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YEAR: 1974
DIRECTOR: John Cassavetes
PINBALL MODEL(S): It is difficult to know for sure, but it is likely a Williams 'Lucky Strike' or 'Bowl a Strike' model.
GAME LOCATION: Bar/Tavern
NOTES: Cassavetes' films rarely stray far from the "familiar," but part of his great genius as a filmmaker is his ability to nudge the familiar into the social margins. In this story of a woman succumbing to the traumas of a mental breakdown, the local pub becomes an environment of vulnerability. The pinball machine itself has nothing to do with the story, but does achieve a spatially locative effect (along with the cigarette machine). The pin also serves to increase the density of the filmic space by saturating the frame with more of the red/blue accents of the scene's color palate.
