Uptight
Jules Dassin / US, 1968 / 104 min.
The American filmmaker Jules Dassin was getting on for sixty when he made what is perhaps the most radical film of his directorial career. A film that opens with footage of the funeral of the assassinated Martin Luther King and morphs into a raw urban drama revolving around a Black Panther-like militant group.
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Director
Jules Dassin
Production year
1968
Country
US
Original title
Uptight
Length
104 min.
Language
English
Part of
Black Light
Black Light highlights the representation of black identity in films, from 1920 to the present.
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