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In his new book The Rebel\u2019s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon, Adam Shatz writes that, \u201cThe American poet Amiri Baraka described James Baldwin, who was born a year before Fanon, as \u2018God\u2019s Black revolutionary mouth.\u2019 What Baldwin was for America, Fanon was for the world, especially the insurgent Third World, those subjects of European empires who had been denied what Edward Said called the \u2018permission to narrate.\u2019\u201d Shatz\u2019s book explores, in lucid detail, the complex life and thought of the Martinican psychiatrist and anticolonial theorist,\xa0 whose life was tragically cut short in 1961.\n\nFanon\u2019s epochal books Black Skin, White Mask and The Wretched of the Earth have long been a source of inspiration for politically minded filmmakers, including Med Hondo, Claire Denis, and many others. Film Comment Editors Devika Girish and Clinton Krute invited Adam on the podcast to talk about Fanon\u2019s interest in cinema, filmmakers who\u2019ve engaged the theorist\u2019s works, and what exactly makes a movie \u201cFanonian.\u201d In addition to films by Hondo and Denis, we talked about Ivan Dixon\u2019s The Spook Who Sat by the Door, Antonioni\u2019s The Passenger, Gillo Pontecorvo\u2019s The Battle of Algiers, Ousmane Semb\xe8ne\u2019s Black Girl, and more.