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Rated the #4 best film of 1984, and #228 … From that point on, Cassavetes was synonymous with uncompromising, anti-studio American fare, working with a rotating cast of brilliant actors like Ben Gazzara, Seymour Cassel, and, of course, his wife, Gena Rowlands, to touch raw nerves with such films as A Woman Under the Influence (1974), The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976), and Opening Night (1976). Shadows (1959), the first film he directed, self-financed for a mere $40,000, didn’t find much of an audience upon its small initial release, but it garnered Cassavetes some notice from critics (including a Venice Film Festival Critics Prize)—as well as studios, resulting in a couple of impersonal projects in the 1960s (Too Late Blues, A Child Is Waiting). Give your live events professional polish without the hassle of an encoder. Get info about new releases, essays and interviews on the Current, Top 10 lists, and sales. John Cassavetes’ emotionally naked human dramas are benchmarks of American independent cinema. 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. Having started out in New York as an actor, Cassavetes brought to his directorial efforts the same kinetic, heightened realism that marked his film and theater roles—a wily danger, the sense that at any moment things could explode from the inside. Previews on Twitter (twitter.com/chighostsigns) as well as photography on Instagram: instagram.com/raypride. Watch TV Online & On Demand, Record a Series, and Binge on your favorite TV Shows & Original Series. “It’s one of those things, you can’t really appreciate something until it’s taken away from you. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Runtime: 2m 21s. Cassavetes died in 1989. 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. Though hardly a crowd-pleaser, that film—made, like Shadows, wholly independently—was an art-house success, resulting in three Oscar nominations. Streaming is great, it’s convenient. Hör unsere Channels in externen Playern und Lautsprechern oder stream sie mit deinem internetfähigen Fernseher, Spielekonsolen, Discord- und TeamSpeak Musikbots. Four early pictures by Douglas Sirk are scheduled, “A Scandal in Paris,” “Lured,” “Shockproof” and “Slightly French,” restlessly stylish warm-ups for his later American melodrama masterpieces. Amazon Prime boasts its usual teeming cornucopia of obscurities, as described on Twitter by writer-producer Gerry Conway: “Amazon Prime Video is like your old neighborhood off-brand video rental store (’80s kids, you know what I’m talking about) with a handful of popular titles upfront and the really weird Philippine-jungle low budget shit in the back.” The New Yorker’s Richard Brody offers largely desultory comment on eighty-three movies presently on Amazon here. Sign up for Newcity's weekly newsletters: Sign Up for Weekly Updates on Chicago Culture, Copyright Newcity Communications, Inc. © 2020, Love Streams: What To Watch, May 21, 2020, Magician at Work: A Review Of "They'll Love Me When I'm Dead", A celebration of Orson Welles' joie de vivre in the face of stupid setback atop stupid setback, Hazy Days Of Love: A Review of "The Great Pretender", Preview: Sam Green Talks About The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller with Yo La Tengo. 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