I Heard It Through the Grapevine (film)

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I Heard It Through the Grapevine
Directed by Dick Fontaine
Pat Hartley
Starring James Baldwin
Chinua Achebe
Amiri Baraka
Lonnie C. King Jr.
Hosea Williams
Cinematography Ivan Strasburg
Edited by Julian Ware
Release date
  • 1982 (1982)
Running time
95 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

I Heard It Through the Grapevine is a 1982 documentary film starring James Baldwin and directed by Dick Fontaine and Pat Hartley. [1] [2] [3] [4]

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Overview

Documentary film that features writer James Baldwin revisiting his time in the American South during the civil rights movement.

Critical reception

The New Yorker said in its review, "“Grapevine” is a work of political history about the civil-rights movement—and about the ongoing failure of the United States to make good on the promise of justice and equality for Black Americans." [5]

The New York Times wrote, "I Heard It Through the Grapevine, a free-form, feature-length documentary that hovers over its subject like a concerned parent who, not knowing quite what to make of things, expresses concern and sympathy." [2]

References

  1. ↑ "I Heard It Through the Grapevine with James Baldwin". Harvard Film Archive. October 16, 2023.
  2. 1 2 Canby, Vincent (3 March 1982). "Film: Revisting Civil Rights South". The New York Times . p. 23.
  3. ↑ Remnick, David (June 29, 1982). "Well-Spoken 'Grapevine'". The Washington Post .
  4. ↑ "I Heard It Through the Grapevine". bam.org. Brooklyn Academy of Music. August 20, 2024.
  5. ↑ Brody, Richard (January 16, 2024). "James Baldwin's Anguished Prescience in "I Heard It Through the Grapevine"". The New Yorker .


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