“For One Family, ‘Silver Dollar Road’ Is Worth More Than The Currency In Its Title”

I’m only writing anything “original” here to remind you all of the time I spoke to Raoul Peck, one of our last living gentlemen and one of our great documentarians of appalling social injustices done on Black bodies. Anyway, that’s done with; enjoy the opening graf of this other piece, now why dontcha.

“Raoul Peck does his audience a great kindness with a simple, unassuming gesture: The introduction of and recurring visits to the Reels’ family tree. Peck’s new documentary, Silver Dollar Road, draws on the Reels’ years-long real estate saga as its source, and Lizzie Presser’s jaw-dropping 2019 ProPublica article as its basis; he justifies his own interrogation of the family’s legal travails through variations on his usual sociopolitical filmmaking lens. Some documentaries would be better off as written journalism. Silver Dollar Road complements Presser’s work with Peck’s erudition and humane touch.” (Full review at Paste Magazine.)

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