Name: BPPFF 11: Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee
Start: 2019-10-03T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2019-10-03T22:00:00-04:00
Location: Maysles Documentary Center

BPPFF 11: Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee

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<p>It’s hard not to feel like you're eavesdropping on a private family conversation while watching Muta'Ali Muhammad's documentary tribute to his grandparents Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee. Lovingly dedicated to "Grandpa &amp; Gram Rudy" in the opening credits, Life's Essentials With Ruby Dee is a deeply personal effort in which the filmmaker is as much the subject as his famed actor/activist relatives. Structured in the form of an open cinematic letter to his grandmother, the film begins with Muhammad lamenting the fact that he never had the opportunity to interview Davis in depth before his sudden 2005 death in a Miami hotel room. Among those paying tribute to Davis at his funeral was Bill Clinton, who declared, "He would have been a very good president of the United States." </p><p>This eventually prompted the filmmaker to interview his grandmother before it was too late — she died at the age of 91 — with the resulting documentary including many excerpts from their filmed conversations as well as a brief history of her and Davis' life and career. Dee meeting Davis when they co-starred in the 1946 Broadway play Jeb. They married in 1948, with the union lasting over 56 years. "I thought it was a pretty good use of a Thursday," Davis later said about their wedding day.</p>

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