Join us for a screening of a different vintage classic every last Sunday afternoon of the month at Old Town Hall, located down the street at 201 Delaware St. Admission is a sliding scale of $5-10, though no one will be turned away for lack of funds. Refreshments will be available for purchase.
On Sunday, February 22, Old Town Matinees is proud to present an exclusive screening of Personal Problems, directed by Bill Gunn, 1980.
"[Personal Problems] embodies the spirit of independent film. Bill Gunn is one of the most under-appreciated filmmakers of his time." - Spike Lee
An "experimental soap opera" centered on a Harlem nurse, her husband, her father-in-law, and her lover, Personal Problems is an entirely African American-conceived and produced ensemble drama, the result of a collaboration of a pair of pioneering Black artists: writer Ishmael Reed and filmmaker Bill Gunn, who wrote and directed the underground classic Ganja & Hess and wrote the screenplay for Hal Ashby's The Landlord. Originally intended to air on public television in 1980, it went unseen for many years; the original tapes have been carefully restored by Kino Lorber, making the full-length version of Personal Problems available for the first time in decades. A true cinematic event for New Castle, Delaware.
Personal Problems is 165 minutes long and unrated. There will be a brief intermission during the screening.
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