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Paul Robeson: Portraits of the Artist

Criterion  /  Year: 1933-1979

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UPC: 715515021722

Catalog #: DV2406802

Languages: English Dolby Digital 1.0 (Primary)

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All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson (1898-1976) was a towering figure and a trailblazer many times over. He was perhaps most groundbreaking, however, in the medium of film. The son of an escaped slave, Robeson managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America, headlining everything from fellow pioneer Oscar Micheaux's silent drama Body and Soul to British studio showcases to socially engaged documentaries, always striving to project positive images of black characters. Increasingly politically minded, Robeson eventually left movies behind, using his international celebrity to speak for those denied their civil liberties around the world and ultimately becoming a victim of ideological persecution himself. But his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African American.

  • DISC ONE - ICON: The Emperor Jones (1933), Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist (1979)
  • DISC TWO - OUTSIDER: Body and Soul (1925), Borderline (1930)
  • DISC THREE - PIONEER: Sanders of the River (1935), Jericho (1937)
  • DISC FOUR - CITIZEN OF THE WORLD: The Proud Valley (1940), Native Land (1942)

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DVD : $89.99  (Criterion Collection 4-disc set)

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  • Close Caption:  No
  • Region Code:  None
  • UPC: 715515021722
  • Catalog #: DV2406802

    • Studio :  Criterion

  • Languages:  English Dolby Digital 1.0 (Primary)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.33
  • Features:
  • Booklet: A book featuring an excerpt from Paul Robeson's Here I Stand, new essays by Clement Alexander Price, Hilton Als, Charles Burnett, Ian Christie, Deborah Willis, and Charles Musser, and a reprinted article by Harlem Renaissance writer Geraldyn Dismond
  • Documentaries: Four new video programs featuring interviews with actors Ruby Dee and James Earl Jones, filmmaker William Greaves, cinematographer Tom Hurwitz, film historians Ian Christie and Stephen Bourne, and Paul Robeson Jr., and including film clips from Song of Freedom (1936), King Solomon's Mines (1937), and Big Fella (1938).
  • Audio commentary: Audio commentaries by historians Jeffrey C. Stewart (,i>The Emperor Jones) and Pearl Bowser (Body and Soul)
  • Interview(s): 1958 Pacifica Radio interview with Paul Robeson
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Paul Robeson: Portraits of the Artist

Rating: Not Rated

Cast:  Paul Robeson, Dudley Digges, Edward Chapman, Leslie Banks, Simon Lack, Rachel Thomas, Edward Rigby

Director:  Dudley Murphy, Oscar Micheaux, Pen Tennyson, Thornton Freeland, Zoltan Korda

Country:  US

Year: 1933-1979

A.K.A.: The Emperor Jones, Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist, Body and Soul, Borderline, Sanders of the River, Jericho, The Proud Valley, The Native Land

Studio :  Criterion