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MEETING THE MAN — JAMES BALDWIN IN PARIS

The 58th New York Film Festival presents a rare screening of the documentary MEETING THE MAN: JAMES BALDWIN IN PARIS.

Directed by Terence Dixon and photographed by Jack Hazan, the 2K restoration will play in Brooklyn—preceding William Klein’s Muhammad Ali: The Greatest—and stream online.

See links below for details.

MEETING THE MAN—JAMES BALDWIN IN PARIS

58th New York Film Festival

Sunday, October 11, at 8 pm.

Brooklyn Drive-In

Brooklyn Army Terminal

80 58th Street, Sunset Park, Brooklyn.

From top: Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris (1971), still, courtesy of Buzzy Enterprises Ltd.; Meeting the Man production photographs (2); Baldwin and Beauford Delaney in Paris, circa 1960, photographer unknown, courtesy and © the estate of Beauford Delaney; James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room (1956) , cover image courtesy and © Dial Press.