Ganja & Hess
Some Marriages Are Made In Heaven. Others Are Made In Hell.
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DVD Details
- Rated: Unrated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 53 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 8, 2012
- Originally Released: 1973
- Label: Kino Lorber
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Marlene Clark & Duane Jones | |
Performer: | Betty Barney, Leonard Jackson, Mabel King & Bill Gunn | |
Directed by | Bill Gunn | |
Screenwriting by | Bill Gunn | |
Composition by | Sam Waymon | |
Cinematography by | James Hinton | |
Produced by | Chiz Schultz |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/4 --
...an experimental overlapping of dialogue, image, voiceover and music that makes you feel as if you're suffering from an awful fever dream.
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LarsenOnFilm
A meandering but stylish jumble.
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ReelTalk Movie Reviews
GANJA & HESS is wholly original and unclassifiable, a film unlike anything else in either the blaxploitation or horror genres....Gunn uses vampirism as a hypnotic metaphor for addiction and identity.
Film Comment
Whether by accident or design, [Gunn's} creating a new kind of artistic expression out of imagery that had been used to titillate and exploit, a sort of pushback against the producers who wanted him to make a "black vampire movie."
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Citizen Dame
Rating: 4/5 --
(In Ganja and Hess) we get a devastating art film that raises more intriguing philosophical questions than hairs on the back of one's neck.
PopMatters
Rating: A --
A forgotten masterpiece.
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Product Description:
Writer/producer Bill Gunn's elusive African-American vampire film earned a standing ovation at the 1973 Cannes Film Fest, where it was the only American film screened that year. In brief, it tells the tale of Dr. Hess Green (Duane Jones of NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD), a professor who, through a strange bite he received on a trip to Africa, developed a lust for blood and the inability to age. When he is reunited with a lover, Ganja, who is dealing with the same condition, Hess begins to question his existence in this difficult way of life. Gunn combines religious and philosophical overtones with the expected violence against a thick Southern backdrop (though filmed in upstate New York). The word "vampire" is never mentioned once. Why then has this spellbinding cinematic enigma been screened so rarely and available only sporadically and in severely cut form' Is it a horror film or an "art" film' You decide.
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