#shadows 1958

[haveyouseenthismovie-poll]

Have you seen Shadows (1956)?

Yes

No

Haven’t even heard of this movie

Voting ended onOct 4, 2025

Edit: This film was actually released in 1958-1959, not 1956. Correcting here since you can’t change polls after they’ve been posted.

[beautyarchive]

Lelia Goldoni in Shadows (1958).

'The first independent American movie' is what they say about Shadows. It really does work and it so clearly influenced Martin Scorsese. I don't like the people in it though. The characters either behave like adolescents of the most primitive kind or they dress up like ladies and gentlemen and interact in a pretentiously cultivated way. The adolescent behaviour involves scene after scene of people being confrontational without cause - one person publicly humiliates another when they don’t deserve it, they play games where they bullshit outsiders, they get into fights… Becoming more civilized is presented as the better way, and I suppose it is, but what about people who are good-natured and don't need civilizing? Only the manager of the singer seems like that.

Lelia Goldoni is a great Sicilian beauty though.

[featurespast]

Shadows (1958)