His novel “1984” captured the tactics of totalitarianism back in 1949. A startling new documentary from Raoul Peck looks at Orwell’s life.
Category: Peck, Raoul
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‘Ernest Cole: Lost and Found’ Review: Chronicling Apartheid and Beyond
Raoul Peck looks at the compelling South African photographer, who died in 1990, whose work gets a second life onscreen.
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‘Lumumba: Death of a Prophet’: Revisiting a Mythic Figure
The 1990 documentary about Patrice Lumumba by Raoul Peck (“I Am Not Your Negro”), showing at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, looks and feels newly minted.
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‘Silver Dollar Road’ Review: Black Land Loss Is Still Happening
The 20th century saw a mass dispossession of Black farmers. This intimate documentary focuses on one family’s recent battle to keep their home in North Carolina.