My take on Casavettes

I haven't seen all his movies yet, but here are my unasked-for opinions:

• Faces - Fantastic.  The scene where the businessmen have a job title pissing contest to see who will win the attentions of the lady is stamped into my cortex. [imdb|amazon]
• Killing of a Chinese Bookie - It was ok.  Didn't really understand why this is considered to be one of his three masterpieces.  Maybe I was in the wrong frame of mind. [imdb|amazon]
• Opening Night - Is it wrong to say that my favorite parts of this movie were when Gena Rowlands melted down onstage and John Casavettes was humorously unsympathetic? [imdb|amazon]
• Gloria - Two words: child actor.  Terrible. [imdb|amazon]
• Shadows - Borderline unwatchable.  If I was a film student I'd probably have been able to find some redeeming quality, but I'm not a film student.  To be honest I shut it off about halfway through, so maybe its unwatchability is not borderline. [imdb|amazon]

Obviously I still haven't seen a couple of the other important ones, but there you have it.