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Elective Vicissitudes: The Radical Exiles of Jules Dassin (2023)

ALL 05/31/2023 (en) Documentary 18 Min
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    05/31/2023
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    Elective Vicissitudes: The Radical Exiles of Jules Dassin
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Overview

In 1968, filmmaker Jules Dassin collaborated with Ruby Dee and civil rights activist Julian Mayfield on Uptight, a "politically radical" film noir about Black revolution, framed against the April 4 assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Director, producer and co-writer Dassin, a blacklisted American exile, returns to his birth country after having gone into a second exile from his adopted country Greece, then makes a film that roiled the powers that be (or "powers that were") in the U.S. government. The material so upset the FBI that they closely monitored the production up until the eve of its premiere, recruiting crew members as moles. The irony is rich, as Uptight was a remake of John Ford's The Informer (1935) and dealt with a turncoat character who engineers the assassination of a revolutionary leader. How is Uptight both an outlier (or anomaly) as well as simultaneously integral to the career of Jules Dassin?

  1. Daniel Kremer

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Daniel Kremer

    Editor

  4. Producer



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  1. Daniel Kremer

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  2. Jules Dassin

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Elective Vicissitudes: The Radical Exiles of Jules Dassin (2023) 18 Min

ALL 05/31/2023 (en)
Documentary
  • Release 05/31/2023
  • Production
  • Original title Elective Vicissitudes: The Radical Exiles of Jules Dassin
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

In 1968, filmmaker Jules Dassin collaborated with Ruby Dee and civil rights activist Julian Mayfield on Uptight, a "politically radical" film noir about Black revolution, framed against the April 4 assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Director, producer and co-writer Dassin, a blacklisted American exile, returns to his birth country after having gone into a second exile from his adopted country Greece, then makes a film that roiled the powers that be (or "powers that were") in the U.S. government. The material so upset the FBI that they closely monitored the production up until the eve of its premiere, recruiting crew members as moles. The irony is rich, as Uptight was a remake of John Ford's The Informer (1935) and dealt with a turncoat character who engineers the assassination of a revolutionary leader. How is Uptight both an outlier (or anomaly) as well as simultaneously integral to the career of Jules Dassin?

  1. Daniel Kremer

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Daniel Kremer

    Editor

  4. Producer



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