Ray Carney on his obsessive search for the 1957 version of Cassavetes' Shadows.
I teach literature as well as film, and one day in a Henry James seminar I was leading a discussion of The Aspern Papers and The Figure in the Carpet, two comical stories about endless, pointless, maniacal scholarly searches that never get anywhere, when I began laughing so hard that I had to stop the discussion and explain to my students that I had suddenly shockingly recognized my own particular scholarly madness in James's characters. Was I really just crazy?
It's a fascinating story — one of those "too impossible to be true" stories.
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