Editing Shadows (1959 film) (section)

==Reception==
In his December 1959 manifesto "A Call for a New Generation of Film Makers", Mekas said that ''Shadows'' was the start of a new movement that would inspire independent filmmakers, energize the flagging avant-garde film scene, and triumph over the commercial Hollywood film industry.<ref name=Decherney2006>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KVL14qF6m_0C&pg=PA177 |page=177 |title=Hollywood and the Culture Elite: How the Movies Became American |last=Decherney |first=Peter |publisher=Columbia University Press |year=2006 |isbn=9780231133777}}</ref> Even so, he was upset that the film had been reworked. In January 1960, he wrote in his movie-review column in ''[[The Village Voice]]'' that the 1959 version was commercialized, "just another Hollywood film", and that everything he had praised in the first version had been "completely destroyed".<ref name=Macadams2012/> Later in his life, he said that the first version should have never been remade, but that the second version was a better indication of the direction in which Cassavetes was going as a filmmaker.

''Shadows'' was given the Critics Award at the [[Venice Film Festival]]. Cassavetes obtained distribution through [[British Lion Films|British Lion]] in 1961.<ref name=Macadams2012/>