![]() ![]() As with Gandhi, another outstanding true story with similar themes, the movie's lengthy running time doesn't seem at all extravagant, but rather necessary to give a complex life the dimension it deserves. That's a terrific seed to plant in the heads of high school students looking toward college and a future career. The movie does an excellent job, too, of stressing the importance of education, reminding us that we each have the power not just to change our own life, but the lives of many. ![]() As his wife, Angela Bassett is also outstanding, as are Albert Hall and Al Freeman Jr. Denzel Washington turns in a stunning, dignified performance without ever seeming like he's acting. Lee is honest in giving us a flawed hero, a man blinded by his cause, a leader unafraid to publicly denounce his own philosophies as he awakens to new and more hopeful ones. Its dead level honesty, its passion, its exalted purpose will make it stand as a monument to the most painful truth.THE NATIONThis hardcover edition of the modern classic, THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X, is the result of a unique collaboration between Alex Haley and Malcolm X, whose voice and philosophy resonate from every page, just as his experience and his intelligence. Perhaps MALCOLM X's greatest achievement is the fair-mindedness with which it treats its subject. ![]() ![]() Based on The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Spike Lee's chronicle of the rise and fall of the outspoken - and still-controversial - civil rights leader isn't the angry film one might expect. ![]()
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