SUBJECTS

Authors -- United States -- Drama, Brothers and sisters -- Drama, Divorced parents -- Drama

Love Streams

featuring

Gena Rowlands, John Cassavetes, Diahnne Abbott, Seymour Cassel,

Cassavetes portrays disillusioned writer Robert Harmon, and Gena Rowlands, his sister Sarah in this film about the blows and buttresses of family. Based on a play by Cassavetes’s close friend Ted Allan, the film works the brother-sister relationship as one Janus-faced character: Robert, who runs away from any children he may have fathered in order to continue being the child himself, and Sarah, perpetually maternal and insistently happy, who believes that everyone needs something—anything—to love. For the New Yorker’s Richard Brody, “The movie is a mighty, intimate, kaleidoscopically subjective, bravely self-searching summation of a career, an era, and a life.”

FILM DETAILS 
Screenwriter
  • Ted Allan
  • John Cassavetes
Based On
  • A play by Ted Allan

Cinematographer
  • Al Ruban
Print Info
  • Color
  • 35mm
  • 141 mins
Source
  • BAMPFA
Permission
  • Park Circus
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Love streams (program note), Cinematheque Ontario/a division of Toronto International Film Festival Group, Andréa Picard, 2006

Love streams (program note), Village Voice, Dennis Lim, 2005

Love streams (program note), Harvard Film Archive, 2000

The films of John Cassavetes (program note), Walker Art Center, 1989

The films of John Cassavetes (press release), Walker Art Center, 1989

The films of John Cassavetes (program), Walker Art Center, 1989

Love streams (press release), Surf Theatres, 1984

Emotions run deep in Cassavetes' 'Streams' (review), Sheila Benson, 1984

Love streams (program note), Film Journal International, 1984

Crazy love (review), Boston Phoenix, Owen Gleiberman, 1984

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