Meeting the Man (Short 1970)

Meeting the Man: Directed by Terence Dixon. With James Baldwin. A documentary portrait of James Baldwin, one of the towering figures of 20th-century American literature, Black culture and political thought, filmed in Paris. The iconic writer is captured in several symbolic locations in the city, where he was living at the time, including the Place de la Bastille

“I canu0026#39;t stand when someone tries to be abstract and downright absurd so others can say u0026quot;Woah man, so deepu0026quot;.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eI wanted to see 1970 Paris, and hoping someone would say something with clarity, instead of the jive-talkinu0026#39;.. Iu0026#39;ve downloaded a few of his books, but after seeing him fool around and just being a primadona, I have no interest in spending hours with 1/100th of the content, of things I already know and experienced myself without being a jerk.”