Trailer Watch: Kathleen Collins’ 1982 Milestone in Black Film, Losing Ground

Lincoln Center’s vital series “Tell It Like It Is: Black Independents in New York, 1968-1986″ kicks off today, including a week-long debut theatrical run of Kathleen Collins’ 1982 Losing Ground. Believed to be the first African-American woman to direct a feature film (1980’s The Cruz Brothers and Mrs. Molloy), Collins’ 1982 second and final feature has never received a regular theatrical run until now. The story of a philosophy professor (Sereh Scott) and her landscape painter husband (Ganja and Hess director Bill Gunn) in the middle of a transformative vacation in upstate New York, the film is described as a […]

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