And When I Die I Won't Stay Dead
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1h 29m
Leaving August 1
Directed by Billy Woodberry | 89 mins | 2015
Assembled from archival footage, new interviews, and readings from such figures as Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis, this high-spirited screen portrait of the late African American Beat poet and bon vivant Bob Kaufman is given an appropriately nimble, jazzy form by director Woodberry, a key figure of the LA Rebellion.
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