Raoul Peck

1 month ago | dmovies.org | Victor Fraga |Taghi Amirani |Valnei Nunes |Raoul Peck

With a duration of 150 minutes, and a freeform structure heavily reliant on highly innovative montage, Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat takes viewers on a loud and colourful journey across the developments that led to the murder of Congo’s first democratically elected leader, Patrice Lumumba. Most of the events take place in 1960. The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) gained its independence from Belgium (“an independence rotten at the roots”) on June 30th of that year.

Nov 8, 2024 | metacritic.com | Raoul Peck

November 2024 Movie Preview Keith Kimbell Our editors select the most notable films debuting in November, including Moana and Gladiator sequels, the first film in a two-part Wicked adaptation, and multiple potential Oscar contenders.

Oct 17, 2024 | cineuropa.org | Raoul Peck

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Jan 11, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | Raoul Peck

The Ernest Cole story never ceases to intrigue and fascinate. In his images, I see a stinging tension, the same tension that has hounded me my entire life: the feeling of not quite belonging anywhere, and yet simultaneously feeling free and emboldened to reclaim a place in that foreign space. Settling in a country other than where you were born, on a different continent from where you grew up and in a place where you’re not a citizen, shapes your core and who you will grow to be.

Oct 20, 2023 | jacobin.com | Raoul Peck

Interview by Ed Rampell Oscar-nominated writer/director Raoul Peck’s latest documentary, Silver Dollar Road, focuses on Elijah Reels, a black American who — after the Civil War — purchased “65 marshy acres that ran along Silver Dollar Road, from the woods to the river’s sandy shore” in Carteret County, on the central coast of North Carolina.