One of the most important films of the year, James Baldwin’s
I Am Not Your Negro is not to be missed!
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“A thrilling documentary about James Baldwin by the Haitian director Raoul Peck… At the heart of I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO is Baldwin’s never-completed project about the civil rights movement and three of his assassinated friends: Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr… The documentary resurrects Baldwin’s unrealized venture, primarily using his own words -- Samuel L. Jackson provides the moving, modulated voice-over – to create a portrait of one man’s confrontation with a country that, murder by murder, as he once put it, ‘devastated my universe.’ Brilliantly edited, (the film) moves across time and space seamlessly – insistently – sliding from the historical civil rights movement to more recent events, including Ferguson. Mr. Peck draws on a wealth of found and original visual material, including appalling excerpts from the F.B.I.’s files on Baldwin… Mr. Peck is a consummate filmmaker who deserves a larger American audience. He’ll get it when I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO opens.”
