'Foxy Brown' + 'Jackie Brown' with Pam Grier in Person

When:
Friday, Oct 07, 2016 7:00p -
Saturday, Oct 08, 2016 10:00p

Where:
Harvard Film Archive
24 Quincy St
Cambridge, MA 02138

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Admission:
$12

Categories:
Film

Event website:
http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa/films/2016sepnov/grier.html#foxy

The legendary goddess of baadasssss cinema graces the HFA for two consecutive evenings! Friday she joins Henry Louis Gates, Jr. in conversation after FOXY BROWN at 7pm and Saturday she returns for a discussion after JACKIE BROWN!


http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa/films/2016sepnov/grier.html#foxy


All tickets $12 cash or check only. Tickets go on sale 45 minutes before showtime at the HFA box office. Only HFA members may reserve tickets in advance.


Foxy Brown


Directed by Jack Hill. With Pam Grier, Antonio Fargas, Peter Brown
US 1974, 35mm, color, 91 min
With Foxy Brown promoted as an “action heroine with a social conscience,” Grier’s superhero status reaches mythic heights in what is perhaps her most famous vehicle. Tragedy and betrayal strike too close to home, and the political becomes personal for Foxy Brown as she is forced into exacting her own brand of vigilante justice. Harnessing the powers of Black Panther-like revolutionaries, Brown takes on a seedy underground operation headed by an insecure villainess who makes prostitutes available to local officials in order to protect a lucrative drug ring. Not holding back on disturbing allusions to slavery and the history of violence against both women and people of color, Foxy Brown boldly goes where few films dare tread. Castrating the males in power one by one—symbolically and, at one point, literally—Brown seeks more than revenge; she wants her enemies to take profoundly painful walks in the shoes of those they have long oppressed. Print courtesy Park Circus.


Jackie Brown


Directed by Quentin Tarantino. With Pam Grier, Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Forster
US 1997, 35mm, color, 155 min


Longtime Pam Grier fan Quentin Tarantino pays sincere tribute to her impact on cinema and culture with his version of a Foxy/Coffy scenario updated to the more circumspect climate of the 90s. By changing the female protagonist in Elmore Leonard’s novel Rum Punch from white to black, injecting his cleverly nervous, rapid-fire repartee into the script, and casting Grier in the lead, Tarantino creates a smart, electric retort to Hollywood’s neglect of its finest. Even Tarantino’s usual casualties run relatively low as Jackie—still sassy, still sultry and fearless, but a little older and a little more tired—no longer needs to conspicuously destroy all evil. She simply wants to retrieve a life she has continually been denied and attempts to do so via an intricately crafted plot to divert funds from Samuel L. Jackson’s sociopathic gun smuggler into her own purse. Breathing well-deserved new life into both Grier’s and Robert Forster’s careers, the tightly scripted film marks a high point for each of its three stars and lovingly tops off Grier’s record-breaking list of films with her character’s name as the title. Print courtesy Quentin Tarantino.

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