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Love Streams (Criterion Collection)

Love Streams (Criterion Collection)

Cannon Films (1984)
Blu-ray
PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned)
715515124317
Drama
USA | English | Color | 02:21

Two closely-bound, emotionally wounded siblings reunite after years apart.


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Gena Rowlands Sarah Lawson
John Cassavetes Robert Harmon
Diahnne Abbott Susan
Seymour Cassel Jack Lawson
Margaret Abbott Margarita
Jakob Shaw Albie Swanson
Michele Conaway Agnes Swanson
Eddy Donno Stepfather Swanson
Joan Foley Judge Dunbar
Al Ruban Milton Kravitz
Tom Badal Sam the lawyer
Risa Blewitt Debbie Lawson
David Rowlands The psychiatrist
Robert Fieldsteel Dr. Williams
Raphael De Niro Billy
Tony Brubaker Frank
John Roselius Ken
Jessica St. John Dottie
Frank Beetson Cashier (Bowling Alley)
John Finnegan Taxi Driver (Animals)
Gregg Berger Taxi Driver
John Qualls Taxi Driver
Christopher O'Neal Phyllis George Delano
Susan Wolf Jade Meadows Swift
Doe Avedon Mrs. Kiner

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Edition details

Edition The Criterion Collection, Dual Format
Packaging Keep Case
Nr Discs 1
Screen Ratios Widescreen (1.85:1)
Audio Tracks LPCM Mono [English]
Subtitles English (SDH)
Distributor Criterion
Layers Single side, Dual layer
Edition Release Date Aug 12, 2014
Regions Region A

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Quantity 1
Index 2476
Added Date Dec 26, 2021 16:21:00
Modified Date Jun 12, 2022 00:35:18

Notes

Christmas 2021 gift from Beth

The electric filmmaking genius John Cassavetes and his brilliant wife and collaborator Gena Rowlands give luminous, fragile performances as two closely bound, emotionally wounded souls who reunite after years apart. Exhilarating and risky, mixing sober realism with surreal flourishes, Love Streams is a remarkable film that comes at the viewer in a torrent of beautiful, erratic feeling. This inquiry into the nature of love in all its forms was Cassavetes’s last truly personal work.


SPECIAL FEATURES
New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
New audio commentary featuring writer Michael Ventura
New video essay on actor Gena Rowlands by film critic Sheila O’Malley
New interviews with executive producer and director of photography Al Ruban and actor Diahnne Abbott
Interview from 2008 with actor Seymour Cassel
“I’m Almost Not Crazy . . .”-John Cassavetes: The Man and His Work (1984), a sixty-minute documentary by Ventura on the making of Love Streams
Trailer
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Dennis Lim and a 1984 New York Times piece on the film by Cassavetes

New cover by Eric Skillman

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