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Two films by Horace Ové [videorecording]

Format
DVD; Video
Summary
Pressure: "Hailed as Britain's first black feature film, PRESSURE is a hard-hitting, honest document of the plight of disenchanted British-born black youths. Set in 1970s London, it tells the story of Tony, a bright school-leaver, son of West Indian immigrants, who finds himself torn between his parents' church-going conformity and his brother's Black Power militancy"--Container.Baldwin's nigger: "In this documentary James Baldwin and Dick Gregory talk about the black experience in America and relate it with that of the Caribbean and Great Britain today"--Opening credits.
Director
Horace Ové
Performer(s)
Cast for Pressure: Herbert Norville, Oscar James, Frank Singuineau, Lucita Lijertwood, Sheila Scott-Wilkinson, Ed Deveraux, T-Bone Wilson, Ramjohn Holder, Norman Beaton.Lecturers in Baldwin's nigger: James Baldwin, Dick Gregory.
Release Date
2005
Run Time
164 min.
Language
In English.
Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing.
Notes
Collective title from disc label.
Special features: interview with Ové conducted by Jason Wood (c2005, 36 min.); gallery of photographs by Ové.
Booklet includes an essay by Derek Malcolm ("Horace Ové and 'Pressure'"), a biography of Ové, a filmography of Ové, a contemporaneous review of "Pressure" by David Wilson (originally published in the April 1978 issue of "Monthly Film Bulletin"), a contemporaneous profile of Ové by Stuart Hood (originally published on Sept. 17, 1978 in the "Sunday Times"), and a brief interview with Ové about "Baldwin's nigger" conducted by Jason Wood.
Related title
Pressure.
Baldwin's nigger.
Edition
Standard format.
Contents
  • Pressure (c1975, col., 120 min.) / photography, Mike Davis ; editor, Alan J. Cumner-Price ; screenplay, Horace Ové, Samuel Selvon ; producer, Robert Buckler ; director, Horace Ové ; British Film Institute
  • Baldwin's nigger ([1969], b&w, 44 min.) / presented by Infilms ; camera, Gordon Cradock ; editors, John Broderick, Alexis Findon ; produced and directed by Horace Ové
Credits
Baldwin's nigger: directed by Horace Ové. Documentary of a lecture by eminent American author and political commentator James Baldwin, accompanied by comedian and author Dick Gregory.
Published
London :BFI Video Pub.,[2005?]
Recording information
Pressure was shot on location in London. Baldwin's nigger is a live recording of a discussion at the West Indian Student Centre in London.
Publisher no.
BFIVD714 BFI Video Publishing
VFC17069 BFI Video Publishing
Description
1 videodisc (164 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([10] p. : ill. ; 18 cm.) DVD, region 2.
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