Film
Fight The Power: Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song
- 7PM
Preserved by The Museum of Modern Art with support from The Film Foundation and The Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
Melvin Van Peebles’ landmark of black independent cinema stars the one-man auteur as a strapping sex-show performer who stands up to police brutality then finds himself on the run from the law through the underbelly of 70s LA. Combining X-rated spectacle, New Wave experimentation, and stick-it-to-the-man politics, Van Peebles created what Huey P. Newton called “the first truly revolutionary Black film.”
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A super-fly Pam Grier gets even in this grindhouse classic.
“She’s 6-feet 2-inches of dynamite… And the hottest super agent ever!”
A mute, black alien crash-lands in Harlem in this wryly comic, lo-fi lost treasure.