Interview With "Soundtrack To A Coup d'Etat" Director Johan Grimonprez

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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"Soundtrack To A Coup d'Etat" had its world premiere at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Special Jury Award for Cinematic Innovation and received critical acclaim for its unique storytelling of how musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach crashed the UN Security Council in protest against the murder of Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba during the Cold War. Director Johan Grimonprez was kind enough to spend a few minutes speaking with us about his work on the documentary, which you can listen to below. Please be sure to check out the film, which is now playing in theaters from Kino Lorber and is up for your consideration at this year's Academy Awards for Best Documentary Feature. Thank you, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture and listen to this podcast ad-free Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are listening to The Next Best Picture podcast, and this is my interview with the director of Soundtrack to Akuta Ta, Yoan Grimim Press.
0:08.0	One of America's most popular emissaries arrives in the troubled Congo on a State Department's Goodwill mission.
0:14.4	Louis Solid Swinging Outreed Radio Moscow, which blasted Armstrong's visit as a diversionary tactic.
0:20.2	The people in the Congo are entitled to build up their country in peace and freedom.
0:25.6	Hold be close and old be best.
0:35.6	We were to go to a little bit there to attend a concert given by Louis Armstrong.
0:40.3	How much money do the Central Intelligence Agency has poured into the Congo?
0:45.3	I don't know. Are you prepared to sell?
0:47.3	I certainly, of course, don't know. I wonder if it's quite honest to represent our policy as completely angelic. When you seated out on the terrace was a man I recognized.
0:59.2	He said, well, you have to assassinate Lumumba.
1:02.2	He used those words.
1:04.2	Yes.
1:05.2	But who ordered him?
1:08.2	He said, President Eisenhower.
1:10.2	Hello, everyone. Welcome to the Next Best Picture podcast, where I am being joined right now by the director
1:15.2	for the documentary film soundtrack to Akuta, Johann, Grimamprez.
1:20.4	Johan, how are you today?
1:21.9	We're good.
1:22.6	Still waking up.
1:25.2	We're on Los Angeles.
1:26.5	Thank you so much for taking time to speak with me today about this really incredible
1:32.1	documentary.
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