Directed by:
Richard ShepardComposer:
Adam GorgoniCast:
John Cazale (a.f.), Steve Buscemi, Sam Rockwell, Al Pacino, Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Richard Shepard, Francis Ford Coppola, Richard Dreyfuss (more)Plots(1)
"Sure, that's Fredo," responds a random passerby after the director of this documentary portrait shows him a photograph of the conspicuously familiar face of an actor whose name he can't quite remember. John Cazale (1935–1978), one of the most intriguing acting personalities of the 1970s, appeared in five famous films before his exceptionally promising career was cut short by a debilitating illness and premature death. The Godfather: Parts I and II, The Conversation, Dog Day Afternoon, and The Deer Hunter. All five movies were nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award, and that's thanks in part to the unmistakable charisma of this multifaceted actor. Many admire the human qualities and acting prowess of the man with a gloomy expression and sometimes a thin mustache, including his close friend Al Pacino, onetime partner Meryl Streep, Francis Ford Coppola, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Sam Rockwell, Steve Buscemi, Sidney Lumet, and Brett Ratner. (Karlovy Vary International Film Festival)
(more)Cast
John Cazale (a.f.)
USA
Best movies:
The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980 (1992) (TV movie)
The Godfather: A Novel for Television (1977) (series)
The Godfather (1972)
Steve Buscemi
USA
Best movies:
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Reservoir Dogs (1992)
Monsters, Inc. (2001)
Sam Rockwell
USA
Best movies:
The Green Mile (1999)
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
Box of Moon Light (1996)
Al Pacino
USA
Best movies:
The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980 (1992) (TV movie)
The Godfather: A Novel for Television (1977) (series)
The Godfather (1972)
Meryl Streep
USA
Best movies:
Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
Out of Africa (1985)
The Deer Hunter (1978)
Philip Seymour Hoffman
USA
Best movies:
Mary and Max (2009)
Scent of a Woman (1992)
Cold Mountain (2003)
Richard Shepard
USA
Best movies:
Scotland, PA. (2001)
Francis Ford Coppola
USA
Best movies:
Apocalypse Now (1979)
War Hunt (1962)
Palo Alto (2013)
Richard Dreyfuss
USA
Best movies:
The Graduate (1967)
Jaws (1975)
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990)
Brett Ratner
USA
Best movies:
Scarface (1983)
Black and White (1999)
The Grand (2007)
Sidney Lumet
USA
Best movies:
The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
Olympia Dukakis
USA
Best movies:
The Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (1994)
Cloudburst (2011)
Mr. Holland's Opus (1995)
Israel Horovitz
USA
Best movies:
James Dean (2001) (TV movie)
Sunshine (1999)
The Strawberry Statement (1970)
Gene Hackman
USA
Best movies:
Mississippi Burning (1988)
Enemy of the State (1998)
Unforgiven (1992)
Carol Kane
USA
Best movies:
Annie Hall (1977)
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
Man on the Moon (1999)
Robert De Niro
USA
Best movies:
The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980 (1992) (TV movie)
The Godfather: A Novel for Television (1977) (series)
The Godfather: Part II (1974)
John Savage
USA
Best movies:
The Godfather: Part III (1990)
Hair (1979)
The Deer Hunter (1978)
Fred Roos
USA