#bill gunn

[amazingannaanya]

“Is red one of your favourite colours? I wore white cos I wore black when I got here, and I thought you’d kinda like this. But if you like red, I’ll wear red.”

Ganja & Hess (1973) dir. Bill Gunn

#ganja & hess #ganja and hess #bill gunn #filmedit #horroredit #black cinema #1970s #blood #duane jones #marlene clark

[phantomladyoverparis]

The Landlord (1970), dir. Hal Ashby  

#The Landlord #hal ashby #bill gunn #70s #cinematic cats #american cinema

[cinematicjourney]

Losing Ground (1982) | dir. Kathleen Collins

#losing ground #kathleen collins #seret scott #bill gunn #maritza rivera #films #movies #cinematography #screencaps

[blueiight]

It was as though I was a disease. I have a brother that's ten years older than I am and a sister that's eight years.. older than I am. So that I was obviously an accident. And it was, "Ganja, I came down with Ganja," you know? … Maybe because she hurt me so badly. All that time up till then, I really worked for her to say, "I love you. You're a wonderful girl, Ganja."

She could never, ever say that. The only thing she could ever bring herself to say was that I was beautiful. And I loathed my beauty for that, because she found it appealing. But that was a very decisive day in my life, because that day I decided that I would provide for Ganja always.

Do whatever had to be done. Take whatever steps had to be taken. But always take care of Ganja.

— MARLENE CLARK playing GANJA MEDA in GANJA & HESS, written by BILL GUNN

#yn. #ganja & hess #ganja meda #marlene clark #bill gunn #☀️

[videoreligion]

Happy Black History Month! Quick list of some of my favorite black horror directors, whose works stay in regular rotation around here.

#Bill Gunn #Chester Novell Turner #Ernest Dickerson #James Bond III #Kasi Lemmons #Michael Mfume #Rusty Cundieff #William Crain #Eve's Bayou #Ax 'Em #Ganja & Hess #Demon Knight #Tales from the Hood #Blacula #Dr. Black and Mr. Hyde #Def by Temptation #Horror Movies #black history month #cult cinema

[bilobatum]

The only perversions that can be comfortably condemned are the perversions of others.

GANJA & HESS (1973) dir. Bill Gunn

#this movie is soo gorgeous.. #screenshots #ganja & hess #bill gunn #film screencaps

[edwordsmyth]

Losing Ground, Kathleen Collins (1982)

#kathleen collins #bill gunn #seret scott #billie allen #noberto kerner #ronald k. gray

[wikipediafag]

ganja & hess (1973) dir. Bill Gunn

#ganja and hess #ganja & hess #bill gunn #horror #q

[fangerine]

"That day, I decided that I was a disease."

GANJA & HESS (1973) dir. Bill Gunn

#ganja & hess #bill gunn #horror #marlene clark #duane jones #film #movie edit #film edit #movies #gifs #gif set #movie gifs #gif edit #film gifs

[davidhudson]

Bill Gunn, July 15, 1934 – April 5, 1989.

With Marlene Clark in a promotional photo for Ganja & Hess (1973).

#bill gunn #marlene clark #cinema #film #movies

[filmsoftheflesh]

GANJA AND HESS was the only American film screened during Critic’s Week at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival, where it was named one of the 10 Best American Film of the Decade. It opened at Manhattan’s Playboy Theater a few weeks later. “The first time I saw the movie was at the opening-night screening in New York,” Clark reveals. “There was a splashy party afterward -- and being the lead actress, I was pretty much the star of the party! Nothing like that had ever happened to me before. It was wonderful.” The bubble burst the next day, however, when almost every New York critic panned the film. “When I read the reviews, I thought, ‘They didn’t get it,’” Clark remembers. “Many critics believe that black people make very straightforward, literal movies -- so Bill was really an enigma to them. They just did not understand what he had done.”

Gunn’s unique cinematic treatment of African-American spirituality and vampirism was also lost on the film’s distributor, Kelly-Jordan Enterprises. After a one-week run in Manhattan, the 110-minute version was pulled from circulation and replaced by a 76-minute bastardization called BLOOD COUPLE, with new credits listing “E.H. Novikov” (a pseudonym for film doctor Fima Noveck) as director. For nearly 25 years, it was this version that viewers were subjected to, both in theaters and on video, under such misleading titles as DOUBLE POSSESSION, BLACK EVIL, BLACK VAMPIRE, and BLACKOUT: THE MOMENT OF TERROR. "It never found much of an audience," Clark says, "but a number of industry people saw it, especially in New York, so I was offered some other movies."

Temple of shock, January 20 2011, Slinking Through the Seventies: An Interview with Marlene Clark, an expanded and revised interview by Chris Poggiali that originally appeared in Fangoria #191 (April 2000)

#marlene clark #ganja & hess #bill gunn #1973 #1970s #interview #not caps #film #horror #black horror #african american cinema #external source #tag review #ganja and hess

[phantomladyoverparis]

The Landlord (1970), dir. Hal Ashby  

#The Landlord #hal ashby #70s #marki bey #bill gunn #american cinema

[gotankgo]

Ganja & Hess (1973) USA

directed by Bill Gunn

#duane jones #marlene clark #ganja & hess #1973 #bill gunn

[blueiight]

MARLENE CLARK as MARLENA

STOP! (1970) — DIR. BY BILL GUNN

#yn. #marlene clark #stop (1970) #bill gunn #☀️

[fiftyftafro]

Marlene Clark in Ganja and Hess (1979), dir. Bill Gunn

#marlene clark #ganja and hess #bill gunn #70s #seventies #1970s #seventies horror #horror noire

[i-watch-too-many-movies]

50 Favorite First Viewings of 2022

1. AI: Artificial Intelligence (2001) (dir. Steven Spielberg)

2. Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (2021) (dir. Ryusuke Hamaguchi)

3. Cure (1997) (dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa)

4. Something Wild (1986) (dir. Jonathan Demme)

5. Sweet Charity (1969) (dir. Bob Fosse)

6. Double Indemnity (1944) (dir. Billy Wilder)

7. An Angel at My Table (1990) (dir. Jane Campion)

8. Ganja and Hess (1973) (dir. Bill Gunn)

9. In the Mood for Love (2000) (dir. Wong Kar-wai)

10. The Lady Eve (1941) (dir. Preston Sturges)

11. Barton Fink (1991) (dir. Joel & Ethan Coen)

12. The Wedding Banquet (1993) (dir. Ang Lee)

13. Watermelon Man (1970) (dir. Melvin Van Peebles)

14. Smooth Talk (1985) (dir. Joyce Chopra)

15. Exotica (1994) (dir. Atom Egoyan)

16. Drive My Car (2021) (dir. Ryusuke Hamaguchi)

17. Paths of Glory (1957) (dir. Stanley Kubrick)

18. Smiley Face (2007) (dir. Gregg Araki)

19. Heat (1995) (dir. Michael Mann)

20. Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (1968) (dir. William Greaves)

21. Fox and His Friends (1974) (dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder)

22. Bright Star (2009) (dir. Jane Campion)

23. Tape (2001) (dir. Richard Linklater)

24. Magick Lantern Cycle (1948-1981) (dir. Kenneth Anger)

25. La cérémonie (1995) (dir. Claude Chabrol)

26. Aliens (1986) (dir. James Cameron)

27. Better Than Chocolate (1999) (dir. Anne Wheeler)

28. The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) (dir. Joel & Ethan Coen)

29. Häxän (1922) (dir. Benjamin Christensen)

30. Burn After Reading (2008) (dir. Joel & Ethan Coen)

31. The Story of a Three-Day Pass (1967) (dir. Melvin Van Peebles)

32. 2046 (2004) (dir. Wong Kar-wai)

33. Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002) (dir. Park Chan-wook)

34. The Last Detail (1973) (dir. Hal Ashby)

35. Charade (1963) (dir. Stanley Donen)

36. Far from Heaven (2002) (dir. Todd Haynes)

37. Broadcast News (1987) (dir. James L. Brooks)

38. The Man Who Wasn't There (2001) (dir. Joel & Ethan Coen)

39. One Week (1920) (dir. Buster Keaton)

40. The Learning Tree (1969) (dir. Gordon Parks)

41. Clue (1985) (dir. Jonathan Lynn)

42. A Simple Plan (1998) (dir. Sam Raimi)

43. Poison (1991) (dir. Todd Haynes)

44. Fishmans (2021) (dir. Yuki Teshima)

45. Masculin Féminin (1965) (dir. Jean-Luc Godard)

46. Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai (1999) (dir. Jim Jarmusch)

47. Lenny (1974) (dir. Bob Fosse)

48. Kuroneko (1968) (dir. Kaneto Shindo)

49. Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) (dir. Vincente Minnelli)

50. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1952) (dir. Howard Hawks)

#steven spielberg #ryusuke hamaguchi #wheel of fortune and fantasy #ai artificial intelligence #cure #kiyoshi kurosawa #something wild #jonathan demme #sweet charity #bob fosse #double indemnity #billy wilder #an angel at my table #jane campion #ganja and hess #bill gunn #in the mood for love #wong kar wai #the lady eve #preston sturges #barton fink #coen brothers #the wedding banquet #ang lee #watermelon man #melvin van peebles #smooth talk #joyce chopra