Cinema: It's a Picture About Life

Too Late Blues (Paramount). "I believe in movies, not money," said John Cassavetes when he went West to make this picture. Shadows, the film he improvised in Manhattan with a cast of unknown actors and a budget of $40,000 (TIME, March 24), had caused the critics of two continents to bow down before him. and as he surveyed the gilded hills of Hollywood Director Cassavetes apparently felt like a voice crying in the wilderness of materialism. "In Hollywood," he announced loudly, "they want to make pictures that make money. They don't understand and they don't care what I am saying in...

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