Cassavetes Directs Cassavetes Directs

Cassavetes Directs

John Cassavetes and the Making of Love Streams

    • $24.99
    • $24.99

Publisher Description

In 1983 visionary director John Cassavetes asked journalist Michael Ventura to write a unique film study—an on-set diary of the making of his film Love Streams. Cassavetes laid out his expectations. He wanted "a daring book, a tough book". In Ventura’s words, "All I had to do for ‘daring’ and ‘tough’ was transcribe this man’s audacity day by day." Full of insight into not only the filmmaker but his actors and his Hollywood peers, the resulting book describes the creation of Love Streams shot by shot, crisis by crisis. During production, the director learned that he was seriously ill, that this film might, as it tragically turned out, be his last. Starring alongside actress and wife Gena Rowlands, Cassavetes shot in sequence, reconceiving and revising his film almost nightly, in order that Love Streams could stand as his final statement. Both an intimate portrait of the man and an insight into his unique filmmaking philosophy, this important text for all movie lovers and film historians documents a heroic moment in the life of a great artist.

GENRE
Arts & Entertainment
RELEASED
2007
July 1
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
320
Pages
PUBLISHER
Oldcastle Books
SELLER
Chicago Review Press, Inc. DBA Independent Publishers Group
SIZE
1.6
MB

More Books Like This

The Ultimate Scene and Monologue Sourcebook, Updated and Expanded Edition The Ultimate Scene and Monologue Sourcebook, Updated and Expanded Edition
2007
Trouble in Mind Trouble in Mind
2022
The Actor's Art and Craft The Actor's Art and Craft
2008
The Actor's Guide to Creating a Character The Actor's Guide to Creating a Character
2014
Sanford Meisner on Acting Sanford Meisner on Acting
1987
Armstrong's War Armstrong's War
2014

More Books by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3 AM Letters at 3 AM
2024
Applied Empathy Applied Empathy
2018
We've Had a Hundred Years of Psychotherapy We've Had a Hundred Years of Psychotherapy
2009
Cent'anni di psicoanalisi Cent'anni di psicoanalisi
2022