
Shadows
Directed by: John Cassavetes
1959 | USA | 87 minutes
Matinee | Saturday, February 24, 2018, 3pm |
Screening | Saturday, February 24, 2018, 7pm |
Free Admission!
John Cassavetes’s directorial debut revolves around a romance in New York City between Lelia (Lelia Goldoni), a light- skinned black woman, and Tony (Anthony Ray), a white man. The relationship is put in jeopardy when Tony meets Lelia’s darker-skinned jazz singer brother, Hugh (Hugh Hurd), and discovers that her racial heritage is not what he thought it was. Shot on location in Manhattan with a mostly nonprofessional cast and crew, Shadows is a penetrating work that is widely considered the forerunner of the American independent film movement.