Tisa Bryant & Ernest Hardy discuss the film "The Landlord"
Jun 20, 2018
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A Q&A with Tisa Bryant and Ernest Hardy following a screening of The Landlord. Written by visionary black filmmaker Bill Gunn and the first film of Oscar-winning director Hal Ashby, The Landlord is both a coming-of-age tale and a social satire. When wealthy, white Elger Winthrop Enders buys a tenement brownstone in 1960s Brooklyn, he plans to kick out its predominantly black residents but instead becomes entangledpersonally, romantically, and very messilyin the lives of his tenants.