I Heard It Through the Grapevine

Showings

Nightlight Cinema Sat, May 18 2:00 PM
Nightlight Cinema Sat, May 18 7:00 PM
Nightlight Cinema Sun, May 19 4:00 PM
Nightlight Cinema Thu, May 23 6:45 PM
Film Info
Release Year:1982
Genre:Documentary
Production Country:USA
Original Language:English
Cast/Crew Info
Director:Dick Fontaine
Pat Hartley
Cast:James Baldwin
David Baldwin
Amiri Baraka
Sterling Brown
David Dennis
Screenwriter:James Baldwin
Social Media
Website:https://filmforum.org/film/i-heard-it-through-the-grapevine-baldwin

Description

Renowned Black writer James Baldwin retraces his time in the South during the Civil Rights Movement, reflecting with his trademark brilliance and insight on the passage of more than two decades. From Selma and Birmingham and Atlanta; to the battleground beaches of St. Augustine, Florida, with Chinua Achebe; and back north for a visit to Newark with Amiri Baraka, Baldwin lays bare the fiction of progress in post–Civil Rights America, wondering “what happened to the children” and those 'who did not die, but whose lives were smashed on Freedom Road'. 1h32.