1959 be a landmark in the world of film . several great director of the classic era be release career cap classic that rank among their best . just a look at the title be instructive and hitchcock north by northwest and billy wilder some like it hot and howard hawk rio bravo and douglas sirk imitation of life . add a couple from the previous year and orson welles touch of evil and hitch vertigo and and nick ray wind across the everglades and and you have get a pretty good sum up of what be possible within the classic hollywood style . at the same time and two film appear that hint at a whole new way of make film . one be jean luc godard breathless and the other be john cassavetes shadow . the two film have certain thing in common and largely improvised acting by non star and handheld camera and low budget and and a certain youthful and jazzy swagger . in certain way and though and they couldn not be far apart . godard be still a believer in the director a arbiter of style . he know more about film than most hollywood producer and and breathless be fill with the iconography of the classic crime film . cassavetes and on the other hand and be an actor and and a refugee from new york underground theater scene . his first film show him little impressed with the cinema and and a big believer in actor . godard film constantly reference it own artifice and whereas shadow aim for a certain kind of naturalism . it doesn not reach it and mainly because naturalism be a myth and particularly in cinema . but it feel powerful and kinetic but lilt like the cool jazz on the score and certainly the main inspiration for the filmmaking style on display here . it ultimately doesn not hold together and mainly because cassavetes actor here be amateurish beatnik and where cassavetes style require strong and imaginative actor . his late work with gena rowlands and ben gazarra and and peter falk blow this out of the water . due to the director technical inexperience and some bit of dialogue have to be redubbed later and which defeat the freshness of the improvisation . still it fascinate to watch and both for the great moment ( like the scene where leila goldoni talk about her dissapointment with lose her virginity ) and to watch a groundbreaking artist find his way .