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Nov 11, 2013 · A Tale Twice Told: Comparing 12 Years a Slave to 1984’s TV Movie Solomon Northup’s Odyssey. By Bilge Ebiri, a film critic for New York and Vulture. Photo: Past America, Inc; Fox Searchlight ...
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PBS. Release. December 10, 1984. ( 1984-12-10) Solomon Northup's Odyssey, reissued as Half Slave, Half Free, is a 1984 American television film based on the 1853 autobiography Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup, a free black man who in 1841 was kidnapped and sold into slavery. [1] The film, which aired on PBS, was directed by Gordon Parks ...
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12 Years a Slave is a 2013 biographical drama film directed by Steve McQueen from a screenplay by John Ridley, based on the 1853 slave memoir Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup, an African American man who was kidnapped in Washington, D.C. by two conmen in 1841 and sold into slavery. He was put to work on plantations in the state of ...
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- Hans Zimmer
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Nov 8, 2013 · 12 Years a Slave: Directed by Steve McQueen. With Chiwetel Ejiofor, Dwight Henry, Dickie Gravois, Bryan Batt. In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free Black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.
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In December 1984, the made-for-television film Solomon Northup’s Odyssey appeared on public television.Based on Northup’s 1853 narrative Twelve Years a Slave and funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities, it was directed and scored by the legendary Gordon Parks and featured Avery Brooks in the lead role of Solomon Northup.
making it the most celebrated of the movies on an African American subject. 12 Years a Slave is actually a remake of Gordon Park’s 1984 TV movie Solomon Northup’s Odyssey, and it joins others on U.S. slavery, including Haile Gerima’s bril-liant 1993 Sankofa; Stan Lathan’s A House Divided: Denmark Vesey’s Rebellion
Jan 20, 2021 Full Review J. Hoberman Harper's Magazine 12 Years a Slave is, like The Trial, a trapdoor over the abyss. Although less abrupt than Kafka's novel, the movie wastes little time before ...
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