PRESSURE - Black filmmaker Horace Ové's watershed 1976 social drama - 4K restoration!

Fri Jun 14 2024 at 08:50 pm to 11:00 pm

11610 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH, United States, Ohio 44106 | Cleveland

Cinematheque at the Cleveland Institute of Art
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PRESSURE - Black filmmaker Horace Ov\u00e9's watershed 1976 social drama - 4K restoration!
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Friday, June 14, at 8:50 pm
New 4K Restoration!
PRESSURE
UK, 1976, Horace Ové
The first British feature to be written and directed by a Black filmmaker is a watershed social drama that its funder, the British Film Institute, shelved for three years due to its depiction of police brutality. Set during the 1970s, the movie focuses on a British-born young man from a Trinidadian family who wants to assimilate into English society. So he tries to find honest work in racist London. Meanwhile, his brother, a Black Panther member, says Blacks must organize and fend for themselves. “Vigorous and rough-hewn…Has the punchy quality of a 21st-century graphic novel.” –The Guardian (UK). Cleveland revival premiere. DCP. 126 min. www.janusfilms.com/films/2163
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