About the Author

Michael Ventura wrote and directed the documentary I'm Almost Not Crazy: John Cassavetes, the Man and His Work, and was curator of the Sundance Festival's 1989 Cassavetes retrospective. His screenwriting credits include Echo Park, directed by Robert Dornhelm. As a journalist, Ventura has received a USA PEN award, a Los Angeles Press Club award and the Upton Sinclair Award. He has published three novels and several books of non-fiction.

Reviews

Michael Ventura's stunning Cassavetes Directs - a caustic and boisterously detailed cine-biography
*Vertigo Magazine Volume 3*