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USA/UK, 1982. Produced and directed by Dick Fontaine and Pat Hartley. Approx. 92 min. 4K DCP Restoration. “James Baldwin retraces his time in the South during the Civil Rights Movement with his trademark brilliance and insight on the passage of more than two decades.
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Ross McIndoe Slant Magazine I Heard It Through the Grapevine makes the political personal at every turn. Rated: 3.5/4 Jan 10, 2024 Full Review Dennis Harvey 48 Hills No wonder Baldwin’s purview ...
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All Audience. Verified Audience. Dennis Harvey 48 Hills. No wonder Baldwin’s purview, in recollection, observation and conversation alike, is sorrowful. Shot in 1980, Grapevine sees the battles ...
The Harvard Film Archive is proud to have played a central role in the restoration and rerelease of I Heard It Through the Grapevine, a monumental work that originally had a limited theatrical run at Film Forum and a PBS broadcast. Whereas in the 1980s the film represented a revisitation and reassessment of the civil rights movement, today ...
Jan 10, 2024 · Dick Fontaine and Pat Hartley’s documentary I Heard It Through the Grapevine follows James Baldwin on a journey across America as he recounts his experiences of the civil rights movement. He travels to Birmingham, where white supremacists exploded or planted roughly 50 bombs during the 1950s and ’60s, and to Selma, where Martin Luther King ...
Jan 11, 2024 · Film Forum has tied the re-release of “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” to a two-week retrospective of documentaries about Baldwin. Raoul Peck’s “I Am Not Your Negro,” which grapples with Baldwin’s writing about American film, was a substantial hit at the same theater seven years ago. Around this time in 2023, Film Forum presented ...
