Writer James Baldwin tells the story of race in modern America with his unfinished novel, Remember This House.Writer James Baldwin tells the story of race in modern America with his unfinished novel, Remember This House.Writer James Baldwin tells the story of race in modern America with his unfinished novel, Remember This House.Writer James Baldwin tells the story of race in modern America with his unfinished novel, Remember This House.Writer James Baldwin tells the story of race in modern America with his unfinished novel, Remember This House.
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James Baldwin
- Selfas Self
- (archive footage)
Martin Luther King
- Selfas Self
- (archive footage)
Malcolm X
- Selfas Self
- (archive footage)
Medgar Evers
- Selfas Self
- (archive footage)
Robert F. Kennedy
- Selfas Self
- (archive footage)
Harry Belafonte
- Selfas Self
- (archive footage)
Paul Weiss
- Selfas Self
- (archive footage)
Dick Cavett
- Selfas Self
- (archive footage)
H. Rap Brown
- Self - Black Panther Partyas Self - Black Panther Party
- (archive footage)
Bob Dylan
- Selfas Self
- (archive footage)
Sidney Poitier
- Various Rolesas Various Roles
- (archive footage)
Ray Charles
- Selfas Self
- (archive footage)
Doris Day
- Various Rolesas Various Roles
- (archive footage)
Gary Cooper
- Frank Flannaganas Frank Flannagan
- (archive footage)
Tony Curtis
- John 'Joker' Jacksonas John 'Joker' Jackson
- (archive footage)
In 1979, James Baldwin wrote a letter to his literary agent describing his next project, "Remember This House." The book was to be a revolutionary, personal account of the lives and assassinations of three of his close friends: Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. At the time of Baldwin's death in 1987, he left behind only 30 completed pages of this manuscript. Filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished. —Jwelch5742
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history is not the past, it is the present
There is so much to say about this film, too much that i cannot seem to wrap my head around it.
the images, the lines, the archival material, everything makes sense, how painful that may be. it has been an honour to see Baldwin talk, to notice his beautiful phrases and his loving and strong personality.
His words make this documentary another experience, it allows for admitting of mistakes and failures. it stops denial, he hands us the realisation that this issue does not go beyond us, it defines us.
'we carry our past everywhere we go' 'not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced'
#blacklivesmatter
the images, the lines, the archival material, everything makes sense, how painful that may be. it has been an honour to see Baldwin talk, to notice his beautiful phrases and his loving and strong personality.
His words make this documentary another experience, it allows for admitting of mistakes and failures. it stops denial, he hands us the realisation that this issue does not go beyond us, it defines us.
'we carry our past everywhere we go' 'not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced'
#blacklivesmatter
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- sienchristiaanse
- May 31, 2020
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