A 50th Anniversary Celebration, April 24th-30th at 7:30pm NOTHING BUT A MAN Directed by Michael Roemer. Photographer by Robert Young. Written by Michael Roemer and Robert Young. A conversation between director Michael Roemer and writer Kevin Powell will follow the 7:30pm screening on Friday, April 25th. A Q&A with director Michael Roemer and filmmaker Albert Maysles will follow the 7:30pm screening on Saturday, April 26th. Following the 7:30pm screening on Monday, April 28th there will be a Q&A with writer and cultural activist Kazembe Balagun of the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung-New York Office. The Maysles Cinema, a theater devoted to documentary film, is proud to present a week-long theatrical run of Nothing But a Man in honor of the 50th anniversary of the release of this classic fiction vérité cinema gem. Director Michael Roemer and activist and writer Kevin Powell will participate in a post-film Q&A on Friday, April 25th and the Q&A on Saturday, April 26th will include director Michael Roemer and filmmaker Albert Maysles. On Monday, April 28th writer and cultural activist Kazembe Balagun will lead an audience discussion. A true landmark of American cinema and African-American screen representation, Nothing But a Man portrays the poignant relationship between a preachers daughter (jazz singer Abbey Lincoln) and a railroad man and single dad (Ivan Dixon). After the two marry, they confront a host of problems including racism, school integration, unemployment, and family conflict. Against this detailed social backdrop (which is a powerful document of Jim Crow-era restrictions), the film portrays Duff and Josie as fully-fleshed out individuals, complex and contradictory, in a way rare for movies about black characters at the time. Shot during the tumultuous summer of 1963-the summer of Medgar Evers assassination, George Wallace at the University of Alabama, and the March on Washington, the film features an unparalleled, Motown based soundtrack that includes Martha & the Vandellas, Stevie Wonder, Mary Wells and the Miracles. Nothing But a Man is fiction Cinema Vérité gold. Named to the National Film Registry in 1993, Nothing But a Man was re-released in 2013 by Artists Public Domain/Cinema Conservancy. Order tickets: brownpapertickets/event/629504 Nothing But a Man Directed by Michael Roemer. Photographer by Robert Young. Written by Michael Roemer and Robert Young.1964, 95 mins. Its so rare for a film to both be so excellent and ahead of its time which makes it just as valuable today as it was 50 years ago. Its a subject well covered only when this film is included. - Albert Maysles Nothing But a Man...is one of the most sensitive films about black life ever made in this country. - Hal Hinson, The Washington Post One of the great American independent films. - Amy Taubin, Artforum Nothing But a Man changed my life. By that I mean this beautiful film opened my head up, introduced me in a shattering way to the notion of race, drove me to James Baldwin, Soul on Ice, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, thus birthing a whole new world-view for me. - Jonathan Demme
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