Bill Gunn
1) Ganja & Hess
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Flirting with the conventions of blaxploitation and the horror cinema, Bill Gunn's revolutionary independent film Ganja and Hess is a highly stylized and utterly original treatise on sex, religion, and African American identity. Duane Jones (Night of the living dead) stars as anthropologist Hess Green, who is stabbed with an ancient ceremonial dagger by his unstable assistant (director Bill Gunn), endowing him with the blessing of immortality, and...
Author
Series
Plays in process volume 10, no. 11
Publisher
Theatre Communications Group
Pub. Date
c1987
Language
English
3) The landlord
Publisher
Distributed ... by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A social satire about a wealthy young man (Bridges) who leaves his family's estate in Long Island to pursue love in a Brooklyn ghetto.
4) The landlord
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Legendary filmmaker Hal Ashby makes his directing debut with this acclaimed social satire starring Beau Bridges as a wealthy young man who leaves his family₂s estate in Long Island to pursue love and happiness in a Brooklyn ghetto. When Elgar Enders buys a Park Slope tenement, he fully intends to evict the occupants and transform the building into a chic bachelor pad.
5) Ganja & Hess
Publisher
Kino Classics
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
An archaeologist is stabbed with an ancient dagger that gives him immortality and an insatiable thirst for blood, which he then shares with his assistant's wife, and the two of them form a troubled partnership.
Series
Publisher
Milestone Film & Video
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Losing Ground: Tells the story of a marriage of two remarkable people, both at a crossroads in their lives. 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 earthly exploration of joy. Celebrating a recent museum sale, Victor decides to rent a country house where he can return to more realism after years working as an abstract expressionist....
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A new kind of love story. Dr. Hess Green becomes cursed by a mysterious ancient African artifact and is overwhelmed with a newfound thirst for blood. He however is not a vampire. Soon after his transformation he enters into a dangerous romance with Ganja Hightower that questions the very nature of love, addiction, sex, and status. -- Container.
8) Ganja & Hess
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dr. Hess Green, an archaeologist overseeing an excavation of an ancient civilization called Myrthia, is stabbed by his research assistant, who then commits suicide. When Hess wakes up, he finds that his wounds have healed, but he now has an insatiable thirst for blood. It turns out that the knife he was stabbed with carried ancient germs that have turned him into a vampire. Soon after, Hess meets his former assistant's wife, Ganja. Though Ganja...
