Love Streams: The John Cassavetes Podcast

Welcome to "Love Streams: The John Cassavetes Podcast." Over the course of this podcast, we'll be discussing the films directed by John Cassavetes (and we're not necessarily going in chronological order). In this episode, Allison and John, a filmmaker and a film studies scholar who happen to be married to each other (sorry, guys) will dig into the 1976 film, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie. Get psyched for a genre film that tu...

In Episode 2 of "Love Streams," Allison and John, a filmmaker and a film studies scholar who are annoyingly married to each other, dive into an incredibly long conversation about Cassavetes' 1970 film, Husbands. Join them as they discuss production history, academic interpretations, how the script was written, vomit, sports, masculinity, (in)appropriate social behavior, grief, strategies for duping distributors, noise, the pos...

Welcome back to "Love Streams: The John Cassavetes Podcast," where Allison and John (a filmmaker and a film studies scholar who just happened to be married to each other) discuss the films directed by American film director, John Cassavetes. In this episode, John and Allison gear up to watch Cassavetes' 1968 masterpiece, Faces. That means it's time to talk about the context of this film, some bits of production history, as well as ...

Welcome back to "Love Streams: The John Cassavetes Podcast," a show in which a filmmaker and a film studies scholar (who just happened to be married to each other) unpack the movies directed by American director, John Cassavetes.

In this episode, Allison and John dive deep into Cassavetes' 1968 masterpiece, Faces, and boy-oh-boy, is there a lot to discuss! Highlights include: the Red Meat song; Allison's explanation of wh...

Welcome back to "Love Streams: The John Cassavetes Podcast," a show in which a filmmaker and a film studies scholar (who just happened to be married to each other) unpack the movies directed by American director, John Cassavetes.

In this episode, Allison and John unpack Cassavetes' directorial debut, "Shadows" (1959), and dear sweet God, do they talk about a whole heck of a lot! Episode highlights include: the secret longings of th...

Welcome back at long last to Love Streams: The John Cassavetes Podcast! This is the part where your hosts, Allison and John, slink back into your lives with their tails between their legs. We're sorry, Listenership! After a sudden hiatus, we're back to unpacking the movies of American filmmaker, John Cassavetes, one episode at a time.

Since this episode is way too late, perhaps it's appropriate that we're talking about Too Late Blu...

Welcome back to Love Streams: The John Cassavetes Podcast! In this podcast, a filmmaker and a film studies scholar (who happen to be married to each other) unpack, marvel at, and puzzle over the movies directed by American filmmaker, John Cassavetes, one movie at a time.

In this episode, Allison and John discuss "Minnie and Moskowitz," the Cassavetes version of a Hollywood screwball comedy. Episode highlights include: singing, howl...

Welcome back to Love Streams: The John Cassavetes Podcast! In this podcast, a filmmaker and a film studies scholar (who happen to be married to each other) unpack, marvel at, and puzzle over the movies directed by American filmmaker, John Cassavetes, one movie at a time.

This is it, folks. This is the episode you've been waiting for. It's time to dig into "A Woman Under the Influence," the one Cassavetes film that just about everyo...

Remember that one time when you listened to "Love Streams: The John Cassavetes Podcast" and you felt inspired to reach out to the hosts to say hi, but then they never even responded to your email? The nerve of those hosts! What jerks! How annoying! How terrible!

But seriously, Listenership, we are so grateful to all of you who have been listening to "Love Streams" over the years, and we're especially grateful to those of you who ha...

Welcome back to Love Streams: The John Cassavetes Podcast! In this podcast, a filmmaker and a film studies scholar (who happen to be married to each other) unpack, marvel at, and puzzle over the movies directed by American filmmaker, John Cassavetes, one movie at a time.

Dear Listenership: Please know that I (Allison) often take about a million years to edit these episodes because it really does take quite a bit of time to cut our ...

Welcome back to Love Streams: The John Cassavetes Podcast! In this podcast, a filmmaker and a film studies scholar (who happen to be married to each other) unpack, marvel at, and puzzle over the movies directed by American filmmaker, John Cassavetes, one movie at a time.

Here we go, folks: It's time for Gloria!

Episode highlights include: some really fantastic ideas for action figures; the subtle Wisconsin accent (and the incredibl...