Shadows 1958 123movies

Watch: Shadows 1958 123movies, Full Movie Online – Benny’s a hipster, moving in and out of Manhattan’s beat scene, aimless, maybe close to trouble. His sister Lelia, who looks less African-American than White, is vulnerable and about to fall in love. Hugh, their older brother, is a struggling singer whose agent, Rupert, may be the only person with faith in his talent. The story moves back and forth, like jazz, among the three of them and what seems at first to be separate lives. Lelia meets Tony, and lets herself hope this is true love. Then he meets Hugh and prejudice gives Tony an excuse to cut and run. Can family and friendship bring solace for her hurt, purpose for Benny, and belief in Hugh? Is life more than shadows?.
Plot: The relationship between Lelia, a light-skinned black woman, and Tony, a white man is put in jeopardy when Tony meets Lelia’s darker-skinned jazz singer brother, Hugh, and discovers that her racial heritage is not what he thought it was.
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Ratings:

	7.2/10 Votes: 11,669
	100% | RottenTomatoes
	86/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 188 Popularity: 10.174 | TMDB

Reviews:

“improvisation” at its best
It ends with the declaration that “the film you have just seen was an improvisation”-at once making you feel like an idiot for thinking an improvisation was an good movie, and astounded at Cassavetes’ genius…once again. Of course, Cassavetes told some guy it wasn’t really an improvisation per se, on his deathbed, so…it’s the story about a light-skinned black woman, Lelia, who passes for white, and her family: another passing-for-white brother named Ben, and a black-black brother named Hughie. When she falls in love with a white jerk named Tony, he is unpleasantly surprised when he finds out she’s black, and from there it goes on about the three main characters’ individual aspirations and shortcomings. Hughie is a jazz singer in the process of becoming a failure, Lelia’s still hopelessly depressed over Tony, and Ben is angsty and violent in general, in desperate need of something to shock him out of his stale patterns of existence. Overall, I suppose it’s really about stasis vs. change in human life. I suspect that Cassavetes had the plot organized enough, and it was just the dialogue that was improvised. The dialogue itself is very uneven – sometimes somebody will say something very memorable, other times it’s memorably awkward. What’s amazing is the extent of the amateur actors’ embodiment of their characters. Cassavetes went through the acting class he was teaching at the time he decided to do Shadows, whispered in the ears of the ten best students, and this was the result…the guys playing Ben and Hughie are very good. At first I didn’t like Lelia, but as the film progressed you see more and more she’s one of those actors who gets better as the tension and drama builds – not necessarily the best with small talk. Shadows is hailed by many as the forerunner of the indie film movement (made in 1959) and it’s definitely recommended.

Not the perfect movie but still a nice little, different one.
To be honest, I really didn’t expected to like this movie, mostly since its entire premise and set-up sounded pretentious but as it often turns out with me; I’m actually quite fond of this ‘different’ and more art-house type of movie.

The movie is an entirely improvised one, so that means that the acting is also being that way. It works refreshing, especially with all of its dialog but it makes it also obvious that not all of the actors in this movie are being very great ones.

Still, the style of improvising for this movie is one that works out and makes this movie throughout a good one to watch. Not always an interesting one but a good one nevertheless. As often is the case with these improvised type of movie, it tends to drag on with certain sequences, though it can be argued that this is also actually being something that adds to the realism and rawness of the overall movie.

But I really wont pretend as if this is the best example of what the genre is capable off. The movie still does plenty wrong. To be frank, some of the directing can get really sloppy in this movie and it often features sudden cuts and obviously later put in in-between shots. Another thing that the movie does a somewhat bad job with are its characters. It really isn’t clear from the beginning on which character or characters are supposed to be the main ones. This won’t became apparent until very late into the movie. You could definitely blame the improvisation style of the movie for this.

But all in all, I still liked watching this different, little and honest movie, by John Cassavetes. It’s well shot with some nice camera-work and it shows the atmosphere and environments of the late ’50’s New York. It’s story also involves some good themes such as racism and interracial relationships, which was something that just didn’t get featured very often in movies around that time.

7/10

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Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 21 min (81 min), 1 hr 27 min (87 min) (UK), 1 hr 27 min (87 min) (USA)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated PG
Genre Drama, Music, Romance
Director John Cassavetes
Writer John Cassavetes
Actors Ben Carruthers, Lelia Goldoni, Hugh Hurd
Country United States
Awards Nominated for 4 BAFTA 2 wins & 5 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono
Aspect Ratio 1.37 : 1
Camera Arriflex Cameras
Laboratory N/A
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 16 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format DCP Digital Cinema Package (restored version), 35 mm (blow-up)