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I Am Not Your Negro
2016
Documentary
1h 33m
Director Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished - a radical narration about race in America, using the writer's original words. He draws upon James Baldwin's notes on the lives and assassinations of Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King Jr to explore and bring a fresh and radical perspective to the current racial narrative in America. (Magnolia Pictures)
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Raoul PeckI Am Not Your Negro
2016
Documentary
1h 33m
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Rated 03 May 2017
90
92nd
Every time I see footage of white people all losing their minds because a black child wanted to go to a proper school I sink so hard into my chair that my white ass time travels back to their time and farts in one of those racist idiots mouths. Watch the footage, you'll see someone suddenly have a real sour look in their face. That ain't hate, it's doodoo baby. (Racism makes me uncomfortable)
Rated 03 May 2017
Rated 11 May 2017
6
35th
MIKE WALLACE: How are we going to get rid of racism until...? - MORGAN FREEMAN: Stop talking about it!
Rated 11 May 2017
Rated 24 Jan 2018
35
44th
This apparently took ten years to make, and, frankly, it shows. Poorly organized, and with very amateurish editing.
Rated 24 Jan 2018
Rated 16 Jan 2018
75
64th
Baldwin's words still resonate today, and the doc does a great job of putting Baldwin speaking (well, Jackson does the speaking) over footage from today. This doc is a pretty good primer on race relations in the 20th/21st century in America.
Rated 16 Jan 2018
Rated 21 Jan 2021
100
97th
Remarkable documentary. I need to read Baldwin's works.
Rated 21 Jan 2021
Rated 16 Jun 2019
60
42nd
Baldwin would probably have been pleased that IANYN is so typically American. It's overly self-important and the author loves the sound of his own voice. The boring narration doesn't exactly help and i almost gave up on it halfway through. The film does have some interesting clips and insights but it's very shallow and you learn next to nothing about the people involved. But apparently it was controversial so i guess i underestimated how ignorant (white) Americans are about the subject.
Rated 16 Jun 2019
Rated 28 Feb 2019
76
72nd
Interesting and insightful.
Rated 28 Feb 2019
Rated 15 Jun 2018
82
83rd
As someone who didn't know much about James Baldwin, this was fascinating
Rated 15 Jun 2018
Rated 11 Mar 2018
79
80th
Baldwin's words have lost none of their impact or relevance. Peck's staging of them, in Jackson's voice, mostly get the job done. I guess I need to read more Baldwin.
Rated 11 Mar 2018
Rated 16 Jan 2018
20
12th
An unfocused, unfinished essay, told in a slooowly-spoken voiceover, interspersed with the occasional random movie clip. The only thing worth seeing is the actual interview clips of the author speaking himself. Those were interesting.
Rated 16 Jan 2018
Rated 06 Aug 2017
87
83rd
I am so grateful for Baldwin's voice and for this film, which gives that voice a platform. The movie is at its best when Baldwin himself is doing the talking (rather than Jackson reading from an unfinished manuscript). But the entire film remains a powerful call for justice as we seek to see one another, and to see one another as human beings.
Rated 06 Aug 2017
Rated 19 Apr 2017
96
85th
Essential viewing for all Americans. An examination of the terrifying, gaping hole at the heart of our culture.
Rated 19 Apr 2017
Rated 25 Feb 2017
74
71st
An amazing use of Baldwin's words and a fascinating, terrifying portrait of culture vs. pop culture, but overall a somewhat sloppily edited film.
Rated 25 Feb 2017
Rated 08 Jun 2024
70
54th
James Baldwin: "Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it has been faced."
Rated 08 Jun 2024
Rated 24 Mar 2024
85
23rd
James Baldwin is an important thinker without doubt but this film takes an unfinished book and turns it into a rambling and messy documentary. I think another filmmaker could do a better job with this subject matter.
Rated 24 Mar 2024
Rated 23 Oct 2023
70
70th
The text is James Baldwin's own, and it is effectively paired with archive material (including aptly placed newer footage) that match and expand upon it. Both the audio and the visuals speak for themselves; he is evidently articulate and captivating, and American history is doubtlessly full of tragedy and injustice - to this day. Samuel L. Jackson does a great job with the narration, however his recognizable voice and the fact that he doesn't sound at all like Baldwin are a little distracting.
Rated 23 Oct 2023
Rated 25 Feb 2022
70
70th
one of the last movies i watched with my father
Rated 25 Feb 2022
Rated 08 Jan 2022
79
80th
A very raw, real description of what is happening in the USA. The shots and the words are hearbreaking, infuriating and so important for everyone not personally experiencing this to understand. I wish for a better future, but I'm not sure when we'll get there.
Rated 08 Jan 2022
Rated 18 Dec 2021
98
84th
Se retrata de forma cruda un tema tan controversial como actual: el racismo. Se basan en las memorias así como en su obra The devil finds work. Un gran trabajo que emula el pensar de Baldwin.
Rated 18 Dec 2021
Rated 13 Sep 2021
66
39th
Works because Baldwin is timeless. But it is weirdly messy
Rated 13 Sep 2021
Rated 18 Jul 2021
1
8th
Rated 15 Mar 2021
80
63rd
Confuses abstract and poetic with insubstantial and facile at times; designed more as a compilation of ideas and provocative conversation starters than anything approaching a comprehensive text, which is not a bad thing, but is occasionally frustrating in the interesting ideas it throws up but doesn't properly explore (especially pertaining to "Old Hollywood"). Still well done for what it is, with Jackson's powerful and evocative narration adding a depth and resonance to the images on display.
Rated 15 Mar 2021
Rated 01 Jul 2020
68
55th
Baldwin has a sharp perspective and sure knows how to write. His appearance on the Dick Cavett show was particularly interesting.
Rated 01 Jul 2020
Rated 08 Jun 2020
87
81st
Could have been 15-20 minutes longer with more footage from the 80s and 90s to bridge Baldwin and the contemporary Black Lives Matter movement. Still, absolutely worth seeing.
Rated 08 Jun 2020
Rated 07 Jun 2020
100
99th
Bugün Amerika’da hâlâ Black Lives Matter (Siyahların Yaşamı Değerlidir) hareketiyle eşitlik mücadelesi devam ederken, 1963 yılında katıldığı bir televizyon programında Baldwin’e yöneltilen “bu ülkede zencilerin geleceğini nasıl görüyorsun?” sorusuna verdiği cevap geçerliliğini korumaya devam ediyor: “Bu ülkede zencilerin geleceği, kuşkusuz ülkenin geleceğiyle aynı oranda karanlık ya da aydınlıktır. Amerika’da zenci hikâyesi denilen şey Amerika’n
Rated 07 Jun 2020
Rated 13 May 2020
75
74th
After this movie, I wanted to watch more about the black struggle in the modern America or about the history of slavery in America. Yet, what I have found is unbelievably insufficient. Maybe the most cruel, most sorrowful thing in the history of earth has no adequate place in the film history. And that shows something, something about how the United States deals with this problem by forgetting, by devolarizing. I am aware that this movie has some shortcomings but at least it opened me a way of
Rated 13 May 2020
Rated 06 Dec 2019
75
54th
All over the place tonally, but shines a lot on some true ugliness.
Rated 06 Dec 2019
Rated 08 May 2018
6
43rd
Serious and fairly heavy history lesson that asks some soul searching questions.
Rated 08 May 2018
Rated 29 Mar 2018
4
72nd
Very good narration. Beautiful Prose Rewatch: Ending for motivation.
Rated 29 Mar 2018
Rated 12 Mar 2018
37
34th
Valuable for providing access to archival material about/from Baldwin. But, honestly, this is kind of a mess structurally: Baldwin's "Remember This House," a remembrance of martyr-heroes Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King Jr., provides a basic backbone, but Peck jumps randomly in & out of this narrative seemingly at random, & a lot of the connections to contemporary material are heavy-handed or facile. I just saw Handsworth Songs; I appreciated that a lot more after seeing this.
Rated 12 Mar 2018
Rated 05 Feb 2018
3
73rd
It's a slick enough thing and Baldwin was new to me, both he and the edit were too liberal for my tastes.
Rated 05 Feb 2018
Rated 04 Dec 2017
80
95th
Must see.
Rated 04 Dec 2017
Rated 25 Nov 2017
95
95th
Filme #2 da Semana da Consciência Negra. BluRayRip no MakingOff.
Rated 25 Nov 2017
Rated 04 Oct 2017
90
84th
Beautiful movie, but ignoring fucking James Baldwin sexuality and casting Samuel L. Jackson to voice him really was a choice.
Rated 04 Oct 2017
Rated 19 Sep 2017
78
96th
Movies or documentaries like these I always appreciate. It makes me aware of the freedom I do have, but most importantly it reminds me of how stupid people can be. I hope maybe someday the experiences of racisme are nothing more but stories of the past. 78/100.
Rated 19 Sep 2017
Rated 12 Jul 2017
72
83rd
A compelling introduction to a man I was entirely unware of.
Rated 12 Jul 2017
Rated 11 Jun 2017
84
80th
A rich semi-biographical documentary that curls together the tangled ribbons of the civil rights movement, Baldwin's legacy and personal experience, and modern racial politics with the same profound eloquence and strength of spirit that defined the man himself. It's a movie that understands the chaotic history of American race relations and the many angles from which it's been explored across generations, and with that knowledge, it offers a novel perspective, philosophical, blunt, and nuanced.
Rated 11 Jun 2017
Rated 02 Jun 2017
75
80th
Race politics formally conveyed as a literary essay. Baldwin's Remember This House appears fully combined both with historical footage from now and then (of the three leaders, their deaths, the riots, the police brutality, #BlackLivesMatter, televised debates) and scenes of black people being represented in Hollywood films. One powerful and crucial chronicle about the lie of the American Dream and a country built on sorrow and denial of black narrative.
Rated 02 Jun 2017
Rated 20 May 2017
55
26th
it's a good and interesting amount of videos, photos, interviews archives; it has some very organized and powerful moments, but there's also too much chaos, which dilutes reasonable part of its strenght.
Rated 20 May 2017
Rated 16 May 2017
80
87th
another good title for this would be: Hey, Doesn't This Look Familiar?
Rated 16 May 2017
Rated 03 May 2017
50
33rd
I'm sure this is brilliant but right now it's not for me. I tell you what I loved James Baldwin's unexpected appearance on Ken Burns' Statue of Liberty, that small appearance was wittier and sharper than this, sometimes the editor is king
Rated 03 May 2017
Rated 11 Feb 2017
80
37th
Viewed February 10, 2017.
Rated 11 Feb 2017
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