Losing ground

DVD 2016

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 expressio...

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College teachers Drama

Marital conflict Drama

Painters Drama

Self-realization Drama

Spouses Drama

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Drama Feature films Melodramas (Motion pictures) Video recordings for the hearing impaired

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Milestone cinematheque The Milestone cinematheque

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ISBN:

9781933920740

Edition:

2-disc deluxe edition

Description:

2 videodiscs (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
4 3/4 in. stamping
digital optical stereo
NTSC
video file DVD video region 1

Target Audience Note:

CHVR: Not rated

Other Title:

Cruz brothers and Miss Malloy
Transmagnifican dambamuality

Notes:

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1982; never theatrically released
Produced with grants from the American Film Institute and the National Endowment for the Arts
Special featureson disc 1: commentary track by professors LaMonda Horton-Stallings and Terri Francis; 2015 theatrical trailer. Special features on disc 2: The Cruz brothers and Miss Malloy (1980, 50 min.), Kathleen Collins and Ronald K. Gray's first film; video interviews with Ronald K. Gray (46:30), Seret Scott (40:17), Nina Lorez Collins (26:24); an interview with Kathleen Collins by Phyllis R. Klotman (1982, 22 min.); Transmagnifican dambamuality (1976, 7 min., black and white), Ronald K. Gray's celebrated "lost" student film
Cinematographic direction, Ronald K. Gray; editors, Ronald K. Gray, Kathleen Collins; music, Michael D. Minard; executive producers, Ronald K. Gray, Kathleen Collins
Seret Scott, Bill Gunn, Duane Jones, Maritza Rivera, Billie Allen, Gary Bolling, Norberto Kerner
DVD; NTSC, region 1; 16:9 presentation; Dolby digital 2.0
English dialogue with optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH)

Contents:

disc 1. Losing ground
disc 2. The Cruz brothers and Miss Malloy

Control Number:

1689274

UPC:

784148014746

Other Authors:

Allen, Billie, actor
Bolling, Gary, actor
Charles, Eleanor, film producer
Collins, Kathleen, 1942-1988, film director, screenwriter, editor of moving image work
Gray, Ronald K., director of photography, editor of moving image work
Gunn, Bill, 1934-1989, actor
Jones, Duane, actor
Kerner, Norberto, 1929-1999, actor
Losing Ground Productions, production company
Milestone Film & Video, publisher, conservationist
Minard, Michael D., composer (expression)
Oscilloscope Laboratories (Firm), film distributor
Rivera, Maritza, actor
Scott, Seret, actor

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