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The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)
DVDRip | Language: English | Subtitles: English (.srt) | XviD 640x352 (16:9) | 135 min | 23.976 fps | 73 kbps | 699 Mb
Genre: Noir | RS.com
Chinese Bookie does offer a neat microcosm of Cassavetes in the movie business, with the central conflict between gangsters (i.e., studio money men) and the creative impresario of a strip joint, played with languid competence by Ben Gazzara. Initially, at 135 minutes, the movie was subsequently re-edited by Cassavetes to 109 minutes. This is the 1976 version.
“All would-be hipsters know Cassavetes is revered as the grandfather of modern indie cinema. With his five-and-dime budgets, his mix of amateur and professional actors and crew, his hand-held camera and grainy film stock, today's pauper stylists may crib extensively from his movies. And they do. But what set Cassavetes apart, in addition to being the first, is that his movies are saturated in matters of the heart. Those coarse products of a bygone era aren't rants against an unjust world, or empty exercises in style. They're not even particularly antiestablishment. Lo and behold, they are all about love. It seems Cassavetes was foremost a humanist who lived to record our crazy, mad ways. He more than any filmmaker merged life and art into one, or rather redefined the artifice of movies to approximate life as it is lived.
Matthew Kennedy, Images”
“...The Killing of a Chinese Bookie and Opening Night, two films in which Cassavetes combines his usual concerns about human relationships with a deconstruction of the entertainment industry. Bookie is one of the filmmaker's more problematic works because it purports to be one part genre piece, one part art film. Cosmo Vitelli's adventures certainly have the flavor of film noir, but the piece's engine is character and the plot never gains enough forward momentum to feel like a true genre piece. No, Bookie is best read as an indictment of Hollywood and the dehumanizing effects of consumerism. Vitelli is the dark side of Cassavetes, writ small. His chintzy strip club the vessel of his artistic musings, he writes and directs the amateurish song-and-dance pieces performed by haggard, washed-up actor and emcee Mr. Sophistication and the strippers. Vitelli is a hollow, shallow man, capable of being strong-armed by gangsters into an act as depraved as murder because commerce and exploitation are at the center of every relationship in his life. Because his girlfriend is one of the club's strippers, there is no delineation between his business and this most personal and intimate relationship. It's Cassavetes's harshest indictment of what he considered the shallow, false sexual liberation of the Playboy culture—aped by Hollywood's mostly crass presentation of women—in which sexual union is stripped of intimacy and reduced to a business transaction. So far as Cassavetes is concerned, this objectifying of human beings and lustful pursuit of money for its own sake kills creativity (or procreativity), and renders human beings something lesser—soul-dead automatons.DVD Verdict”
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