James Baldwin
Date of Birth: 02 Aug 1924
Country: USA
Biography: Was an American novelist, writer, playwright, poet, essayist, and civil rights activist. Most of Baldwin's work deals with racial and sexual issues in the mid-20th century United States. Novels are notable for the personal way they explored questions of identity as well as for the way they mined complex social and psychological pressures related to being black and homosexual well before the social, cultural or political equality of these groups could be assumed. Died Dec' 01, 1987.
Total Credits at Criticker: 8 (Actor), 5 (Writer)
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The Statue of Liberty (1985) - TV Movie
Documentary showing the history of the world-famous Statue of Liberty in New York harbor. (imdb)
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America's leading journal of ideas for over 50 years. Provocative, idiosyncratic and incendiary, the film weaves rarely seen archival material, contributor interviews, excerpts from writings. Confrontation and original argument are in the Review's DNA. Co-produced with the BBC's award-winning Arena and shaped by Scorcese's vivid filmmaking style, The Fifty Year Argument captures the power of ideas in influencing history. (sheffdocfest.com)
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Documentary of a lecture by eminent American author and political commentator James Baldwin, accompanied by comedian and author Dick Gregory. (screenonline.org.uk)
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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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Patience and Shuffle the Cards (1998) - Direct-to-Video
Presenting collections of art made by homeless people and an historic speech by James Baldwin.
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The James Baldwin Anthology (2008) - Direct-to-Video
Consists of Baldwin's historic speech at UC Berkeley in 1979, his answers in a dialog with Malcom X in the 60's, and a series of original mixed media images done by Claire Burch as a memorial after his death in 1987. Following this material is an interview with the late Professor Erskine Peters who was host to Baldwin at this time, and a session at Cody's Bookstore in Berkeley, California where David Lemming is reading from his biography of Baldwin.
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Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris (1970) - Short Film
A documentary portrait of James Baldwin, one of the towering figures of 20th-century American literature, Black culture and political thought, filmed in Paris. The iconic writer is captured in several symbolic locations in the city, where he was living at the time, including the Place de la Bastille
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