to hear things are so discouraging.
          It's no different for most of the people who write me.         It's hard to do good work in this culture. The soul's creations are never
          valued. It's always an uphill battle. Even Jesus only had twelve followers.
          And one of them was a fink!         I don't know what to say. My life isn't so glamorous either, if that's
          any consolation. It's always a struggle to do good work. It's why I
          feel a bond with so many young or beginning filmmakers. We're all in
          the same boat.... and sometimes it feels like it is sinking! All I
          know is that we can't measure anything important in terms of money
          or worldly success. But of course we can't live on our good looks either!
          : )   I was talking
          to a friend last night who is so discouraged by the recent election
          stupidity (proof that de Tocqueville was right: democracy
          does not work, mediocrity triumphs) that she is seriously considering
          moving to Canada. All I could tell her was that going somewhere else
          solves nothing. It all comes down to whatever love and kindness we
          can give to the world within fifty feet around us—the
          people in our family, our friends, our students, our loved ones. And
          in Canada or
          the U.S., that fifty foot circle will be the same, and will be whatever
          we make it. But I know that doesn't help her—or
          you. Just believe that if we do things for the right reasons, there
          is some sort of divinity
          that will guide us to the right place.... and if we do them for the
          wrong (for money or power or popularity) we will never get anywhere
          that really matters......  RC 
 Dear Professor Carney,
 Hello. It's me from the Philippines.
 
 I'd like to share with you a brief statement my friend Emerson told me
        after he caught the a retrospective by great Japanese filmmakers sponsored
        by the Japanese embassy here in Manila a few years back.
 
 At that time, like most of us "pseudo" cinephiles (I use the
        work pseudo because filmmakers like Ozu and Cassavetes don't usually
        register on our viewing radars and director name dropping as much as
        Kurosawa and Tarantino), he was only familiar with Kurosawa as a Japanese
        filmmaker. I had mentioned the festival to him and he was very interested
        to go watch the films. It was almost by accident that he chanced upon
        (if I'm not mistaken with the titles) Autumn Afternoon or Late Autumn.
        He had never heard of Ozu at that time.
 
 It wouldn't prepared him. He was totally wrecked by the film. As he described
        this scene to me between a man and a woman preparing tea, then the woman
        leaving the man alone in the room still preparing the tea, the emotions
        under the surface of the screen threatening to spill out and rise above
        his chin, he said, "I went to see Kurosawa, but I remembered Ozu."
 
 Then some years later, I saw Tokyo Story (finally!). A friend who saw
        Tokyo Story even went as far as to equate Kurosawa with Tarantino as
        compared to Ozu but those things are other stories ...
 
 Many thanks Professor. Your writing and feelings always helps remind
        me that our lives are what my work must be concerned with.
 
 I'm in an internet cafe as I write you this. My boss is texting me to
        go back to the office. I'll send you another e-mail soon.
 
 Stay true,
 JP Carpio
 Ray Carney replies: That's a bit
          hard on Kurosawa, but I take your point. Ozu should be on anyone's "top ten list." So
          should Bresson. And Tarkovsky. And Jay Rosenblatt. And Mark Rappaport.
          And Kiarostami. And a few others.
        The trouble is that everyone wants to follow what's new and hot. But
        as Ezra Pound said, art gives us the news that stays news. All those
        new and hot filmmakers will be old and cold the day after tomorrow. Keep exploring and discovering. That's what it's about. The joy of exploration.
        And finding out for yourself. Not taking anyone's word for it. RC   8 < Page
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