On the trail of the civil rights movement: with typical astuteness and charisma, James Baldwin returns to key locations of protest in the American South and sees old injustices repeated in new legal frameworks.
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In Istanbul, American writer James Baldwin muses about race, the American fascination with sexuality, insights into his interrupted writing decade in the country, the generosity of the Turks, and how being in another country, in another place, forces one to re-examine well-established attitudes about modern society.
Richard Claxton "Dick" Gregory was born October 12, 1932 in St. Louis, Missouri and died in Los Angeles in July 2017. He was 84 years old. In 1961 Dick was the leading black stand up comedian in Chicago and when Hugh Hefner asked him to fill in for fellow comedian Professor Irwin Corey at the Playboy Club the rest is history especially Black American history. Prior to that even...
A story of violence and desire, of tenderness and compassion, so gripping and moving, which lays bare the trials and sufferings, the yearnings and aspirations of three generations of an African American family. The journey of a family from the rural South to "big city" Harlem seeking both salvation and understanding and of a young boy struggling to earn the approval of a self-r...
这部纪录片讲述的是弗兰·勒波维茨(Fran Lebowitz)的生平经历与思想。弗兰是著名美国作家,以发表辛辣讽刺的社会评论而闻名,早在2007年9月,她就出现在《名利场》杂志的国际最佳着装名人榜中。
This rare film document of one of the towering figures of 20th-century American literature—photographed by Jack Hazan (Rude Boy, A Bigger Splash)—captures the iconic writer in several symbolic locations, including the Place de la Bastille. As Hazan recounts: “Things don’t go to plan for him and the film crew when a couple of young Black Vietnam draft dodgers impose themselves o...
In 1960 Jane Jacobs’s book The Death and Life of Great American Cities sent shockwaves through the architecture and planning worlds, with its exploration of the consequences of modern planners’ and architects’ reconfiguration of cities. Jacobs was also an activist, who was involved in many fights in mid-century New York, to stop “master builder” Robert Moses from running roughs...
由塞缪尔·杰克逊献声、刻划美国黑人民权运动血泪史的《我不是你的黑鬼》,自推出后便崭露锋芒,不仅横扫数座国际影展最佳纪录片、观众票选奖,更强势入围奥斯卡最佳纪录长片,荣获BBC严选2017十大必看佳片,高踞美国各大传媒年度推荐最佳影片。
本片改编自美国黑人作家詹姆斯·鲍德温未完遗作《记得这屋子》。作品忆及1960年代黑人民权运动过程和他的挚友—麦格艾佛斯、麦尔坎X和金恩博士三大精神领袖接连遭到暗杀的事件。这部作品尚未完成,詹姆斯·鲍德温就因胃癌逝世,遗下的手稿来到海地导演哈乌·佩克手中,成就了这部见证美国黑人民权运动最重要的光影篇章!
Netflix出品的纪录片,相信很多人喜欢女歌手Nina Sinmone,就像【爱在日落余晖时】里朱莉·德尔佩模仿的那种唱腔和标志性的舞台动作,她是一位优秀的爵士女伶,她还是一位人权斗士。
A documentary on the history and influence of the New York Review of Books.
On a 1963 visit to black sections of San Francisco ,talking to angry youth, James Baldwin demolishes the city's image as cosmopolitan and sophisticated and argues that the place is as segregated and as racist, deep down, as Birmingham.