Shadows [Criterion Collection]

"The concept of independent filmmaking didn't really exist in 1957 (and underground movies were unknown to anyone beyond a tiny handful of bohemians in New York and the West Coast) when John Cassavetes gathered together some students from the acting workshop he taught with Burt Lane, commandeered a 16mm camera and began shooting a movie. Shadows was something very new and different when it opened in a handful of art houses in 1959, and while Cassavetes would make better and more accomplishe...