Film
Buck and the Preacher
Sat, Aug 4, 2012
- 2PM
LOCATION:
Peter Jay Sharp Building
BAM Rose Cinemas
RUN TIME: 102min
FORMAT: 35mm
GENERAL ADMISSION: $12
BAM CINEMA CLUB MEMBERS: $7
STUDENTS/SENIORS:
$9 (Students 29 and under with a valid ID, Mon—Thu)
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August 2012
Saturday August 04, 2012
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Part of
BAMcinématek 2012
series Do the Reggae
Directed by Sidney Poitier
With Poitier, Harry Belafonte, Ruby Dee
Adopting names like Clint Eastwood, Josey Wales, Lee Van Cleef, and the Lone Ranger and producing tunes like “Django Shoots First,” reggae DJs have taken the western very seriously. As a tribute to DJ I-Roy, possibly the most eloquent DJ of the 70s, this series presents his favorite film (and the subject of an eponymous song), Buck and the Preacher. An antebellum black western starring Poitier (also making his directorial debut) as Buck and Belafonte as the charlatan priest, the film follows the two men as they lead a wagon train of newly freed slaves to frontier exodus. If any western could be deemed Rasta, this is it!