Film
Cleopatra Jones
Sat, Feb 3, 2018
- 4:30PM
- 9:30PM
LOCATION:
RUN TIME: 89min
FORMAT: 35mm
GENERAL ADMISSION: $15
MEMBERS: $7.50 (free for Level 4 and above)
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Intro by Racquel Gates, Assistant Professor of Cinema & Media Studies at the College of Staten Island, CUNY before 4:30 screening.
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February 2018
Saturday February 03, 2018
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Part of
Film 2018
series Fight the Power: Black Superheroes on Film
Directed by Jack Starrett | 1973
With Tamara Dobson, Bernie Casey, Shelley Winters
Altitudinous, uzi-wielding Special Agent to the President Cleo (six-foot-two model Dobson, listed by Guinness as the “Tallest Leading Lady in Film”) blows up Turkish poppy fields as she takes down the smack business run by Shelley Winters’ hysterical queenpin. This ferocious mix of feminism and fight-the-man attitude features a funky, Gold-selling soundtrack and cameos by Soul Train’s Don Cornelius and Good Times’ Esther Rolle.
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