Factional disputes over commercial cuts split the New American Cinema

Evidence

The stars were Argus Spear Julliard, Frances Stillman, Mekas’s brother Adolfas, and Benito Carruthers, the intense twenty-four-year-old actor who stole Shadows with his precocious Method performance and who, just as importantly, agreed with Mekas that the film had been ruined by Cassavetes’s second “commercial” cut. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 168

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Distribution conflicts directly catalyzed the creation of the Film-Makers’ Cooperative — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now: The 1960s New York…, 218
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Distribution conflicts directly catalyzed the creation of the Film-Makers’ Cooperative — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now: The 1960s New York…, 218