1. Plot

2. Cast

3. Production

4. Reception

5. References

Street Music is a 1981 film written and directed by San Francisco–based filmmaker Jenny Bowen. It represents one of Elizabeth Daily's earliest starring roles.

Plot

The film centers around a group of elderly residents of an old San Francisco hotel and are threatened with eviction when a developer wants to demolish the structure. Initially, they feel resigned to their fate, but a young desk clerk (Dailey) gets involved and helps spearhead a resistance.^[1]

Cast

• Elizabeth Daily as Sadie
• Larry Breeding a Eddie
• Ned Glass as Sam
• Marjorie Eaton as Mildred

Production

Bowen, who was 37 at the time she filmed Street Music,^[2] conceived the idea during a lull on the production of Apocalypse Now, where she was working as a recording engineer.^[1] She was walking from Francis Ford Coppola's offices and stumbled upon a group of elderly people who were being evicted from their longtime home.^[3]

Bowen also recounted working as a bookkeeper at a run-down San Francisco hotel while beginning her acting career and seeing people being evicted. She based the film's central character on a roommate she had who was a street singer and a dancer.^[5]

Neither she nor her husband—cinematographer Richard Bowen—had any experience writing or directing at the time. The pair raised an initial $450,000 and later realized they'd need another $150,000, which brought the total to $600,000.^[3] The money came in chunks, as some of the bigger names had suggested things like turning the script into an "old peoples' 'Animal House.'"^[5]

The film was shot on location in San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood over the course of 37 days, beginning in October 1980.^[4] They shot inside the then-abandoned Hotel Hamlin on Eddy Street^[5] that they refurbished, as well as on the surrounding streets.^[6] During the duration of the filming, the Bowens had to deal with an actors' strike, ruptured water pipes, a car crash, and an actor having a heart attack.^[3]

Sadly, co-star Larry Breeding died in a car crash three months before the film's premiere.^[7]

Reception

The film played at a number of film festivals, and tied for first place in the independent feature section at the U.S. Film Festival.^[1] Reviews were mostly positive; The San Francisco Examiner's Nancy Scott called it "an intelligent balance between the bitter and the sweet," and says that it was filmed "with a clear, loving and unpretentious eye."^[3] Robert Redford liked the film so much he connected the Bowens with funding through the Sundance Institute for their second film.^[4]

References

• Witch's Sabbath
• Witch's sabbath
• Witch's tit
• Witchstock
• Witchstock (Charmed episode)
• Witchstock (Charmed Episode)
• Witch's Web
• Witch's wheel
• W.I.T.C.H(the game)
• W.I.T.C.H (the game)
• W.I.T.C.H. third special issue
• Witch Trial
• Witch-trial
• Witch Trial (Charmed Episode)
• Witch Trial (Charmed episode)
• Witch trials
• W.I.T.C.H. (TV series)
• W.I.T.C.H. (video game)
• WitchVox
• Witchvox
• Wit'ch War
• Witch Wars
• Witch Wars (Charmed Episode)
• Witch Wars (Charmed episode)
• Witch Way Now?