So why must you always concentrate on colour, or religion, or this . There are other ways of connecting men. I tell you this. When i left this country in 1948, i left this country with one reason only, one reason. I might have gone to hong kong, i might have gone to timbuktu. I ended up on the streets of paris. There was a theory that nothing worse could happen to me there that had already happened to me here. You talk about making it as a writer about yourself. You have to be able then to turn all the intent with which you live, because once you turn on your back on this society, you may die. You can see it seems really, really urgent, really engaging, and its a terrific watch. Its brilliantly constructed. The montage work is fantastic. The way in which they mix news footage and television and films. There is a very coherent argument, which is about the sort of nature of america, which seems every bit as pertinent now as it did when this was sort of first envisaged. The thing that was
So why must you always concentrate on colour, or religion, or this . There are other ways of connecting men. I tell you this. When i left this country in 1948, i left this country with one reason only, one reason. I might have gone to hong kong, i might have gone to timbuktu. I ended up on the streets of paris. There was a theory that nothing worse could happen to me there that had already happened to me here. You talk about making it as a writer about yourself. You have to be able then to turn all the intent with which you live, because once you turn on your back on this society, you may die. You can see it seems really, really urgent, really engaging, and its a terrific watch. Its brilliantly constructed. The montage work is fantastic. The way in which they mix news footage and television and films. There is a very coherent argument, which is about the sort of nature of america, which seems every bit as pertinent now as it did when this was sort of first envisaged. The thing that was
The film review on bbc news. To take us through this weeks cinema releases, as ever, is mark kermode. Lovely to be with you. And you. Nice to see you. What do we have . This is a really, really good week. We have i am not your negro, which is an oscar nominated documentary about James Baldwin. We have raw, which is a real breathtaking debut feature byjulia ducournau. And a quiet passion, Terence Davies film about emily dickinson. And i am not your negro, billed as a documentary. Is it solidly a documentary, a funny genre . Well, basically what it is its based on an unfinished project that James Baldwin had started working on, to tell the story of america through the story of three men, medgar evers, malcom x and Martin Luther king. And so what you get is the film is narrated by samuel ljackson, and it mixes news footage, reportage, clips from movies, clips from Television Programmes and it puts together basically a narrative which tells the story in a way which is both polemical and al
Lovely to be with you. And you. Nice to see you. What do we have . This is a really, really good week. We have i am not your negro, which is an oscar nominated documentary about James Baldwin. We have raw, which is a real breathtaking debut feature. And a quiet passion, Terence Davies film about emily dickinson. And i am not your negro, billed as a documentary. Is it solidly a documentary, a funny genre . Well, basically what it is if its based on an unfinished project that James Baldwin had started working on, to tell the story of america through the story of three men, medgar evers, malcom x and Martin Luther king. And so what you get is the film is narrated by samuel ljackson, and it mixes news footage, reportage, clips from movies, clips from Television Programmes and it puts together basically a narrative which tells the story in a way which is both polemical and i think rather poetic. One of the outstanding features is some of the footage of baldwin himself, who comes across as a