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Lilies of the Field
Sun, Feb 6 | 7:30pm | DGT
Sidney Poitier became the first Black performer to win an Academy Award for Best Actor, and cemented his status as one of the top film stars of his time, in this charming comedy-drama that received five nominations including Best Picture. Poitier plays Homer Smith, a laborer traveling across the Arizona desert who finds himself unexpectedly helping a group of European nuns build a chapel.
DIRECTOR: Ralph Nelson.
CAST: Sidney Poitier, Lilia Skala, Lisa Mann, Isa Crino.
1963. 97 min. USA. B&W. English. 35mm.
Shaft
Sun, Feb 13 | 7:30pm | DGT
Richard Roundtree is “the man who won’t cop out when there’s danger all about” in this 1971 classic, which helped to establish a new era of African American-driven cinema and won an Original Song Oscar for the unforgettable title tune by Isaac Hayes, also nominated for his Original Score. Photographer-turned-filmmaker Gordon Parks directed the lively mystery, in which Shaft hunts for a gangster’s kidnapped daughter in authentically gritty Manhattan locations.
DIRECTOR: Gordon Parks.
CAST: Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Charles Cioffi, Christopher St. John. 1971. 100 min. USA. Color. English. 35mm.
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