Podcast #2 – 'Free Angela and All Political Prisoners' and Fiction Remakes: Libsyn Player
This week we review Shola Lynch‘s new film, Free Angela and All Political Prisoners, and its “historical vérité” approach to biographical documentary. Then, inspired by Lynch’s own thoughts about making the story of Angela Davis into a biopic, we discuss fiction adaptations of documentaries. Do they help documentaries find an audience, or are they too often simply blander, inaccurate versions of the original? Finally, we take a moment to remember Roger Ebert’s championing of documentary film over the years, and recommend some of his favorites and ours.
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- Intro: 00:00–1:39
- Free Angela and All Political Prisoners: 1:40–24:03
- Remaking Documentaries as Fiction Films: 24:05–45:43
- Rogert Ebert and Weekly Doc Recommendations: 46:01–58:20
Links!
- Follow Free Angela and All Political Prisoners on Facebook for more info about screenings
- Max Roach performing Triptych with Abbey Lincoln on YouTube
- Read Chris’s interview with director Shola Lynch here
- Roger Ebert’s blog post on Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
Watch the Docs:
- Hoop Dreams on Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Instant
- Gates of Heaven on Hulu
- Happy People: A Year in the Taiga DVD on Netflix
- Where to find Eugene Jarecki’s The House I Live In
- The Black Power Mixtape 1967–1975 on Netflix
- Kon-Tiki on Amazon Instant Prime and Hulu
- Party Monster: The Shockumentary on iTunes