Phyllis Wattis Theater
151 3rd St
415.357.4130
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James Baldwin, Photo: Carl Van Vechten
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Thursday Aug 27, 2009 (7pm)
Saturday Aug 29, 2009 (3pm)
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$10
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The elephant in the room in Medicine for Melancholy, Barry Jenkins' San Francisco-set romance between two young African American urbanites, was the city's deracination. San Francisco's African-American population is proportionally less than half that of 1970, and the number keep shrinking. Which is what makes a film like Take This Hammer, an early KQED-produced documentary, all the more remarkable. Followed by a roving camera crew, James Baldwin interviews local African American leaders and residents in what is now a portrait of a largely vanished community. Losing Just the Same, made two years later, focuses on the daily lives of youths growing up in an Oakland ghetto.
