Houston DJ Flash Gordon Parks will introduce the film, as well as take part in a post-film discussion with Peter Lucas who programs the museum's yearly Jazz on Film series.
Richard Roundtree is John Shaft in Gordon Parks'"Shaft" .Since October, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston has featured an exhibit titled “Gordon Parks: Stokely Carmichael and Black Power,” which displays all the pictures the African-American photographer shot of the African-American activist , for a 1967 profile in Life magazine.
DJ/photographer/ethnomusicologist Flash Gordon Parks will introduce the film, as well as take part in a post-film discussion with Peter Lucas , where they’ll talk about Hayes’s groundbreaking, Grammy-winning soundtrack. Flash, who also curated a special playlist for the Parks/Carmichael exhibit, suggested that the museum screen not only “Shaft,” but “Leadbelly,” Parks’s 1976 musical biopic of blues legend Huddie Ledbetter.
This isn’t the first time the MFAH has screened the classic. In 1996, the film closed out “Blaxploitation Bijoux,” a month-long retrospective of Blaxploitation films. And, in 2001, it was a part of a retrospective of Parks films titled “The Films of Gordon Parks: Retrospective of a Living Legend.”
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