Black Like Me

Starring:James Whitmore, Sorrell Booke, Roscoe Lee Browne, Al Freeman Jr., Will Geer, Robert Gerringer, Clifton James, John Marriott, Thelma Oliver, Lenka Peterson, P. Jay Sidney, Billie Allen, Alan Bergmann (II), Stanley Brock, Heywood Hale Broun, Sarah Cunningham, David Huddleston, Eva Jessye, D'Urville Martin, Walter Mason
Director: Carl Lerner
Studio: Vci/Ffi
Product Type: DVD

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Re-Release This DVD!! Make It Affordable!!
A CLASSIC IN ANY YEAR
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Dated But Still Packs a Punch
Great Perception

Black Like ME
Starring: James Whitmore , Sorrell Booke , Roscoe Lee Browne , Al Freeman Jr. , and Will Geer
Director: Carl Lerner
Manufacturer: United Home
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Customer Reviews:

Re-Release This DVD!! Make It Affordable!!.......2007-05-29

Please re-release this amazing film on DVD!!!So that humble people such as myself can afford it. Thanks!!!

A CLASSIC IN ANY YEAR.......2005-05-05

This film was in theatres in 1964 and was well received. Tragically, today's culture in infested with rappers tomming in blackface. That does not mean that the battle has been lost. If this excellent film would be re-released, we would soon see the likes of 50 Centz and SnoopppDogggg disappear from the scene. When the Light shines in the darkness the darkness does not comprehend it.

sad.......2005-03-22

I only read the book Black Like Me and I thought that he was very brave for doing what he did just to prove that black people are getting tried wrong and that we are all equal. I gave him 4 stars because he should have showed more details in the book and not just the stuff we already knew about.

Dated But Still Packs a Punch.......2004-05-25

For those of us of a certain generation, this was a seminal movie. It brought race relations to the fore in a way which Time Magazine articles or even newsreel footage of Civil Rights marchers being sprayed down by power hoses didn't.

The impact came, for me at least, from James Whitmore's understated, slow-burn performance. Nothing that dramatic happens to him in this movie. He's just shunted off incrementally, in one place or another, for no other reason than that he's passing himself off for black. It's really a Spencer Tracy acting turn, in a way. His transformation from weakling to adjudicator is akin to Tracy's in BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK.

The Bad guys are pretty much set up in a row. We also know who the good guy is. Hate to use the analogy, but things are presented in very black and white terms here. We know who the heroes and villains are. But the drama is in how it plays out. Whitmore learns lesson after painful lesson. The upshot is that his story and the film itself acts as a powerful exposé of the segregrationalist policies of the era. It made it a lot harder for the South to justify it's arcane drinking fountain, swimming pool, cafe-seating, bus-seating policies, in other words. One of the really important movies of the era, in other words, and one that should still be receiving kudos!
BEK

Great Perception.......2004-05-10

The movie was a great hit and especially the book because it was captivating my every movement. It taught me a lesson to be more aware of other cultures and it showed growth from a man different perspective.

Jazz Piano Made Easy with Play Like Me's Manha de Carnaval

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There's nothing like this piano course
Very good and could be even better.

Jazz Piano Made Easy with Play Like Me's Manha de Carnaval

Manufacturer: Brownstone Productions
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Product Description

Learn to play one of the best Brazilian jazz songs of all time. Includes: Interactive DVD with over 2 hours of personalized instruction,3 levels of sheet music and instruction, history of the song, modern and easy to learn arrangements and a bonus chord tutorial to help you learn how to build jazz chords. Great for all levels of piano player.

Customer Reviews:

There's nothing like this piano course.......2005-12-23

Having taken more jazz piano lessons than I can count and causing the eyeballs of my piano teachers to roll back into their heads as I made the same mistakes again and again, this course by Bill Susman is jazz piano-learning-heaven for me.

I can play the same measure 100 times again and again and Bill Susman on the DVD doesn't groan or look at his watch or beg me to find another teacher.

Because I'm not as advanced yet as the other reviewer who wants to play all the special riffs that is heard in the demo, this course still allowed me to learn Manha De Carnaval at the simplest level 1 and then levels 2 and 3--and I not only sound good but I understand what I'm playing.

The course uses a unique method of repeating the lesson automatically until you are ready to start a new lesson. In so doing, you find yourself playing the measures of the lesson again and again, following Bill's hands, until you surprise yourself that you can play the entire measure exactly and competently.

The sheer repetition causes memorization to happen without you forcing yourself to memorize the chords; but it is not boring. Because you only keep repeating until you have the chords down pat. Then you move on.

I have never seen another video or dvd based course that automatically repeats the lesson on screen--this subtly encouraging you to try again and again.

After 3 days of doing this course, I played the entire jazz piece--albeit, haltingly--but i played it and I understood what I was playing. I have since played the song at speed and am very impressed with Susman's technique that helped me do this (and my ability to show off my jazz playing for my husband).

What surprised me most was that I picked up a general jazz fake book and was able to play some simpler jazz tunes in the book without a guided lesson. The jazz chord techniques that Bill Susman teaches in Manha de Carnaval work for all jazz fake books.

I have given this course as a gift to 5 other friends who also have been frustrated in learning jazz piano; and to some friends who are current jazz piano teachers. They have then had their own students buy the course to supplement their private classes.

I was also impressed by personal answers I received when I put in questions on their website (www.playlikeme.com). I wanted to know the theory behind some of the chords used in Manha De Carnival and got an immediate and comprehensive response from the author, Bill Susman.

It doesn't get much better than this for me for $19.95.

Very good and could be even better........2005-11-17

This is a very good and clear presentation of how to develop jazz chords from a lead sheet. Susman goes through each measure of the piece on three levels. The progression is excellent, as each level is slightly more complicated than the previous, and it is very clearly presented on the DVD. I really like this measure by measure, go at your own pace approach. I also like the explanations of how the various chords are built. For me this DVD was definitely worth the money.

Susman goes through all the measures of each line and then he plays the line in its entirety. The only reason I didn't give it five stars was that sometimes he would come up with different fingering playing the whole line than he did for the individual measures, which was sometimes confusing. Also, when he plays the song in its entirety, stylistically, he uses some very attractive runs and riffs that sounds very professional. I would very much like to learn these, but there is no sheet music for the runs he is playing and there is no explanation of them on the DVD. I would have gladly paid more for them, or even bought them separately as an add-on, but they are not offered. Normally I wouldn't be upset about this point because I can appreciate a performing artist not wanting to give away his signature runs. However, the major selling line for the DVD is "Play Like Me."

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