New Restorations from Milestone Films
Lost Films of Kathleen Collins
- Thursday, March 21, 2013 7:00 p.m.
- Free, but ticketed
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At the time of her death in 1988, Kathleen Collins was
just 46 years old, but already an internationally renowned
playwright, a beloved professor and a successful independent
filmmaker. After nearly 30 years of being out of circulation, Milestone Films will be releasing her two films that
Nina Lorenz Collins has digitally restored from
original camera negatives to look and sound as fresh, bracing
and complex as they did when they were made.
The Cruz Brothers and Miss Malloy (1980) is a short story of three
Puerto Rican brothers scraping by while contending with the
ghost of their dead father.
Losing Ground (1982), one of the very first fictional features by an African-American woman filmmaker, is the story of a black philosophy professor whose artist husband rents a summer country house to celebrate a museum sale. Their idyll summer challenges their relationship as they struggle to find ecstatic experience, both intellectually and emotionally. (HD Cam presentation)
Dennis Doros is scheduled to be present.
For information on the Jorgensen Lecture with Dennis Doros, click here.
