blurblet in the new yorker

This week's New Yorker (April 30) contains this paragraph in the Current
Cinema listings:

THE POLYMATH, OR THE LIFE AND OPINIONS OF SAMUEL R. DELANY, GENTLEMAN

A brisk documentary, by Fred Barney Taylor, featuring the prolific
science-fiction author and literary critic. Delany’s novels, dim views of
the future with an almost Shakespearean use of language, can be a dense
and time-draining experience, so it comes as a nice surprise that Delany
himself is a straightforward, no-holds-barred speaker. He recalls in vivid
detail the black experience of the late forties and fifties in New York
City and the particulars of his childhood in Harlem, where he was raised
above his father’s funeral parlor. Later, when he moved to the Lower East
Side, he lived a gloriously promiscuous gay life while managing to write
five novels by the time he was twenty-two. With his big white beard and
bearish girth, Delany makes a warm impression, and Taylor’s understated
direction, featuring simple images that prod Delany’s recollections gently
along, makes the film a lively and thoughtful look at a deeply lived-in
life.—Bruce Diones (Tribeca Film Festival; April 26, April 28-29, and May
3.)

--Zvi




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