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I Heard It Through the Grapevine

Tue, Aug 20, 2024
    Part of
  • Cinema, Restored
  • and
  • BAM Film 2024
Directed by Dick Fontaine & Pat Hartley (1982)

“It was 1957 when I left Paris for Little Rock. It is 1980, and what has happened to all those people—children—I knew then? And what has happened to this country?” James Baldwin traverses the American South in this stunning documentary examining the specters of Jim Crow, 15 years after the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Featuring in-depth conversations between Baldwin and prominent Black figures Amiri Baraka, Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth, Chinua Achebe, and others, this biting documentary travelog, restored in vivid 4K, brilliantly charts the shape-shifting nature of racism in America.

UPCOMING Screenings

      RUNNING TIME

      92min

      VENUE

      BAM Strong
      Harvey Theater

      FORMAT

      DCP

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      Steinberg Screen at the Harvey Theater made possible by:

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      Mellon Foundation

      Leadership support for BAM Access Programs provided by the Jerome L. Greene Foundation

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      Altman Foundation

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