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With “Ganja & Hess” and “Personal Problems,” Bill Gunn made two of the most daring American movies. Elissa Suh 06 Aug 2020. A Blazing Field of Colours Running Amok: Bill Gunn's "Personal Problems" A newly restored experimental soap opera written by poet Ishmael Reed radically captures African American life in 1980 New York.
In 1979, producer Walter Cotton, screenwriter Ishmael Reid and director Bill Gunn shot on 3/4 inch videotape a 39 minute “pilot” for a self-described Black soap opera. The screenplay, which provided plenty of scope for improvisation, was developed from a radio show that went to air in four episodes in 1977 and 1978.
3 de jul. de 2018 · Bill Gunn—actor, playwright, novelist, and director of the art-horror classic Ganja and Hess (1973)—teamed with novelist/essayist Ishmael Reed and poet/publisher Steve Cannon to produce what Reed has called a “meta-soap opera.” This extraordinary, ...
30 de mar. de 2018 · 'Personal Problems,' a nearly unseen 1980 work by 'Ganja & Hess' director Bill Gunn, chronicles the stresses on a black couple in Manhattan.
3 de jul. de 2018 · The recent release of Bill Gunn’s Personal Problems (Kino Lorber) marks a major intervention in correcting this limited history. Not much has been written about it. Nicholas Forster, a PhD ...
28 de mar. de 2018 · Review: Personal Problems. The miniseries derives its politics less from platitude than from an uncompromising sense of emotional irony. Billed as a “meta-soap opera,” Personal Problems is nothing less than an explosion of the television form. Directed by Bill Gunn, the two-part, nearly three-hour miniseries was shot on video for a low ...
3 de jul. de 2018 · Kino Classics will bring to Blu-ray director Bill Gunn's film Personal Problems (1980), starring Vertamae Grosvenor, Walter Cotton, and Mizan Kirby. The release will be available for purchase on ...
