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b'Featuring the talents of Bill Gunn (Ganja & Hess), Vertamae Grosvenor (Daughters of the Dust), Ishmael Reed, and many others,\\xa0Personal Problems\\xa0was originally intended as \\u201can experimental soap opera\\u201d for WNET, the public broadcast station in New York. It never aired and was thought lost for many years, but the film has been newly restored by Kino Lorber and will be traveling theatrically soon, beginning with a run at Metrograph.\\xa0Written by Ishmael Reed and shot in 1979,\\xa0Personal Problems\\xa0stars Vertamae Grosvenor as Johnnie Mae, a nurse\\u2019s aide at Harlem Hospital who\\u2019s having an affair\\xa0behind the back of\\xa0her uptight transit worker husband\\xa0Charles (Walter Cotton).\\xa0In the March/April 2018 issue, Howard Hampton writes about this incredible work, a \\u201cmotion picture [that] is inventing its language as it goes along\\u2014a series of building blocks of different shapes, tones, and materials creating a homemade Cubist mosaic.\\xa0Personal Problems\\xa0balances hands-on and hands-off approaches.\\u201d Tobi Haslett, contributor to\\xa0N+1,\\xa04Columns, and\\xa0The New Yorker, speaks with FC Digital Producer Violet Lucca about this distinctive work.'