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Footage shot by a group of Swedish journalists documenting the Black Power Movement in the United States is edited together by a contemporary Swedish filmmaker.
Leave your thoughts about The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975.
| Boston GlobeWesley MorrisIt's an imperfect but ambitious film willing to confront an enormous, complex period in this country. |
| The A.V. ClubNoel MurrayIllustrates how the rhetoric of civil rights changed after the breakthroughs of Martin Luther King. With the world's media finally paying attention, critical thinkers like Carmichael, Davis, and Malcolm X were able to push back against the fretful questions about violence, and redefine the story of blacks in America over the centuries as one defined by violence. |
| San Francisco ChronicleDavid LewisSometimes the film, even if it's a "mixtape," bites off more than it can chew, delving into the Attica Prison uprising, heroin addiction and the Vietnam War. But all in all, this film will give you a new perspective on the past - and the present. |
| Portland OregonianShawn LevyIt may not add up to a narrative, but it's a fascinating compilation -- a mixtape you may want to hear more than once. |
| Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovIt plays very much like it advertises itself: a mixtape – Fear of a Black Planet, then and now. |
| Time OutJoshua RothkopfThe pieces here are wonderful, even if the documentary fails to make any kind of overall analytical point. |
| Village VoiceJ. HobermanBlack nationalism lives and breathes in this remarkably fresh documentary - a standout in last spring's New Directors/New Films - assembled by Göran Hugo Olsson. |
| Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanA tangy raw stew of history, even if it never begins to confront the contradictions that bedeviled black militancy. |
| VarietyAndrew BarkerLike any mixtape, it offers some truly transcendent moments alongside a smattering of filler, and never quite assembles its pieces into a cohesive whole. |
| The Hollywood ReporterJames GreenbergThis is a film that should be seen by anyone who wants to learn where we've come from as a nation. |