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- Director Joe Talbot and his longtime friend (and lead actor), Jimmie Fails, have crafted a unique story of legacy, memory and gentrification in their debut effort, centering on the fictionalized “Jimmie Fails,” a young man wrestling with the weight of legacy embodied by a Victorian-era house in San Francisco’s Fillmore neighborhood that his family lost during the 1990s crack epidemic.
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Jun 6, 2019 · That short scene, from the forthcoming film The Last Black Man in San Francisco, opening this Friday, manages to encapsulate San Francisco’s current issue with rampant gentrification. The city ...
Jun 21, 2019 · Talbot, who is white but was born and raised in the city and has watched gentrification change its landscape, understands the complexities of loving a place that does not always treat you well ...
Oct 2, 2019 · Tales of the city — Ahead of its UK release, the team behind The Last Black Man In San Francisco explain how they made this year’s indie breakout – a story about friendship, solitude and displacement.
Jun 14, 2019 · In his analysis, he described the many ways gentrification pushed people out: last-resident displacement, chain displacement, exclusionary displacement and displacement pressure. Recognizing all four as part of gentrification underscored the fact that it “affects more than those actually displaced at any given moment.”
Jun 5, 2019 · The film, which premiered at Sundance and earned instant buzz thanks to rhapsodic reviews and its backers A24 and Plan B, is the latest in a spate of recent projects about race and gentrification...
Jun 7, 2019 · The Last Black Man appears to be a story about robbery via gentrification in one of the American capitals of income inequality, and it is. But it’s more than that. Stories about gentrification are also stories about the loss of identity, about the loss of the place a set of people once called home.
Jun 12, 2019 · Childhood friends muse on gentrification with the soulful ‘Last Black Man in San Francisco’. Jimmie Fails, left, and Jonathan Majors play loyal friends in “The Last Black Man in San ...
