SHAFT (1971) at Pop's Art Theater | Presented by Griot Arts

Name: SHAFT (1971) at Pop's Art Theater | Presented by Griot Arts
Start: 2026-02-04T19:00:00-06:00
End: 2026-02-04T21:00:00-06:00
Location: Pop's Art Theater

Schedule

Wed Feb 04 2026 at 07:00 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

Pop's Art Theater | Rochester, MN

SHAFT (1971) screens one night only at Pop's Art Theater as part of our 3nd annual "Through the Black Lens" film series, presented in partnership with Griot Arts!
Tickets available now at www.popsarttheater.com
TRAILER:

While the Black Power movement was reshaping America, trailblazing director Gordon Parks made this groundbreaking blockbuster, which helped launch the blaxploitation era and introduced a new kind of badder-than-bad action hero in John Shaft (Richard Roundtree, in a career-defining role), a streetwise New York City private eye who is as tough with criminals as he is tender with his lovers. After Shaft is recruited to rescue the kidnapped daughter of a Harlem mob boss from Italian gangsters, he finds himself in the middle of a rapidly escalating uptown vs. downtown turf war. A vivid time capsule of gritty seventies Manhattan that has inspired sequels and multimedia reboots galore, the original Shaft is studded with indelible elements—from Roundtree’s sleek leather fashions to the iconic funk and soul score by Isaac Hayes.
1971 | 100 min. | R | USA
Dir. Gordon Parks
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Pop's Art Theater and Griot Arts are proud to announce the second of "Through the Black Lens," an annual program centering on Black voices in film. This year's series, "Black Power & Pulp: The Radical Legacy of Blaxploitation" takes a look at the films of one of Black cinema's most lucrative, influential and controversial movements.