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Broken into nine chapters -- one for each year -- the documentary isn't a rigorous work but a felt piece of vital, if flawed, art.
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 is not your standard documentary dealing with racism in America.
A film that suffers from a surfeit of credulity.
You watch the material here and wonder whether most of the movies made about black people are meant to pacify general audiences, to distract them from demanding more of the movies.
It is mostly impressionistic - but, wow, some of those impressions really pack a punch.
This chronicle of pride and social upheaval is filled with vintage images and important voices.
What is most impressive about the film is that it manages to put human faces -- not just caricatures -- on the key figures of the movement.
It's thrilling to hear from unrepentant revolutionaries such as Angela Davis and amusing to hear from their bell-bottomed white lawyers.
It may not add up to a narrative, but it's a fascinating compilation -- a mixtape you may want to hear more than once.
"Mixtape" is about a foreign country. And the foreign country is ours.
Impressively made documentary that paints a fascinating portrait of an important period in American history, not least because the perspective stands in stark contrast to the American media's coverage of the same events at the time.
This fascinating documentary brings together material shot by Swedish documentarists and TV journalists dealing with the African American civil rights movement...
The timing of this release is more than perfect. And the story behind the film is nearly as interesting as the stories it tells.
It is not a comprehensive history but the footage is an extraordinarily potent reminder that the stand taken by black people eventually bore fruit.
Interesting stuff, though it sometimes looks like a block of unedited raw material.
Blazing interviews with Angela Davis and Stokely Carmichael supply stinging and unforgettable rhetoric: it simply can't fail with footage this wild.
Like the era it represents, there are highs and lows.
Like most mix-tapes, offers crackling content even when its contexts aren't clear.
The film is testament to the power of archival legwork in documentary-filmmaking.
While it assumes a fair bit of knowledge of the social changes exploding in sixties America, there's a wealth of fascinating material and punchy insights into an earth shaking movement.
It's a dizzying mess of perspectives and lacks a firm head on its shoulders, but history buffs will find this assembly of footage - largely unseen outside of Sweden - to be riveting and important.
From the fly-on-the-wall, cin?ma-v?rit? style of the '60s to a more aggressive, advocacy approach in the mid-'70s, "Mixtape" is a wide slice of nonfiction film history.
These are the men and women Richard Nixon, J. Edgar Hoover, and the networks didn't want us to know about.
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