There is something fascinating about watching Rowlands through Cassavetes’s lens, first as the rakish escort Jeannie, and then as middle-aged mother Sarah, both of whom seem to wander like lost souls ...

Gena Rowlands is, much like black coffee and Tom Waits, a taste you acquire as you get smarter. She attracts words like “formidable” and phrases like “a force of nature,” concepts that seem to be at ...

Gena Rowlands in the 1968 film, ‘Faces.’ United Archives/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Gena Rowlands, the singular actress whose career in Hollywood spanned nearly 60 years, died on Wednesday, August 14 ...

The celebrated actress was both muse and motor for her husband John Cassavetes — half of an artistic partnership that would help transform American cinema. By Jordan Mintzer In the history of American ...

Gena Rowlands, whose seminal and fearless performance in “A Woman Under the Influence” inspired a generation and who starred in many other John Cassavetes features as well as the romance “The Notebook ...

Gena Rowlands, hailed as one of the greatest actors to ever practice the craft and a guiding light in independent cinema as a star in groundbreaking movies by her director husband, John Cassavetes, ...