Staggerlee . . . A Conversation with Black Panther Bobby Seale

A powerful portrait of resistance, Staggerlee was filmed in the San Francisco County Jail, where in 1970 Black Panther cofounder Bobby Seale was being held pending his extradition to Connecticut. In an expansive interview, Seale holds forth on cooking, poetry, intimacy, solitary confinement, revolutionary psychology, and Huey Newton. Newman succeeds brilliantly at his goal of “cutting through the static” of the media’s portrayal of the Black Panther Party as thugs, as well as what he called the Panthers’ sometimes “reckless rhetoric,” to document the person behind the party.