Paul Robeson: Portraits of the Artist

 

Year: 1925-1979

Time: 581 total min.

 

Series: The Criterion Collection

Edition #: 369

Release Date: Tuesday, 13 February 2007

MSRP: $99.95

 

4 Discs

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English Dolby Digital Mono 1.0

English Dolby Digital Mono 1.0

Musical Score Dolby Digital Stereo 2.0

Musical Score Dolby Digital Stereo 2.0

English Dolby Digital Mono 1.0

English Dolby Digital Mono 1.0

English Dolby Digital Mono 1.0

English Dolby Digital Mono 1.0

Subtitles: English

 

 Audio commentary for The Emperor Jones by historian Jeffrey C. Stewart   Our Paul: Remembering Paul Robeson, a new video program including interviews with filmmaker William Greaves and actors Ruby Dee and James Earl Jones   Robeson on Robeson, a new interview with Paul Robeson, Jr. about his father’s career and art   Audio commentary for Body and Soul by Oscar Micheaux historian Pearl Bowser   Musical scores by jazz recording artists and composers Wycliffe Gordon (Body and Soul) and Courtney Pine (Borderline)   True Pioneer: The British Films of Paul Robeson, a new video program featuring interviews with Paul Robeson, Jr. and film historians Stephen Bourne and Ian Christie, and including film clips from Song of Freedom (1936), King Solomon’s Mines (1937), and Big Fella (1937)   “The Story of Native Land,” a new video interview with cinematographer Tom Hurwitz, son of Frontier Films cofounder and Native Land codirector Leo Hurwitz   1958 Pacifica Radio interview with Paul Robeson (Courtesy of Pacifica Radio Archives)   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, a reprinted article by Harlem Renaissance writer Geraldyn Dismond, and a note from Pete Seeger