Shaft at GFT
Monday 22 and Wednesday 24 January, 2024
While the Black Power movement was reshaping America, trailblazing director Gordon Parks (The Learning Tree) made this groundbreaking blockbuster, which helped launch the blaxploitation era and gave the screen a new kind of badder-than-bad action hero in John Shaft — an iconic performance by Richard Roundtree, who passed away in 2023.
Shaft is a streetwise New York City private eye who is as tough with criminals as he is tender with his lovers. After he’s recruited to rescue the kidnapped daughter of a Harlem mob boss (Moses Gunn) from Italian gangsters, he finds himself in the middle of a rapidly escalating uptown vs. downtown turf war.
GFT 12 Rose Street, G3 6RB
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