Film
Buck and the Preacher
Sun, Feb 4, 2018
- 4:30PM
- 9:30PM
LOCATION:
RUN TIME: 102min
FORMAT: 35mm
GENERAL ADMISSION: $15
MEMBERS: $7.50 (free for Level 4 and above)
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Intro by Mia Mask, Professor of Film, Vassar College before the 4:30 screening
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February 2018
Sunday February 04, 2018
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Part of
Film 2018
series Fight the Power: Black Superheroes on Film
Directed by Sidney Poitier | 1972
With Poitier, Harry Belafonte, Ruby Dee
Sidney Poitier became one of Hollywood’s first black directors with this ambitious, politically charged, shoot-’em-up, the rare oater to address African-American pioneer life. He stars as the freed slave Buck who teams up with Harry Belafonte’s crooked preacher to fight back against a ruthless band of white oppressors.
Intro by Mia Mask, Professor of Film, Vassar College
Before the 4:30 screening
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