95 mins |
Rated
TBC
Thomasine & Bushrod
(Gordon Parks Jr., 1974, 95 min)
Sun May 28, 4:00 pm
Wed May 31, 7:00 pm
In 1974, two years after making Super Fly, the director Gordon Parks, Jr., infused this picaresque Western with a similar blend of cool swagger and social acuity. The action starts in 1911, in Texas, where Thomasine (Vonetta McGee), a sharpshooting bounty hunter, and H. P. Bushrod (Max Julien), a most-wanted outlaw, team up to rob banks. Distributing their pelf to the poor and disposing of murderous racists, they become living legends throughout the South…radically revising Western conventions in light of the experience and the history of its Black protagonists. (Richard Brody, The New Yorker)
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Thomasine & Bushrod
(Gordon Parks Jr., 1974, 95 min)
Sun May 28, 4:00 pm
Wed May 31, 7:00 pm
In 1974, two years after making Super Fly, the director Gordon Parks, Jr., infused this picaresque Western with a similar blend of cool swagger and social acuity. The action starts in 1911, in Texas, where Thomasine (Vonetta McGee), a sharpshooting bounty hunter, and H. P. Bushrod (Max Julien), a most-wanted outlaw, team up to rob banks. Distributing their pelf to the poor and disposing of murderous racists, they become living legends throughout the South…radically revising Western conventions in light of the experience and the history of its Black protagonists. (Richard Brody, The New Yorker)