Foxy Brown (Hill, 1974): BFI Southbank, NFT1, 2.45pm
Today's screening includes a Q&A with star Pam Grier. Here are details of other screenings (on September 13th and October 3rd) of this movie and here are the full list of films in the Grier season.
Chicago Reader review:
With her strong, chiseled features and take-no-prisoners attitude, Pam
Grier was the best of the blaxploitation heroines of the 70s,
transcending the tawdriness of vehicles like this one through sheer
presence. She gamely bears the weight of this 1974 feature’s ideological
inconsistency, functioning simultaneously as heroine and victim,
avenger and sex kitten, conscience of the community and law unto
herself. The film is dated, but its mixed message—and its potential to
offend virtually everyone—still makes it a powerful discussion starter.
Grier’s Foxy has to rescue her younger brother from a drug ring, fight
organized crime, and prevent a drug shipment from reaching the streets
of her community, and along the way she’s manhandled, abused, degraded,
and displayed as a spectacle. Not for those made squeamish by torture,
rape, castration, or foul language.
Barbara Scharres
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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