When Gena Rowlands, wife of director/actorJohn Cassavetes, expressed her interest in appearing in a play about the difficulties that contemporary women had to face in the early 1970s, John Cassavetes wrote a script so emotionally profound and exhausting Rowlands immediately understood it would be too much for her to perform it eight times a week. Cassavetes turned the play into a screenplay for the big screen, but A Woman Under the Influence was too much for Hollywood studios and producers to swallow.  Fortunately, both for Cassavetes and for all of us in the audience, the filmmaking couple had a lot of friends who fell in love with the powerful script and who were willing to chip in and even become a part of the project. Peter Falk provided half a million dollars of his own money just so he could watch his friend’s impressive vision turn into a movie. Cassavetes himself mortgaged his house. The crew consisted of both professionals and students from the American Film Institute, where the director worked as the first filmmaker in residence. Rowlands did her own hair and makeup, Cassavetes and Rowland’s mothers were cast—the budget was very limited, but the production had heart and guts, and one hell of a talent behind the camera. . .  [source]

Back home city (San Francisco) movie:  Jackson, best dog; Bernal Hts to downtown.

Claire Marrable (Geraldine Page) quote about Chloe the stray dog, the only one who can almost stop Claire:   "Chloe is a tramp. I have not taken loving and diligent care of my garden to have it wrecked by this vagrant bitch.”

Ruth Gordon (Alice Demmock) poses as a maid for Geraldine Page (Claire Marrable) in hopes of discovering what happened to Edna Tinsley, her former housekeeper and companion, only Gordon gets more than she bargained after uncovering Page's dark secrets.  

Ruth Gordon (Aunt Alice) is tough and gives Claire a good fight, but how do you top Geraldine Page as merciless over-the-top Claire Marrable?

A Pakistani DJ (Atta Yaqub) romance with a separated but still married Irish-Catholic music teacher (Eva Birthistle) immigrant tears apart the DJ's close-knit Muslim immigrant family (The Khans) because of culture and religion differences in Glasgow.  Director Ken Loach.

Jody Travis (Lori Loughlin) and Gavin Wylie (Mark Arnold)

"And why take you thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toll not, nor do they spin . . . "

It selects a TV Movie called 'BEHEMOTH" from the SyFy Channel. One film you never expected to like because of your dislike of SyFy Channel's silly breathless plot movies and so many commercials you always switched channels and never saw the ending.

BUT BEFORE you sit up to search for something else or turn it off, you see Ed Quinn, an actor you've probably seen in the past (OMG! He's gorgeous, was born in Berkeley! in your Universe when you  were there) but never noticed until now at 4 a.m...

A mad projectionist (Robert Englund) takes Michael Powell’s cult “Peeping Tom” horror film to another level when he traps an innocent couple in an empty theater using a cheap digital camcorder to film their nightmare.