Bill Gunn
Birthday: 1934-07-15
Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Biography: Bill Gunn was an American playwright, novelist, actor and film director. His 1973 cult classic horror film Ganja and Hess was chosen as one of ten best American films of the decade at the Cannes Film Festival, 1973. In the New Yorker, film critic Richard Brody described him as being “a visionary filmmaker left on the sidelines of the most ostensibly liberated period of American filmmaking.” His drama Johnnas won an Emmy award in 1972.
Movies
Ganja & Hess
After being stabbed with an ancient, germ-infested knife, a doctor finds himself with an insatiable ...
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Losing Ground
Sara, a cold college professor, and her husband, an ecstatic painter, spend a summer away from the c...
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Crossroads
In Toronto, early twenty-somethings Judy Monroe and Roy Kirby are in love and are planning to get ma...
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Personal Problems
An “experimental soap opera” centered on a Harlem nurse, her husband, her father-in-law, and her lov...
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The Sound and the Fury
Drama focusing on a family of Southern aristocrats who are trying to deal with the dissolution of th...
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Penelope
When Penelope gets married to banker James Elcott, she finds him too preoccupied with work to pay mu...
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The Interns
During their first year of internship at New North Hospital, a group of aspiring doctors undergo bot...
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Montgomery Clift
A documentary incorporating footage of Montgomery Clift’s most memorable films; interviews with fami...
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