Luckily, we have not missed this:
Tuesday August 28 2007, 7:30PM ( Buy Ticket )
Restored to its original release version by the Museum of Modern Art with funds from The Film Foundation
GANJA AND HESS
(1973, United States) Directed by Bill Gunn
Though praised at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival, Bill Gunn’s independent production was aggressively recut and sold to the public as the next Blacula. Far from a horror-blaxpoitation variant, Gunn’s film is an experimental narrative suffused with gothic decadence and ambient mysticism. Soon after his introduction to troubled minister-cum-chauffeur George Meda (Gunn), affluent anthropologist Hess Green (Duane Jones, the hero of Romero’s original Night of the Living Dead) becomes infected with a vampiric bloodlust dating back to the ancient African tribe of Myrthia. When Meda’s seductive wife Ganja (Marlene Clark) contacts Green in search of her mercurial husband, a tragic union of the undead is forged.
Cast: Duane Jones, Marlene Clark, Bill Gunn, Sam Waymon, Leonard Jackson, Richard Harrow. 35mm, 110 min.
