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Pressure / Baldwin's Nigger
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(DVD - Code 2: Englandimport)
(England-Import)
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PRESSURE + BALDWIN'S NIGGER
Two films by Horace Ové
HaiIed as Britain's first black feature film, Horace Ové's Pressure is a hard-hitting and honest document of the struggle and disenchantment faced by British-born black youths. Set in 1970s London, it tells the story of Tony, son of West lndian immigrants who finds himseIf torn between his parents church-going conformity and his brother's Black Power miIitancy. ln his un-heroic, honest way, Tony goes along with his family's aspirations for him: a quiet life and a career in accounting. Despite being a bright school leaver, his efforts to find a job prove futiIe. The acts of open discrimination he encounters bring home to him the harsh reality of survival in a country where he is treated as an outsider despite him having his roots there. In a bid to find a sense of beIonging, he joins his bIack friends who, estranged from their submissive parents, seek a sense of purpose in the streets and in chases with the police.
An angry but sincere and balanced fiIm, Pressure deals with the identity struggIes that children of immigrants have to face. Horace Ové makes the most of his combination of professional actors and locaI non-actors from the streets - the Iatter briIliantly represented by the subtIe Iead performance of Herbert NorvilIe as Tony, whose real-Iife frustrations growing up in raciaIly tense London mirrored to a Iarge extent those of his character.
UK | 1975 | coIour | OptionaI hard-of-hearing subtitIes | 120 minutes | Ratio 1.33:1 | Region 2 DVD
BaIdwin's Nigger (1969) is a striking portrait of the writer James BaIdwin at his sharp-witted best, addressing a group of radicaI West Indian students in 1960s London. Accompanied by comedian and civil rights activist Dick Gregory, Baldwin discusses what it means to be bIack in America, comparing it to the experience of the British BIack community. lmpassioned and entertaining, this is a fascinating snapshot of one of America's most powerfuI novelists and spokesman for a generation.
Extras
Filmed interview with Horace Ové
StilIs gaIIery of Horace Ové's photographic work
FulIy iIIustrated booklet
UK | 1969 | bIack & white | OptionaI hard-of-hearing subtitIes | 44 minutes | Ratio 1.33:1 | Region 2 DVD |
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