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CLEOPATRA JONES screens one night only at Pop's Art Theater as part of our 3nd annual "Through the Black Lens" film series, presented in partnership with Griot Arts!Tickets available now at www.popsarttheater.com
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Marketed as 6′2″ of “dynamite,” Tamara Dobson cut an unforgettably charismatic figure in this energetic blast of Blaxploitation, which offered a rousing feminine spin on a notably masculine genre. She plays the eponymous undercover special agent, a no-nonsense martial arts expert, facing off against the dastardly drug lord Mommy. A Turkish poppy field is torched, and “Mommy” is feeling pretty burned. She phones the local cops she owns and orders a retaliatory strike on an inner-city antidrug headquarters. Mommy’s next call should be to 911. For now she’ll have to mess with Cleopatra Jones. Mommy is relentless in her vendetta – but Cleo responds with catlike karate stealth. Doodlebug, Pickle, Snake and more of Mommy’s offbeat stooges add glide to the story’s stride. Their antics, Mommy’s chortling sleaziness and Cleo’s class shape the power and pizazz of Cleopatra Jones.
1973 | 98 min. | PG | USA
Dir. Jack Starrett
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Pop's Art Theater and Griot Arts are proud to announce the second of "Through the Black Lens," an annual program centering on Black voices in film. This year's series, "Black Power & Pulp: The Radical Legacy of Blaxploitation" takes a look at the films of one of Black cinema's most lucrative, influential and controversial movements.
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Pop's Art Theater, 619 6th Ave NW, Rochester, MN 55901-2672, United States
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