#1029: CASSAVETES, John: Husbands (1970)
CASSAVETES, John (United States)
Husbands [1970]
Spine #1029
Blu-ray
The Booklet
Twelve-page wraparound featuring an essay by filmmaker Andrew Bujalski.
Commentary
From 2009 featuring critic Marshall Fine.
Interviews
With producer Al Ruban and actor Runacre.
Video essay
Featuring audio recordings of actor-director Cassavetes discussing his approach to working with actors.
The Story of “Husbands” — A Tribute to John Cassavetes (2009)
A half-hour program featuring Ruban, actor Gazzara, and DP Victor J. Kemper.
Episode
Of The Dick Cavett Show from 1970 featuring Cassavetes, Gazzara and Falk.
Trailer
Extras Rating (0-40):
Husbands [1970]
Spine #1029
Blu-ray
The trailblazing independent auteur John Cassavetes pushes his raw, uncompromising emotional realism to its limit in this unflinching portrait of masculinity in crisis. Cassavetes joins Ben Gazzara and Peter Falk — both of whom would become key collaborators of the director's — playing a trio of middle-aged Long Island family men who, following the sudden death of their close mutual friend, channel their grief into an epic, multiday bender that takes them from Manhattan to London in a desperate, debauched quest to feel alive. By turns painfully funny and woundingly perceptive, this "comedy about life, death, and freedom" (as its tagline stated) stands as perhaps the most fearless, harrowlingly honest deconstruction of American manhood ever committed to film.
142 minutes
Color
Monaural
Color
Monaural
1:85:1 aspect ratio
Criterion Release 2020
Director/Writer
John Cassavetes was 41 when he wrote and directed Husbands.
Other Cassavetes films in the Collection:
#251: Shadows (1959)
#252: Faces (1968)
#253: A Woman Under The Influence (1974)
#254: The Killing Of A Chinese Bookie (1976)
#255: Opening Night (1977)
#721: Love Streams (1984)
The Film
Other Cassavetes films in the Collection:
#251: Shadows (1959)
#252: Faces (1968)
#253: A Woman Under The Influence (1974)
#254: The Killing Of A Chinese Bookie (1976)
#255: Opening Night (1977)
#721: Love Streams (1984)
The Film
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Film Rating (0-60):
60
The ExtrasThe Booklet
Twelve-page wraparound featuring an essay by filmmaker Andrew Bujalski.
Commentary
From 2009 featuring critic Marshall Fine.
Interviews
With producer Al Ruban and actor Runacre.
Video essay
Featuring audio recordings of actor-director Cassavetes discussing his approach to working with actors.
The Story of “Husbands” — A Tribute to John Cassavetes (2009)
A half-hour program featuring Ruban, actor Gazzara, and DP Victor J. Kemper.
Episode
Of The Dick Cavett Show from 1970 featuring Cassavetes, Gazzara and Falk.
Trailer
Extras Rating (0-40):
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