I am not your Negro

The ‘Independent Cinema Office’ eloquently summarises it as follows;

‘Narrated by Samuel L. Jackson and with unprecedented access to author and public intellectual James Baldwin’s original work, award-winning filmmaker Raoul Peck (Murder in Pacot, Moloch Tropical, Lumumba), has completed the cinematic version of the book Baldwin never wrote.

In 1979 when literary agent Jay Acton asked Baldwin to write about the lives and assassinations of his friends Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and Medgar Evers, he responded with a 30-page letter explaining why he couldn’t. This manuscript, entitled Notes Toward Remember This House, was entrusted to Peck by the writer’s estate and serves as the backbone of the film. Alongside an exploration of these key Civil Rights figures, Peck also gives us a fascinat- ing picture of Baldwin himself while uncovering the deeper narrative of America’s troubled relationship with race.

In a form as radical as the man that inspired it, Baldwin’s words are juxtaposed with interviews, music, archive foot- age and images of present-day America to create an overwhelmingly powerful, essayistic mosaic that lays bare the persistent violence and systemic inequality suffered by America’s black population.

“One of the best movies about the civil rights era ever made” ***** Guardian ‘

@Bucks New University
Sunday 16th October,
2.00pm -4.30pm
@Bucks New University
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Burning an Illusion

Tuesday 18th October
@Bucks New University
8.00pm – 9.45pm
Written and directed by Menelik Shabazz, Burning an Illusion is a 1981 ground-breaking British film about a young British-born black woman’s love life, mostly shot in London’s Notting Hill and Ladbroke Grove communities. Classification 15

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Hidden Figures

Thursday 19th October,
8.00pm @ the Empire Cinema
Eden Shopping Centre,
Abbey Way
High Wycombe
Released in the UK earlier this year, Theodore Melfi’s story is of a team of female African-American mathematicians who served a vital role in NASA during the early years of the U.S. space program.

SCREENING AT EMPIRE CINEMA £9.00