John Cassavetes - Love Streams (1984)

Posted By : newland | Date : 02 Feb 2008 19:44:00 | Comments : 12 |

Cassavetes' last film about a brother, a famous writer, and sister, recently divorced, both undergoing crisis of identity.
As Husbands, Love Streams is still not available in the US on video in any form.

Unavailable on DVD (except on a French import), Love Streams is at once a culmination of the director's obsessions and his most atypical film. It's a movie that gives up its mysteries slowly—flirting with theatricality, inserting dream sequences, concluding on a brazenly surreal enigma. Cassavetes stars as Robert Harmon, a tough-guy novelist with unorthodox research methods. Rowlands, magnificent as ever, is Robert's sister, Sarah Lawson, a divorcée who turns up at his doorstep with two taxis full of luggage and an entire barnyard menagerie. An emotional live wire and by default a social rebel, the embarrassingly demonstrative Sarah is kindred spirit to A Woman Under the Influence's unhinged housewife Mabel Longhetti and Opening Night's aging stage star Myrtle Gordon: All are women with a raw-nerved, overwhelming capacity and need for love. The enormously moving interplay between Cassavetes and Rowlands gets at the heart of the performative spectacle unique to his films: an interaction beyond words and gestures, predicated on the invention of a shared language so hyperbolic and specific and almost inexplicable it must be love. Indeed, the movie—as its title suggests—performs an anatomy of its subject. More explicitly metaphysical than the other great Cassavetes films, it nonetheless shares their view of love as a way of life and a form of madness. The Village Voice

This is a late great work of a master director. It is one of the most original films I have ever seen, though Cassavetes work was mostly improvised and so always had a spontaneous and creative feel. Love Streams is so good because it is the work of a highly creative mind at the height of his talents. It is haunting in its depiction of an unusual brother and sister and their love for each other and for family (in the case of the sister played by the great Gena Rowlands in a beautiful, though at times scary, performance.) More than anything it is a study of the meaning of love itself. The look of the film and the editing alone make this one worth watching. IMDB review

IMDB review — DVD description

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Posted By: AlainB Date: 02 Feb 2008 23:37:48

thanks a lot for that great movie!
Unavalaible in the US !?!?
Very weird people!!

alain

Posted By: Irrstern Date: 05 Feb 2008 18:26:26

thnx for the share-these r really rare flicks.do you have "the killing of a chinese bookie"?

Posted By: soloasoloa Date: 19 Feb 2008 16:58:09

Dear "newland", thank you for all your postings at avaxhome! Some months ago i downloaded a "Love Streams" torrent file, but i coundn't find subtitles for it anywhere. Once i can't fully enjoy the movie withou english or spanish subtitles, you would help me a lot uploading the subtitles for your Love Strams file on rapidshare. If you could do this, i would be very thankful.

Posted By: jamielthunder Date: 06 Mar 2008 03:40:29

Can someone upload at rapidshare the english subtitles for this movie?

Posted By: jamielthunder Date: 06 Mar 2008 03:50:56

ENGLISH OR SPANISH SUBTITLES ARE WELCOME! PLEASE.. HE ALL HAVE THE DIVX FILE WITHOUT SUBTITLES AND ITS IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND IT!

Posted By: jamielthunder Date: 06 Mar 2008 03:51:30

ENGLISH OR SPANISH SUBTITLES ARE WELCOME! WE ALL HAVE THE DIVX MOVIE FILE WITHOUT SUBTITLES AND ITS IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND IT!

Posted By: harry caul Date: 08 Jan 2009 17:48:53

thank you very much.

Posted By: newland Date: 25 Jan 2009 15:24:05

Subtitles (french & spanish) :

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Posted By: Sesitos77 Date: 02 Feb 2009 00:32:10

Thanks so very much.

Posted By: monkeytree5 Date: 24 Mar 2010 07:30:59

amazing newland! Criminally unavailable to buy. thanks!

Posted By: kadmis Date: 17 May 2011 09:05:37

Thanks, Scalisto, for allowing me to improve my knowledge from Cassavetes' films !

Posted By: LOCURS Date: 06 Oct 2011 09:59:10

Muchas gracias!

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