A beautiful and very kind (to the film and to my essay) review of Love Streams in the Oklahoma Gazette. Patrick Crain is great on the film and what makes it so unique. I love this:
As Robert Harmon, Cassavetes gives himself the role of a lifetime — the most representative of the Cassavetes Male. Complicated and layered, we understand Harmon in the same way we would as a fascinated onlooker. We’re not sure what drives him to be so selfish and shallow, but we’re intrigued anyway. He does insanely horrible things that we still seem to forgive due to the skill of Cassavetes as a charmer who knew how to make you realize that the majority of your friends are just as flawed as the characters he wrote and played.
Yes!
And Jake Cole reviews the DVD/Blu-Ray release of Love Streams for Slant Magazine. You can certainly feel the excitement everywhere about this film being released on DVD at all, let alone by Criterion.
You can order the film through Criterion, or it’s also available on Amazon
