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Losing Ground is a semiautobiographical 1982 American drama film written and directed by Kathleen Collins, and starring Seret Scott, Bill Gunn and Duane Jones. It is the first feature-length drama directed by an African-American woman since the 1920s and won First Prize at the Figueira da Foz International Film Festival in Portugal.
- Michael Minard
- June 1982
- Eleanor Charles
Losing Ground: Directed by Kathleen Collins. With Seret Scott, Bill Gunn, Duane Jones, Billie Allen. Sara, a cold college professor, and her husband, an ecstatic painter, spend a summer away from the city, straining their rocky relationship.
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- Comedy, Drama
- Kathleen Collins
- 1982-06
A philosophy professor (Seret Scott) prides herself on being liberal but is jealous of her artist husband's (Bill Gunn) gorgeous model (Maritza Rivera).
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- William Gunn
- Kathleen Collins
- Comedy, Drama
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Directed by Kathleen Collins • 1982 • United States. Starring Seret Scott, Bill Gunn, Duane Jones. One of the first feature films directed by an African American woman, Kathleen Collins’s LOSING GROUND tells the story of a marriage between two remarkable people, both at a crossroads in their lives.
Apr 15, 2016 · By J. Hoberman. April 15, 2016. Barely released in 1982 and all but unseen for over three decades, Kathleen Collins’s “Losing Ground” is a lively movie — as well as a ghostly one. Ms ...
Jul 16, 2015 · July 16, 2015. The only feature directed by Kathleen Collins, from 1982, went unseen for more than thirty years; it’s a rediscovered masterwork. It’s the story of a middle-class black couple in New...
Summaries. Sara, a cold college professor, and her husband, an ecstatic painter, spend a summer away from the city, straining their rocky relationship. A comedy-drama about a Black American female philosophy professor and her insensitive, philandering, flamboyant artist husband, who are having a marital crisis.
