The Learning Tree (Parks, 1969): BFI Southbank, NFT3, 8.40pm
This groundbreaking film is part of the African American Western season and also screens on February 21st. Details here.
BFI introduction:
Renowned photographer Gordon Parks wrote, directed, produced and scored
this adaptation of his 1963 novel. A deeply personal and
semi-autobiographical drama, it follows Newt Winger, a Black teenager
navigating adolescence and manhood in 1920s Cherokee Flats, Kansas. This
poignant coming-of-age story vividly captures the challenges of racial
injustice, community and self-discovery during a turbulent era. Among
the first films to be inducted into the American National Film Registry
in 1989, it remains a touchstone of American cinema.
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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