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submitted 6 months ago by Flummoxed@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

Alcoholic? Messiah?

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[-] niktemadur@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I've seen Shadows, Faces and The Killing Of A Chinese Bookie.
The man nearly single-handedly invented independent highbrow cinema in the United States, a gritty and bare urban realism that is as artistically important as the French Nouvelle Vague.

To put it in an oversimplified way, without Cassavettes there is no Scorsese as we know him.

[-] Flummoxed@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Yes, thank you!

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