Peck has crafted a cinematic experience to both savour and learn from.
I Am Not Your Negro is a riveting, thought-provoking work, and would make a devastating double-bill with its fellow 2017 Oscar-nominee Ava DuVernay's 13th.
Peck’s film may have been an Oscars bridesmaid but it turns Baldwin’s prescient words into a staggering achievement. It’s an exhilarating blast of focused fury.
I Am Not Your Negro isn't as pessimistic as its downbeat tone suggests it should be. Baldwin's commentary is intended to provoke, not to induce despair.
An astonishing piece of filmmaking: engrossing, intellectually rigorous – and depressingly timely.
I Am Not Your Negro was an Oscar contender back in February and is one of the most thought-provoking documentaries you will see this year.
Raoul Peck dramatises the author’s memoir of Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr and Medgar Evers, in this vivid and vital documentary.
The civil-rights-era writer’s words are brought to life by Samuel L Jackson in a primer on the writer’s work.
Cameo, Edinburgh from Friday April 21, 2017, until Thursday April 27, 2017. More info: http://www.picturehouses.co.uk/