Treasures from the Yale Film Archive: Pressure
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Time:
Thursday, October 24, 2024 - 7:00pm to 9:15pm
Location:
Humanities Quadrangle, L01
320 York Street
New Haven, CT
06511
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Description:
Pressure (Horace Ové, 1976, 35mm, 126 mins)
New print! The UK’s first Black feature-length drama stars Herbert Norville as a young Brit navigating life in Ladbroke Grove, not quite at home with either his Windrush-generation Trinidadian family or an unaccepting English establishment. Pressure “has the punchy quality of a 21st-century graphic novel, eagerly tackling Black Power and social realism, mixing comedy, tragedy, and irony” (Peter Bradshaw). 35mm print from the Yale Film Archive.
The “Treasures from the Yale Film Archive” series is presented with support from Paul L. Joskow ’70 M.Phil., ’72 Ph.D.