Black Caesar
Skype intro by filmmaker Larry Cohen on Friday!
James Brown dance party with free Stella beer on Saturday from 7:30pm – 9:30pm, open to all ticket holders!
In this furious Blaxploitation riff on the Hollywood gangster film, for which Brown composed the soundtrack, a poor black shoeshine boy takes out a corrupt mob boss, only to accept the white man’s power structures when he himself gains control.
Skype intro by filmmaker Larry Cohen on Friday!
James Brown dance party with free Stella beer on Saturday from 7:30pm – 9:30pm, open to all ticket holders!
“I was born in New York City on a Monday…” This furious, low-budget crime picture dates from the golden age of Blaxploitation, when the genre was mining Hollywood’s past for stock narratives that could be given new and politically radical resonances. Black Caesar reworks the Hollywood gangster film, but the story—a poor black shoeshine boy takes out a corrupt mob boss, only to accept the white man’s power structures when he himself gains control—strikes a closer and more sensitive nerve. By the time Brown recorded the movie’s soundtrack, including the classic “Down and Out in New York City,” his music was evolving into an early and hugely influential form of funk, and its jumpy, aggressive rhythms meld seamlessly with the film’s claustrophobic urban setting.
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