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 very long recording sessions into a sensible episode. However, on this sacred Valentine's Day weekend, I pushed myself (and my computing hands) to the limit so that I could get this episode out to you ASAP. Seriously, this is my fastest episode turnaround ever, and I did it because I love you, Listenership.

Highlights of this episode include: hauntings; the mustache of Meade Roberts (no relation to John, unfortunately); the mustache of John Tuell; how much Allison misses Val Avery; Kentucky Fried Chicken; humiliation; more family systems; Gene Clark; depressed-happy-sad-happy-the-other-way-happy; opposites and contradictions and paradox; Blondie; and so much more.

This podcast is recorded at Longmont Public Media in Longmont, Colorado. LPM rules! We couldn't do Love Streams without this amazing community resource.

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Links to Blondie x Cassavetes content:

An amazing photo

snippet from Blondie doc

interesting forum

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 have reached out to ask questions, recommend new ideas, compliment the show, or just say hi. In this very special bonus episode, John and I will respond to just a few of the emails that we haven't had time to answer. Truly, thank you for reaching out. It means a lot to us.

Happy Valentine's Day. We think you're fanastic. Thanks so much for listening.

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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 everyone has heard of. If you came to this podcast to hear about just one film, there's a good chance it's this one. So yean, no pressure on this episode, Allison and John!

I won't lie to you, friends. This was one tough epidsode for us to make! How do you even begin to wrap your head around a movie that's this complicated and prickly? But, we made it at least! Join the conversation as we talk (at times, in circles) about one of cinema's greatest and most ineffably mysterious films.

Highlights of this episode include:the TV show that financed this film; the many scripts that Cassavetes wrote before ultimately writing this particular script (and yes, this film had a script!); Swanny Swanson; Allison's bleak take on marriage and motherhood; Pauline Kael's hot takes; things you can hash out over a lunch; Stella Dallas; Cassavetes' bonafide strategy for exploiting film students; Allison's very succint review of "The Patriot" starring Mel Gibson; Robert Culp's glasses; things spoken and unspoken; deep silliness as the flipside of deep sadness; the best speech that was ever given at an Oscar afterparty; labels; maternal sacrifice; insights from Genre John; who started it; weather, conversation, hello, how are you; important advice about which movie you should not show to a date; vampires of TV and film; Carol Gilligan; Allison's desire to hide under tables; reasons why you shouldn't let anyone into your house; reasons why you should never go over to anyone else's house; reasons why you should never answer the phone, and so much more.

This podcast is recorded at Longmont Public Media in Longmont, Colorado. LPM rules! We couldn't do Love Streams without this amazing community resource.