I am Not Your Negro
A thrilling documentary. Brilliantly edited...moves across time and space, seamlessly — insistently.
-- Manohla Dargis, New York Times
I am Not Your Negro
In his new film, 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.
“A THRILLING DOCUMENTARY. Brilliantly edited, I Am Not Your Negro moves across time and space, seamlessly — insistently — sliding from the historical civil rights movement to more recent events. Mr. Peck is a consummate filmmaker who deserves a larger American audience. He’ll get it when I Am Not Your Negro opens.” – Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
“A THRILLING DOCUMENTARY. Brilliantly edited, I Am Not Your Negro moves across time and space, seamlessly — insistently — sliding from the historical civil rights movement to more recent events. Mr. Peck is a consummate filmmaker who deserves a larger American audience. He’ll get it when I Am Not Your Negro opens.” – Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
Genre
Documentary,
African-American Experience,
Politics
Runtime
93
Language
English
Director
Raoul Peck
Producer
Raoul Peck,
Remi Grellety,
Hebert Peck
Awards:
Winner, Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film, Los Angeles Film Critics Association
Nominee, Best Documentary, Spirit Awards
Nominee, Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary, Directors Guild of America
Nominee, Best Documentary Feature, Academy Awards
MOREFEATURED REVIEW
Alonso Duralde, The Wrap
To review Raoul Peck’s “I Am Not Your Negro” feels, in many ways, like gilding the lily: Every word we hear in this Oscar-nominated documentary comes from the great novelist and essayist James Baldwin, and his prose remains so vital, so beautiful, so brutal in the 21st century that there seems ...
Played at
Playhouse 7 2.10.17 - 4.02.17
NoHo 7 2.10.17 - 3.02.17
Claremont 5 2.17.17 - 3.05.17
Monica Film Center 2.17.17 - 3.16.17
Town Center 5 3.03.17 - 3.16.17
Lumiere Music Hall 3.17.17 - 5.04.17
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