Several Friends with Nothing But a Man
Several Friends with Nothing But a Man
Special guests: Conversation with director Charles Burnett and guest programmer and creator/curator of the Black Film Archive Maya Cade following Several Friends.
Several Friends
Charles Burnett’s first student film is a day-in-the-life story that captures the poetry and tenderness of the mundane among a group of Black friends from South Central LA. In this early work, Burnett paints a rich tapestry of Black life for which he is now famous.
Nothing But a Man
This sensitive and affecting portrait of Black life in America’s South offers a look into love and tenderness as necessary tools of survival. Concerning the soul and plight for the dignity of Duff Anderson (Ivan Dixon)—laborer, father, and husband—the film navigates how socioeconomic factors shape one person’s world and love. Co-starring Abbey Lincoln, Nothing But a Man is a work of poetry.
Nothing But a Man
DIRECTED BY: Michael Roemer. WRITTEN BY: Michael Roemer, Robert Young. WITH: Ivan Dixon, Abbey Lincoln, Gloria Foster, Julius Harris. 1964. 92 min. USA. B&W. English. 35mm. Preserved by the Library of Congress.
Several Friends
DIRECTED BY: Charles Burnett. WRITTEN BY: Charles Burnett. WITH: Andy Burnett, Eugene Cherry, Charles Bracy, Cassandra Wright. 1969. 21 min. USA. B&W. English. 35mm. Preservation print courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive.
Academy Museum film programming generously funded by the Richard Roth Foundation.
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