Personal Problems (1980)

Name: Personal Problems (1980)
Genre: Drama
Released: March 30, 2018
Duration: 165 min
Rating: 84
Cast: Ishmael Reed, Mizan Nunes, Sam Waymon, Vertamae Grosvenor, Walter Cotton

2018

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Kino Lorber | Release Date: March 30, 2018 | Not Rated

Starring: Ishmael Reed, Mizan Nunes, Sam Waymon, Vertamae Grosvenor, Walter Cotton

Summary: This entirely African American-conceived and produced ensemble drama is the result of a collaboration of a pair of pioneering Black artists: writer Ishmael Reed and filmmaker Bill Gunn, who wrote and directed the underground classic Ganja & Hess and wrote the screenplay for Hal Ashby's The Landlord. Originally intended to air on publicThis entirely African American-conceived and produced ensemble drama is the result of a collaboration of a pair of pioneering Black artists: writer Ishmael Reed and filmmaker Bill Gunn, who wrote and directed the underground classic Ganja & Hess and wrote the screenplay for Hal Ashby's The Landlord. Originally intended to air on public television in 1980, it went unseen for many years; the original tapes have been carefully restored by Kino Lorber and the film is now available in its full-length version for the first time in decades.… Expand

Director: Bill Gunn

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 165 min

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Chuck Bowen

Mar 29, 2018

Bill Gunn and Ishmael Reed collapse conventional notions of reality, providing simultaneous glimpses into the minds of dozens of characters, lingering on scenes and informing them with confessional intensity. Read full review

Glenn Kenny

Mar 29, 2018

This is a work that looks as if it were evolving even as portions of it were completed. That’s entirely appropriate. For all its rough edges, Personal Problems retains a vitality and an integrity that practically bounds off the screen. Read full review

Richard Brody

Mar 29, 2018

The movie’s panoramic cityscapes teem with the gritty details of emotional life: romance and chores, hope and despair and loss, bitter resentments and rowdy reckonings with mortality. Read full review

John DeFore

Apr 3, 2018

Despite all appearances, Personal Problems is indeed moving toward a fairly conventional end. But along the way, it observes much of its era through the corners of its eyes. Read full review

Craig D. Lindsey

Mar 29, 2018

I guess that’s ultimately what Reed and Gunn wanted to provide: a view of African Americans that’s messy, complicated, dramatic, and, most important, honest. It’s also a fascinating artifact of black people getting together and making their own art — mainly because they wanted to see themselves properly represented onscreen. Read full review

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