A Day in the Life of Willie Faust or Death on the Installment Plan (1972)

Jamaa Fanakas first project plays off the Blaxploitations genre conventions an adaption of Goethes Faust presented with a nonsynchronous soundtrack and superimposed over a remake of Super Fly 1972 Often out of focus with an overactive camera the film immediately exudes nervous energy but unlike Priests elegant cocaine consumption in Super Fly Willies arm gushes blood as he injects heroin A morality tale in two reels JanChristopher Horak