This week, we unpack “The Last Black Man In San Francisco” for what it can tell us about the individual’s relationship to an idea as slippery as gentrification. What’s more, co-writer and star of the Sundance award-winning indie Jimmie Fails joins the program to discuss skateboard wipeouts, how to develop physical chemistry, and why he feels the need to move on from the story at the heart of his new movie.

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