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BLAXPLOITATION, BABY! - Odie Henderson and Bruce Goldstein
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In part 3 of the July – September 2024 installment of UNFOLDING THE CALENDAR, Film Forum’s Repertory Artistic Director Bruce Goldstein has a lively, free-wheeling conversation with Odie Henderson, chief film critic of The Boston Globe, about our upcoming festival BLAXPLOITATION, BABY!, opening Friday, August 16, and continuing for a week with 16 genre classics from the early 1970s, including SHAFT, SUPER FLY, COFFY, CLEOPATRA JONES, and much more. The festival coincides with the publication of Henderson’s new book, Black Caesars and Foxy Cleopatras: A History of Blaxploitation, available for purchase at our concession during the festival. Odie will appear in person at Film Forum to introduce screenings of FOXY BROWN, WILLIE DYNAMITE, and BLACK CAESAR – with a book signing follow Friday night’s show of FOXY BROWN. As a young man, Odie attended every single movie in Film Forum’s -- and the world’s – very first Blaxploitation festival in 1995, programmed by Bruce and pioneering author and film historian Donald Bogle, who also collaborated on the current series. Justin Simien’s 4-part documentary HOLLYOOD BLACK, based on Bogle’s book, premiered this week on MGM+.
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Manage episode 434454586 series 2594867
In part 3 of the July – September 2024 installment of UNFOLDING THE CALENDAR, Film Forum’s Repertory Artistic Director Bruce Goldstein has a lively, free-wheeling conversation with Odie Henderson, chief film critic of The Boston Globe, about our upcoming festival BLAXPLOITATION, BABY!, opening Friday, August 16, and continuing for a week with 16 genre classics from the early 1970s, including SHAFT, SUPER FLY, COFFY, CLEOPATRA JONES, and much more. The festival coincides with the publication of Henderson’s new book, Black Caesars and Foxy Cleopatras: A History of Blaxploitation, available for purchase at our concession during the festival. Odie will appear in person at Film Forum to introduce screenings of FOXY BROWN, WILLIE DYNAMITE, and BLACK CAESAR – with a book signing follow Friday night’s show of FOXY BROWN. As a young man, Odie attended every single movie in Film Forum’s -- and the world’s – very first Blaxploitation festival in 1995, programmed by Bruce and pioneering author and film historian Donald Bogle, who also collaborated on the current series. Justin Simien’s 4-part documentary HOLLYOOD BLACK, based on Bogle’s book, premiered this week on MGM+.
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