![]() ![]() ![]() Decades later, her daughter discovered the original 16mm reels of Losing Ground,had them remastered, and launched the effort to bring the film to light. The picture was unseen theatrically until 2015, when it drew raves (and comparisons to the works of Woody Allen and Éric Rohmer) as the headliner of the 2015 Lincoln Center series "Tell It Like It Is: Black Independents in New York, 1968–1986." The New Yorker called Losing Ground a "masterwork," while the New York Times said it was "a bulletin from a vital and as-yet-unexplored dimension of reality"-a territory that director Spike Lee would secure four years later with his indie hit, She's Gotta Have It.īut Collins died in 1988, at 46. Collins was among the first black women to write, direct, and produce a movie. ![]()
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