I've watched this several times now, and have recommended it multiple times in my MUBI ad reads but just realized I've never logged it on here.

It's an incredibly evocative portrait of James Baldwin. The slightly antagonistic relationship between him as the subject and the documentarians only really serves to illustrate the nuance with which he understood and wanted to articulate his experience of the world. It's one of the few cases where you see his brilliance not because of the documentary but through and in spite of it's failures.