A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Harlem, New York, USA
Born:
August 2, 1924
Died:
December 1, 1987
James Arthur Baldwin was an African-American novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic. His essays, as collected in Notes of a Native Son, explore palpable yet unspoken intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in Western societies, most notably in mid-20th-century America, and their inevitable if unnameable tensions.
Novel:
1985 Go Tell It on the Mountain
1992 Toc Storee
2018 If Beale Street Could Talk
Original Story:
1985 Go Tell It on the Mountain
1992 Toc Storee
2018 If Beale Street Could Talk
2022 Brother, Where Are You?
Writer:
1982 I Heard It Through the Grapevine
1985 Go Tell It on the Mountain
1992 Toc Storee
2017 I Am Not Your Negro
2018 If Beale Street Could Talk
2022 Brother, Where Are You?
2023 James Baldwin Abroad
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.