Check out the trailer for the 1967 classic, To Sir, With Love.

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This film was selected by AAFCA member, Ronda Racha Penrice, as part of the series, Sony Pictures Action Presents: A Roundtable Discussion with the African American Film Critics Association. Learn more here: [ Ссылка ]

TO SIR, WITH LOVE REVIEW BY RONDA RACHA PENRICE
Times have changed dramatically since 1967, but, yet, To Sir, With Love has not lost its charm. Based on a book of the same name and created around author E.R. Braithwaite’s actual experiences as a Black man from British Guiana (modern-day Guyana) teaching troubled white youth in London, To Sir, With Love possesses a sense of civility out of place for today but certainly apropos for yesteryear. Sidney Poitier’s Mark Thackeray is both guarded and vulnerable. His constant composure throughout only lends more emphasis to his emotional slips. In the end, the truth is not that he is teaching because he needs a job; instead, it is because he has found a purpose, a calling. While racism is never in-your-face, it does lurk in the background, most notably through the absence of other Black faces. And most incredibly, To Sir, With Love came out in the same year as the more well-known Poitier classics In the Heat of the Night and Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner.

ABOUT TO SIR, WITH LOVE
A novice teacher faces a class of rowdy, undisciplined working-class punks in this classic film that reflected some of the problems and fears of teens in the 60s. Sidney Poitier gives one of his finest performances as Mark Thackeray, an out-of-work engineer who turns to teaching in London's tough East End. The graduating class, led by Denham (Christian Roberts), Pamela (Judy Geeson), and Barbara (Lulu, who also sings the hit title song), sets out to destroy Thackeray as they did his predecessor by breaking his spirit. But Thackeray, no stranger to hostility, meets the challenge by treating the students as young adults who will soon enter a workforce where they must stand or fall on their own. When offered an engineering job, Thackeray must decide if he wants to stay.

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