Pressure & Baldwin's Nigger : Two films by Horace Ové
Pressure & Baldwin's Nigger : Two films by Horace Ové DVD
Pressure [DVD]. Baldwin's nigger [DVD].
- London : BFI Video Publishing, [2005?]
- 1 DVD (164 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([10] p. : ill. ; 18 cm.)
- 164 min
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
System requirements: DVD player or PC with a DVD ROM drive.
DVD, region 2.
In English.
Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing.
5035673007143
BFIVD714 BFI Video Publishing VFC17069 BFI Video Publishing
Youth, Black--England--London--Drama.
Blacks--Social conditions.
Blacks--Intellectual life.
London (England)--Social conditions--Drama.
London (England)--Ethnic relations--Drama.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
System requirements: DVD player or PC with a DVD ROM drive.
DVD, region 2.
In English.
Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing.
5035673007143
BFIVD714 BFI Video Publishing VFC17069 BFI Video Publishing
Youth, Black--England--London--Drama.
Blacks--Social conditions.
Blacks--Intellectual life.
London (England)--Social conditions--Drama.
London (England)--Ethnic relations--Drama.