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<BODY bgcolor="#CCCC99"> <font size="4"><br>John Cassavetes: Five Films--Shadows, Faces, A Woman Under the Influence, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, and Opening Night.</font> <font size="2"> <br>DVD review by Matthew Kennedy</font> <font size=3 face="Book Antiqua,Century Schoolbook,Times New Roman"> <p>At first glance, the Criterion Collection's massive eight-disc encasement of five John Cassavetes movies may look like a hodgepodge of the late director's work. Why include <i>The Killing of a Chinese Bookie</i> but not <i>Minnie and Moskowitz</i> or <i>Gloria</i>? Is there some order here, or is this what could get licensed? Isn't $124.95 a bit steep? Turns out that the movies contained herein--<i>Shadows</i>, <i>Faces</i>, <i>A Woman Under the Influence</i>, <i>Chinese Bookie</i>, and <i>Opening Night</i>--represent those titles over which Cassavetes had complete artistic control. </body>