Great commentary, interesting extras really add to this blueray, or dvd. Rent losing ground 2005 on dvd and bluray dvd netflix. Now a period piece, losing ground out on bluray and dvd from milestone seems also to be an anomaly not just because ms. Losing ground 1982 kathleen collins, billie allen, gary. Losing ground is a 2005 independent film directed by bryan wizemann adapted from wizemanns play of the same name.
The film never received distribution outside of festival screenings in director kathleen collinss lifetime. Glorious film to look at, with the low budget, how they got this to look so beautiful with its color is amazing. It has been listed as one of the most influential books on policy and social science in. Losing ground is an art film, but its artiness is easy to succumb to. Bryan wizemanns haunting and elegiac feature film debut is a contemporary portrait of ritual and superstition, intimacy and estrangement. But a river runs through it is the story about all generations.
Losing ground 1982 watch full movie online netflix us. Losing ground will premiere on national television on may 27 on rfdtv. Losing ground bluray losing ground dvd dont miss a single recommendation. It follows seven people over the course of a single night in a las vegas videopoker bar, and their tangled interactions. With seret scott, bill gunn, duane jones, maritza rivera. A local bar in las vegas is a bar for gambling, losing ground is the story of one such place. Watch losing ground online stream full movie directv. Losing ground 1982 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Both films were shot in rockland county, new york, and are currently distributed by milestone films. Losing ground the landmark american indie on milestone. It is the first featurelength drama directed by a black american woman since the 1920s and won first prize at the figueroa international film festival in portugal. Once victor starts wandering around the neighborhood looking for potential models, however, accompanied by a jazz soundtrack, losing ground gets a lot more relaxed and flavorful, and those qualities remain even when it returns to sara. Losing ground 1982 kathleen collins, billie allen, gary bolling, clarence branch jr. Had it screened widely in its time, it would have marked film history. Artist bill gunn is married to philosophy professor seret scott. Nearing the completion of a book project, thirtysomething.
Tell it like it is, a chapter of new york from 1968 to. Collinss only featurelength film was among the first. Also suggest that people who get this film, also get ganja and hess, because both of these films have duane jones and bill gunn, and though gunn is only briefly in ganja and hess, he was the director of that film, made some 9 years earlier. Long before dustin hoffmans character got all wrapped up in the traps of modern suburbia, norman maclean and his brother paul were facing the same crushing pressures of growing up as they tried to find their place in the world. Watch losing ground on criterion channel stream of the. About the publisher forgotten books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books.
Finally receiving a long overdue theatrical run, losing ground is one of the first feature films written and directed by a black woman and a groundbreaking romance exploring womens sexuality. Its an inspiring work of cinema, portraying intellectuals of african descent without succumbing to caricature. The film is part of tell it like it is, a survey of black independent film of new york from 1968 to 1986. If the film was shot in sequence, the difference is profound. A groundbreaking film by director kathleen collins, this work follows a black philosophy professor, sara rogers seret scott, and her. I found the theme of the film very moving, about the struggle between the repression of the superego for lack of a better term and giving in to a higher power or internal feelingsimpulses, which the main character describes as finding ecstatic experience. Ebook losing ground as pdf download portable document format. Seven people come in, interact, strike up friendships of convenience, win, lose, and go home.
Streaming full losing ground 1982 first, once you can rate this movie. The american angus association presents the first film to expose the impact of urban sprawl on american agriculture. Losing ground is an underrated entry in the black film canon. A philosophy professor seret scott prides herself on being liberal but is jealous of her artist husbands bill gunn gorgeous model maritza rivera. Losing ground meditates on art as it examines a marriage. Just click the edit page button at the bottom of the page or learn more in the synopsis submission guide. The principle difference between this and other such films is that all the characters are africanamerican. Losing ground, kathleen collinss 1982 film, which wasnt released until 2015, is about to come out on dvd and bluray, thanks to milestone films. Watch losing ground starring bill gunn in this comedy on directv. You can write, losing ground 1982 is a good movie, but it can be is a bad movie. Losing ground is a amusing but standard menage a trois, set in a small college town. Kathleen collinss lost masterwork, losing ground the.
Quiet, somber film about a marital breakup from the first female african american director, kathleen collins. While the lens through which black identity is viewed in film has evolved in many ways since collins was directing, it is still exceedingly rare to watch a film like losing ground, which considers. Losing ground was first shown in june 1982 at irvington, nys town hall theater, presumably as a local premiere. Losing ground is a semiautobiographical 1982 film written and directed by kathleen collins starring seret scott, bill gunn, and duane jones. A with the directors daughter, author nina collins.
It was only decades after she died, that her daughter, who had inherited the negatives of the film, approached milestone films, and asked them to help restore and release the film. C oncerning the creative and emotional restlessness of a philosophy professor across an extended sabbatical, kathleen collinss losing ground is undoubtedly a summer movie, a tale of indolence and indecision in which the sticky specter of heat is an invisible inciting factor. Rent losing ground 2005 starring eileen oconnell and kendall pigg on dvd and bluray. The film that opens the series, kathleen collinss losing ground, from 1982, will play for a week, making up for the fact that it has never had a theatrical release. The condition of farmworkers in america all of the recommendations re. March 12, 2019 a comedydrama about a black american female philosophy professor and her insensitive, philandering, and flamboyant artist husband who are having a marital crisis.
It looks like we dont have a synopsis for this title yet. American social policy, 19501980 is a 1984 book about the effectiveness of welfare state policies in the united states between 1950 and 1980 by the political scientist charles murray. New film, losing ground, exposes impact of urban sprawl. What happened to kathleen collins the village voice. In partnership with the hollywood theatres feminist march programming, the portland oregon womens film fest pow film fest is proud to present kathleen collins lost masterwork losing ground.
Sara seret scott, a university professor, spends the summer in a rented house with her artist husband victor bill gunn. After the premier, the film will be released on youtube for everyone to view. Losing ground was the first featurelength drama directed by a black american woman and won first prize at the figueroa international film festival in portugal, garnering much international acclaim. Always remember dont trust the opinion of losing ground 1982 on the internet because the authors paid to write a comment. Kathleen collinss 1982 film losing ground the latest selection in kinoscopes screening series at the new school, and the last of this seasonhas historical interest to burn, as one of the first features to be directed by an africanamerican woman. The film s only new york city screening was on a monday night on january 24, 1983 as part of. Whats a criminally underseen film independent, adultthemed, brazenly honest, and the first featurelength drama directed by a black american woman since the 1920s kathleen collins groundbreaking dramedy losing ground has enjoyed a small resurgence this century as cinephiles rediscovered the remarkable 1982 picture which seemed lost to. Kathleen collinss groundbreaking 1982 movie losing ground opens on a black female philosophy professor seret scott talking camus and sartre to a. Duane jones and seret scott in kathleen collinss losing ground 1982. Emblematic of the difficulties that women in the independent film industry faced at the time, the film. In direct contrast with the current zeitgeist of a las vegas myth, losing ground is a personal and closely observed work on the addictions of human nature. Marital strife causes an evenkeeled professor to behave in ways that shake her relationship. Losing ground 1982 1h 26min comedy, drama june 1982 usa sara, a cold college professor, and her husband, an ecstatic painter, spend a summer away from the city, straining their rocky relationship.
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