Film:
Shaft
Showtimes:
Tuesday Feb 28 01:00 PM
Tuesday Feb 28 07:30 PM
Location:
Doris Duke Theatre
About the Film:
Director: Gordon Parks
USA, 1971, 100 mins.
Richard Roundtree cuts a startlingly new and powerful heroic figure as John Shaft, “the cat who won’t cop out, when there’s danger all about” in Gordon Parks’ seminal action film Shaft. Shaft is a black private eye in New York. When a crime lord calls on him to locate his kidnapped daughter, he finds himself going head to head with the local Italian mafia. Directed by Hollywood’s first major black director, Shaft set the blaxpolitation movement in motion and received an Academy Award for Isaac Hayes’ unforgettable theme song.
Preceded by
Hawaii Premiere
Crazy Beats Strong Every Time (short)
Directed by Moon Molson
USA, 2011, 26 mins
An African-American twenty-something finds his Nigerian-immigrant stepfather passed out drunk in their apartment building hallway and is manipulated by a friend into murdering him.
