"Cassavetes' movie not only anticipated Mean Streets, Stranger Than Paradise, She's Gotta Have It, and Slacker, among countless others—it helped will them into being. As Martin Scorsese noted, after Shadows, there were 'no more excuses' for aspiring filmmakers: 'If he could do it, so could we!' And yet 50 years after its release, Shadows is a forgotten movie, revered by cultists, critics, and historians but neglected by a culture on which it has had a profound influence."
Elbert Ventura asserts in Slate that John Cassavetes invented modern independent film fifty years ago today.
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