This screening includes Uptight!/Black Panthers
- Date and time:
- Fri, Feb 9, 2018, From 7–9:15 pm
- Runtime:
- 2 hr 15 min
- Cost:
- $4 all tickets.
Series: Wounded Galaxies 1968
About Uptight!/Black Panthers
- Year Released:
- 1968/1969
- Genres:
- Documentary, Drama, Thriller
- Metadata:
Black Panthers (1969) Directed by Agnès Varda
Blacklisted filmmaker Jules Dassin returned to Hollywood to update The Informer, substituting a Black Panther-like revolutionary cadre for the Irish Republican Army, shooting on location in Cleveland’s ghetto with a mainly Black cast. (“It’s gonna blow Whitey’s mind,” one enthusiastic actor was quoted as saying.) Schematic and verbose, Uptight! has all the flaws of Dassin’s social noirs; it also shares their virtues including a sense of bottled-up rage that explodes in the apocalyptic final half-hour. Made in Oakland during the summer of 1968, Agnès Varda’s short documentary Black Panthers(28 min.) is a casually electrifying account of Black Panther Party rallies and demonstrations. (16mm/16mm Presentation)
More information on the Wounded Galaxies 1968 Festival and Symposium can be found here.