Screening as part of Academy's BAD BOYS OF THE 70s Film Festival, April 26th - May 11th. With SHAFT the spotlight is on Richard Roundtree.100 mins | Rated R13 (Violence & sex scenes) | Classic
Directed by Gordon Parks | Starring Charles Cioffi, Moses Gunn, Richard Roundtree, Drew Bundini Brown, Christopher St. John
While the Black Power movement was reshaping America, trailblazing director Gordon Parks made this groundbreaking blockbuster, which helped launch the blaxploitation era and introduced a new kind of badder-than-bad action hero in John Shaft (Richard Roundtree, in a career-defining role), a streetwise New York City private eye who is as tough with criminals as he is tender with his lovers.
After Shaft is recruited to rescue the kidnapped daughter of a Harlem mob boss from Italian gangsters, he finds himself in the middle of a rapidly escalating uptown vs. downtown turf war. A vivid time capsule of gritty seventies Manhattan that has inspired sequels and multimedia reboots galore, the original SHAFT is studded with indelible elements—from Roundtree’s sleek leather fashions to the iconic funk and soul score by Isaac Hayes.
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44 Lorne Street, Auckland, New Zealand 1010, New Zealand
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