Love Streams (Cassavetes, 1984) DVDRip VOSE
Publicado: Vie 23 Sep, 2005 13:28
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087644/
Ficha técnica
Director: John Cassavettes
Guión: John Cassavettes, Ted Allan basado en la obra de Ted Allan
Fotografía: Al Ruban
Música: B. Harwood
Montaje: George C. Villaseñor
Dirección artística : Phedon Papamichael
Producción: Menahem Golan, Yoram Globus
Productora: Cannon Productions
Intérpretes: Gena Rowlands (Sarh Lawson), John Cassavettes (Robert Harmon), Diahnne Abbott (Susan), Seymour Cassel (Jack Lawson), Jakob Shaw (Albie Swanson), Margaret Abbott (Margarita), Risa Blewitt (Debbie Swanson), John Roselius (Ken), Michele Conway (Agnes Swanson), Eddy Donno (Eddy Swanson), Joan Foley (Juez Dunbar).
[quote]There's no other American director who can do what John Cassavetes does on the screen. There may not be many who would want to. Mr. Cassavetes's work, in ''Love Streams,'' as in his earlier films, is as overflowing with emotional constructs as it is barren of other forms of thought. It's excessive and idiosyncratic all the way. Yet Mr. Cassavetes, as both actor and director, is never without his own peculiar magnetism and authority. Once again, he is able to galvanize a long, rambling, quirky psychodrama through sheer force of personality.
''Love Streams,'' which opens today at the Coronet, has the style, cast and concerns with which Mr. Cassavetes' devotees are familiar. The director stars as Robert, a famous author who is ''writing a book on night life,'' which means that he's a kind of den father to a household full of clean-cut young prostitutes and that his nights on the town often leave him drunk, bruised and bloody. Gena Rowlands plays Sarah, a self-proclaimed ''very happy person'' who likes to visit sick relatives - anyone's relatives - and is fragile enough to have lately been institutionalized. Their stories remain parallel for the film's first hour, but they run together when Sarah comes to stay at Robert's house. It is gradually revealed that she is his sister.
The second half of the film, in which this new closeness between Robert and Sarah accentuates their neuroses, has a different tone from the first half, which is all exposition. It takes a while for Mr. Cassavetes (who wrote the screenplay with Ted Allan, based on Mr. Allan's play) to introduce a number of subsidiary characters. Among them are the sultry nightclub singer (Diahnne Abbott) whom Robert pursues desperately and just as desperately abandons; the 8-year-old son (Jakob Shaw) who pays Robert an unexpected visit (''I haven't seen him since he was born; we were just going over old times,'' the father casually explains), and Sarah's husband (Seymour Cassel), whom she calls to tell brightly: ''Jack? I'm almost not crazy now.'' The real drama barely involves these people at all. It centers on Robert and Sarah, who are meant to be seen as two sides of the same coin.
Because Mr. Cassavetes is so much better equipped to consider his characters individually than in tandem, because his speciality is the long close-up monologue rather than the dialogue or the reaction, ''Love Streams'' is more successful in sketching Robert and Sarah separately than in bringing them together. Once they meet, the film gives itself over to outlandish devices, like an operetta fantasy in which Sarah sings to her husband and daughter about the breakup of their family, and to outlandish humor. There is the moment, for instance, when Sarah decides Robert needs something to love and brings him home two miniature horses, a goat, a parrot, a duck, some chickens and a very large dog. The spectacle of Sarah arriving at Robert's place with most of these creatures in a single taxi is funny enough. But the joke goes on too long.
It is repeated several times in ''Love Streams'' that ''love is a stream - it's continuous, it doesn't stop,'' and that ''a beautiful woman has to offer a man her secrets.'' So ''Love Streams'' is of less interest for its verbal insights than for the offbeat energy of its best scenes. In one of these, Sarah goes alone to a bowling alley in an evening dress, bowling alone to show how cheerful she can be. Miss Rowlands is vibrant enough to make this scene appealing, rather than bizarre.
Mr. Cassavetes has a fine long sequence in which he introduces his newly discovered son to a life of casual flamboyance, whisking him off to Las Vegas and teaching him how to drink beer. The outstanding moment in Miss Rowland's performance - and in the film itself - comes when she takes a spur-of-the-moment trip to France, arriving there with fur coats, several steamer trunks, lots of shopping bags and at least a dozen other pieces of luggage. She needs a porter, but the only one available speaks no English. She tries to tell him about the bags in fractured French, but he blinks uncomprehendingly. ''You can understand me if you want to,'' Sarah tells him then, with a definiteness that very nearly makes it true - and with the authority that much of Mr. Cassavetes's film possesses. [/quote]
[quote]AVI File Details
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Filesize.....: 700 MB (or 717,230 KB or 734,443,520 bytes)
Runtime......: 01:10:07 (105,186 fr)
Video Codec..: XviD
Video Bitrate: 1263 kb/s
Audio Codec..: 0x0055(MP3) ID'd as MPEG-1 Layer 3
Audio Bitrate: 125 kb/s (62/ch, stereo) VBR LAME3.96r¯
Frame Size...: 672x416 (1.62:1) [=21:13]
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Love.Streams.(1984).John.Cassavetes.Gena.Rowlands.(DVDRip-Xvid).cd1.avi 
Love.Streams.(1984).John.Cassavetes.Gena.Rowlands.(DVDRip-Xvid).cd2.avi
Subtítulos en ejpañol gracias a Chuschao
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087644/
Ficha técnica
Director: John Cassavettes
Guión: John Cassavettes, Ted Allan basado en la obra de Ted Allan
Fotografía: Al Ruban
Música: B. Harwood
Montaje: George C. Villaseñor
Dirección artística : Phedon Papamichael
Producción: Menahem Golan, Yoram Globus
Productora: Cannon Productions
Intérpretes: Gena Rowlands (Sarh Lawson), John Cassavettes (Robert Harmon), Diahnne Abbott (Susan), Seymour Cassel (Jack Lawson), Jakob Shaw (Albie Swanson), Margaret Abbott (Margarita), Risa Blewitt (Debbie Swanson), John Roselius (Ken), Michele Conway (Agnes Swanson), Eddy Donno (Eddy Swanson), Joan Foley (Juez Dunbar).
[quote]There's no other American director who can do what John Cassavetes does on the screen. There may not be many who would want to. Mr. Cassavetes's work, in ''Love Streams,'' as in his earlier films, is as overflowing with emotional constructs as it is barren of other forms of thought. It's excessive and idiosyncratic all the way. Yet Mr. Cassavetes, as both actor and director, is never without his own peculiar magnetism and authority. Once again, he is able to galvanize a long, rambling, quirky psychodrama through sheer force of personality.
''Love Streams,'' which opens today at the Coronet, has the style, cast and concerns with which Mr. Cassavetes' devotees are familiar. The director stars as Robert, a famous author who is ''writing a book on night life,'' which means that he's a kind of den father to a household full of clean-cut young prostitutes and that his nights on the town often leave him drunk, bruised and bloody. Gena Rowlands plays Sarah, a self-proclaimed ''very happy person'' who likes to visit sick relatives - anyone's relatives - and is fragile enough to have lately been institutionalized. Their stories remain parallel for the film's first hour, but they run together when Sarah comes to stay at Robert's house. It is gradually revealed that she is his sister.
The second half of the film, in which this new closeness between Robert and Sarah accentuates their neuroses, has a different tone from the first half, which is all exposition. It takes a while for Mr. Cassavetes (who wrote the screenplay with Ted Allan, based on Mr. Allan's play) to introduce a number of subsidiary characters. Among them are the sultry nightclub singer (Diahnne Abbott) whom Robert pursues desperately and just as desperately abandons; the 8-year-old son (Jakob Shaw) who pays Robert an unexpected visit (''I haven't seen him since he was born; we were just going over old times,'' the father casually explains), and Sarah's husband (Seymour Cassel), whom she calls to tell brightly: ''Jack? I'm almost not crazy now.'' The real drama barely involves these people at all. It centers on Robert and Sarah, who are meant to be seen as two sides of the same coin.
Because Mr. Cassavetes is so much better equipped to consider his characters individually than in tandem, because his speciality is the long close-up monologue rather than the dialogue or the reaction, ''Love Streams'' is more successful in sketching Robert and Sarah separately than in bringing them together. Once they meet, the film gives itself over to outlandish devices, like an operetta fantasy in which Sarah sings to her husband and daughter about the breakup of their family, and to outlandish humor. There is the moment, for instance, when Sarah decides Robert needs something to love and brings him home two miniature horses, a goat, a parrot, a duck, some chickens and a very large dog. The spectacle of Sarah arriving at Robert's place with most of these creatures in a single taxi is funny enough. But the joke goes on too long.
It is repeated several times in ''Love Streams'' that ''love is a stream - it's continuous, it doesn't stop,'' and that ''a beautiful woman has to offer a man her secrets.'' So ''Love Streams'' is of less interest for its verbal insights than for the offbeat energy of its best scenes. In one of these, Sarah goes alone to a bowling alley in an evening dress, bowling alone to show how cheerful she can be. Miss Rowlands is vibrant enough to make this scene appealing, rather than bizarre.
Mr. Cassavetes has a fine long sequence in which he introduces his newly discovered son to a life of casual flamboyance, whisking him off to Las Vegas and teaching him how to drink beer. The outstanding moment in Miss Rowland's performance - and in the film itself - comes when she takes a spur-of-the-moment trip to France, arriving there with fur coats, several steamer trunks, lots of shopping bags and at least a dozen other pieces of luggage. She needs a porter, but the only one available speaks no English. She tries to tell him about the bags in fractured French, but he blinks uncomprehendingly. ''You can understand me if you want to,'' Sarah tells him then, with a definiteness that very nearly makes it true - and with the authority that much of Mr. Cassavetes's film possesses. [/quote]
[quote]AVI File Details
========================================
Name.........: Love.Streams.cd1.avi
Filesize.....: 700 MB (or 717,230 KB or 734,443,520 bytes)
Runtime......: 01:10:07 (105,186 fr)
Video Codec..: XviD
Video Bitrate: 1263 kb/s
Audio Codec..: 0x0055(MP3) ID'd as MPEG-1 Layer 3
Audio Bitrate: 125 kb/s (62/ch, stereo) VBR LAME3.96r¯
Frame Size...: 672x416 (1.62:1) [=21:13]
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