Losing ground 1982 changes the movie database tmdb. Nina, rescued the original negative and created a new digital master of her mothers film. Losing ground is a semiautobiographical 1982 film written and directed by kathleen collins starring seret scott, bill gunn, and duane jones. Filmmaker ava duvernay shares her favorite classic films. Losing ground was first shown in june 1982 at irvington, nys town hall theater, presumably as a local premiere. This lowbudget 1982 drama was one of the first features directed by an africanamerican woman, but its much more than a historical footnote. Quiet, somber film about a marital breakup from the first female african american director, kathleen collins. Losing ground collins, 1982 should have been a lot of things. Duvernay didnt have to wait 33 years for her film to be released.
Kathleen collins losing ground, a classic africanamerican film about a black philosophy professor, sara and victor, her artist husband. A comedydrama about a black american female philosophy professor and her insensitive, philandering, and flamboyant artist husband who are having a marital crisis. The truest test of a movie the current the criterion. The foremost quality of losing ground is the writing, with its nuanced but direct dialectic, around an intellectual university professor crushed by her painter husband and her mother. Alle films zijn voorzien van nederlandse ondertiteling. Definition and synonyms of lose ground from the online english dictionary from macmillan education. Finding her artist husband away from their upstate ny summer studio, professor sara seret scott fends off a student film maker, then locates victor bill gunn who has, it turns out, been painting a puerto rican model maritza rivera, in director kathleen collins losing. Fast times at ridgemont high was the book that came out of that experience, essentially a year in the life of a california high school.
Files are available under licenses specified on their description page. The story of a marriage of two remarkable people, both at a crossroads in their lives. Losing ground 1982 kathleen collins, billie allen, gary. Kathleen collins was a brilliant, highly talented professor of film. A philosophy professor seret scott prides herself on being liberal but is. Film society lincoln center poland 22 october 2015 american film festival australia 30 july 2016 melbourne international film festival also known as aka original title losing ground. Finding her artist husband away from their upstate ny summer studio, professor sara seret scott fends off a student filmmaker, then locates victor bill gunn who has, it turns out, been painting a puerto rican model maritza rivera, in director kathleen collins losing. Losing ground 1982 is one of the few independent films made in the 1980s by a black woman director. He is the author of several other books, including the new york times bestseller the bell curve, coming apart. Losing ground 1982 kathleen collins, billie allen, gary bolling, clarence branch jr.
But what earns her place in history is that when she wrote and directed losing ground, she was one of the first africanamerican women to produce a feature length drama. But even the lack of laws on the books regarding stalking when the film was made doesnt totally excuse its absence of logic. This page was last edited on 29 september 2018, at 06. This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title losing ground. Change your default dictionary to american english. Losing ground meditates on art as it examines a marriage. Losing ground, a film by kathleen collins home facebook. With irwin corey, virginia penta, mark mikulski, albert pia.
Tcm messageboards post your comments here add your comment. The official trailer for kathleen collins losing ground starring seret scott, bill gunn, duane jones and gary bolling. Losing ground is a amusing but standard menage a trois, set in a small college town. 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. This is the british english definition of lose ground. The films only new york city screening was on a monday night on january 24, 1983 as part of. Losing ground now looks and sounds as fresh, bracing, and complex as it did when it was. Losing ground dvd deluxe edition drama 784148014746. Losing ground is a short documentary film about how families access services for their children with autism. Losing ground directed by kathleen collins is a amusing but standard menage a trois, set in a small college town.
Losing ground opens for a week starting friday, february 6th at the film society of lincoln center in new york. Made in 1982, kathleen collinss losing ground her first and only feature and the first feature film ever made by a. Paul kersey, played by charles bronson is trying to pick up the pieces and help his daughter do the. It should have been the foundation of a long career and important filmography. Podknife episode 129 losing ground by the magic lantern. December 8 comedian eddie murphy makes his film debut in 48 hrs. Like the recent rediscovery of kathleen collins losing ground also from 1982 its a vital artifact from a lost part of film history, a tantalizing glimpse of a nascent black. 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. Brady scholar at the american enterprise institute. The film features families and service providers discussing the experiences and struggles as they advocate for children with autism. A year later, crowes screenplay version of the book was a. The thing also known as john carpenters the thing is a 1982 science fiction horror film directed by john carpenter, written by bill lancaster, and starring kurt russell.
Lose ground phrase definition and synonyms macmillan. Overstepping the expected racial dialectics, the film brutally targets the disdain. Duvernay is looking forward to audiences discovering 1982s losing ground and kathleen collins in particular, who she considers on par with. The film was never released beyond screenings at film festivals and collins died in 1988 at the young age of 46. Enter challenges, watch videos, and take part in our annual vote to decide the best film, tv show and game of the year. The principle difference between this and other such films is that all the characters are africanamerican.
Barely released in 1982 and all but unseen for over three decades, kathleen collinss losing ground is a lively movie as well as a ghostly one. 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. Guilty pleasures dont get much guiltier than 1982s the seduction, a glossy, but ridiculously contrived potboiler made before the term stalking became well known. Introductions necessary listen via stitcher for podcasts. Losing ground documentary subsistence farmers in subsaharan africa are among the populations most affected by desertification, land degradation and water stress.
We use cookies to personalize content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyze our traffic. When the wife goes off on an almost unbelievable journey to find. Losing ground 1982 movie clip is this puerto rican. All structured data from the file and property namespaces is available under the creative commons cc0 license. Ava duvernay shares favorite classic films inquirer. It will go on to launch the extremely popular rambo film franchise. Eric eidelstein dont you take your dick out like it was artistic, like its some god damn paintbrush. A psychological horror film that leaves you wanting to come up for air. Baftas destination for youngsters to come and discover the magical worlds of film, television and games. This 1982 film by kathleen collins is one of the first independent features written and directed by a black woman. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.
Kathleen collins deserves respect for managing to produce her feature film losing ground even before you consider that she achieved this in 1982 as an independent filmmaker. Losing ground info and ticket booking, bristol watershed. Unfortunately, she directed only this one commercial film, and tragically, she died when she was just 46 years old. Duvernay is looking forward to audiences discovering 1982. 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. Sara rogers, a black professor of philosophy, is embarking on an intellectual quest to understand ecstasy just as her painter husband victor sets off on a more earthy exploration of joy. Kathleen collinss lost masterwork, losing ground the. One of the first fictional features written and directed by a black female american director, the late kathleen collins losing ground was hardly screened at all in cinemas when it was released. A couple with marriage problems goes to family court, where a judge takes them back in time to view lovers through the ages. A prominent political scientist and author, he first came to national attention in 1984 with the publication of losing ground, which served as the intellectual foundation for the welfare reform act of 1996. Overview of losing ground, 1982, directed by kathleen collins, with seret scott, bill gunn, duane jones, at turner classic movies. Filmmaker ava duvernay shares her favourite classic films. In the second tale of a quiet architects life, after a spree that involved revenge for the death of the mother of his daughter carol, daddy is doing whatever he can to bring things back to normal. Film genres, title, year, country, length, director, description.