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7 October 2011 4:05 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

Danny Glover's new documentary, The Black Power Mixtape 1967-75, profiles the Black Panthers. 'I'm a child of the civil rights movement,' he says

"I think we have to be really observant as consumers," says Danny Glover. "The people we want to be can be reflected in our cultural art, and we can give value to that. We can do that. It can be entertainment – there's nothing wrong with that – but it can be enlightening as well. There is a choice."

He pauses: "Just look at what kind of films are being produced now, and what the film industry is attempting to do, and it seems like it's reverted back to some kind of past vision of the status quo. Look at the films. You see what movies get made, and what movies don't get made. You see what technology has done, and how they're using it in the »

- Damon Wise

30 September 2011 4:26 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »

The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975

Director: Göran Hugo Olsson

In English and Swedish with English subtitles

The luxuriant afro and towering intellect of Angela Davis loom large over The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975, a powerful documentary about a turbulent period in recent American history.

Working with footage shot by intrepid Swedish reporters, director Göran Hugo Olsson (Am I Black Enough for You) takes us back to an era when the idea of a black President in the White House was unthinkable. While mainstream America was under the questionable leadership of Johnson and Nixon, figures like Stokely Carmichael, Bobby Seale and Martin Luther King brought their influence to bear on the black population.

Beginning in the apparently peaceful town of Hallandale, Florida, this film criss-crosses America to pinpoint scenes of confrontation from La to New York. The Us may have been at war in Vietnam, but bitter struggles were also being »

- Susannah

9 August 2011 9:46 AM, PDT | GeekTyrant | See recent GeekTyrant news »

With a hot button issue like the civil rights movement in Mississipi as the focal point, you would think that The Help would run on the preachy side of the argument. It doesn’t preach, and it doesn’t rehash the same stories and figures we’ve seen a million times before. Instead, the product is actually a lovely look a the unsung heroes of the movement - the average women just trying to live their lives through the worst of it.

The film takes a lighter hand to the civil rights unrest than usual by focusing on a small group of ladies in the heart of Mississippi and how it affects their every day lives, instead of on the larger figures that take part. It’s not through marching or protesting, but rather though the seemingly innocent act of telling their stories as “the help” in these white households that they achieve notable change. »

- Kristal Bailey

6 April 2011 9:00 AM, PDT | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »

The Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975 is a fine example of a documentary that blends the past and present, using the visual medium of film as a “mixtape” to collect images of the Black Power movement of the 1960s and 1970s while being entirely narrated from new and archived interviews with activists such as Angela Davis, Stokely Carmichael, and Kathleen Cleaver, and musicians such as Erykah Badu, Talib Kweli, and Questlove. The film’s footage was filmed by Swedish filmmakers who made documentary segments for Swedish television of the black power movement, and chronicling how a cycle of poverty, structural racism, and the need for equality using intellectual thought was pertinent during these years. These issues were spearheaded by the Black Panthers who, contrary to popular belief, were not advocating for violence but for education and reform in the black community. The film was directed by Göran Hugo Olsson, who had »

7 March 2011 1:16 AM, PST | digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news »

Lupe Fiasco has claimed that his new album is inspired by the Black Panthers. The 'Show Goes On' star told Metro that Lasers took a lead from the 1966 declaration from the revolutionary African-American organisation founded by Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton. Fiasco said: "My starting point was a 14-point manifesto, based on the Black Panthers' manifesto, with different ideals like 'we will not compromise who we are to be accepted by the crowd' and 'we want a universal and meaningful education system'. "I used that as the premise for this album; I wanted it to be more open and popular, about issues that everyone could relate to. One of the first things we did was film people reciting (more) »

- By Mayer Nissim

26 January 2011 8:28 AM, PST | EW - Inside Movies | See recent EW.com - Inside Movies news »

In the ’80s, the movies that revolutionized American independent film, changing it from something earnest into something hot-blooded and knowing, were modern freakazoid noirs like Blood Simple and Blue Velvet, drenched in sex and violence and tantalizing dread. These days, the subject matter that has the equivalent effect is high finance. Money, and the corruption of money, is the new, sophisticated content porn of the indie world. More than ever, we’re all obsessed with the lure and the false promise of money, and with how so much of it went poof! over the last three years. The cautionary dawn-of-the-economic-crisis »

- Owen Gleiberman

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