I Am Not Your Negro (2016)
Working from the text of James Baldwin’s unfinished final novel, director Raoul Peck creates a meditation on what it means to be Black in the United States.
I Am Not Your Negro (2016)
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Released Year: 2017
Runtime: 95 minutes
Genre: Documentary
Directors: Raoul Peck
Writers: James Baldwin, Raoul Peck
Casts: Samuel L. Jackson, Harry Belafonte, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Ray Charles, James Baldwin, Medgar Evers, Shumerria Harris, Cathy Salvodon
Storyline
Working from the text of James Baldwin’s unfinished final novel, director Raoul Peck creates a meditation on what it means to be Black in the United States.
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Reviews
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The Guardian -
It is a striking work of storytelling. By assembling the scattered images and historical clips suggested by Baldwin’s writing, I Am Not Your Negro is a cinematic séance, and one of the best movies about the civil rights era ever made.
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Variety -
Raoul Peck’s I Am Not Your Negro is the rare movie that might be called a spiritual documentary.
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Village Voice -
Readers of Baldwin’s work already know that it’s as timely and relevant today as it was when he wrote it decades ago. I Am Not Your Negro powerfully highlights this point for today.
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Time Out -
Masterfully addressing the American racial divide, past and present, director Raoul Peck’s six-years-in-the-making documentary, I Am Not Your Negro, is a galvanizing, ominous film, thrumming with a sense of history repeating itself.
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Los Angeles Times -
What makes I Am Not Your Negro a mesmerizing cinematic experience, smart, thoughtful and disturbing, goes well beyond words.
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Working from the text of James Baldwin’s unfinished final novel, director Raoul Peck creates a meditation on what it means to be Black in the United States.
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Working from the text of James Baldwin’s unfinished final novel, director Raoul Peck creates a meditation on what it means to be Black in the United States.