Ganja and Hess

playing tonight in Brooklyn (Bill Gunn fest @BAM).

love this film. nothing like it. saw it three times in about two weeks early last year, really needed to get to the bottom of it

Being introduced Sunday night at Lincoln Ctr by Spike Lee... a week before his reportedly crap remake. :/

Spike didn't show.

Deeply, deeply strange, from Gunn's "cut"/"cunt" monologue on.

on Bill Gunn and g&h:

https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/ganja-and-hess-and-da-sweet-blood-of-jesus

^^ thanks for that article. 'Stop' sounds incredible (and I still have to see 'The Landlord')

kind of excited for Spike's remake, but mainly just because the original film is so utterly incredible. the trailer makes it look like a lot of the original's scenes are getting carried over, including the church scenes.

I wish there was a movie soundtrack for the original with Sam Waymon's music. Nina Simone's brother! that last theme, I'm probably going to have end up dubbing off the DVD.

oh man. this weekend.

http://www.rivertownfilm.org/samwaymon/

This has just been issued on a nice Region 2 Blu/DVD with gd extras:

https://www.eurekavideo.co.uk/classics/ganja-hess

Larry Cohen's Bone, aka Dial Rat for Terror, w/ Yaphet Kotto, wld work well on a dbl bill too.

looks nice

starring Mabel King, aka Roj & Dee Dee's mom from What's Happening, as the Queen of Myrria (that might not mean as much for UK audiences but when she made her first appearance, my childhood was instantly rewritten)