A Tribute to Pam Grier at the St. Louis International Film Festival

On Nov.3, 2017 SLIFF paid tribute to the legendary Pam Grier, star of such blaxploitation classics as “Foxy Brown” and “Coffy,” and presented her with the fest’s annual Women in Film Award. Grier also co-stared in the fest’s opening-night film, the locally shot “Bad Grandmas,” and she participated in a Q&A at that Nov. 2 screening. The tribute program put the spotlight exclusively on the actress. The evening included this highlight reel of Grier’s filmography, assembled by Tom Stockman and Wyatt Weed, the award presentation, and a career-spanning interview conducted by Novotny Lawrence, author of “Blaxploitation Films of the 1970s: Blackness and Genre.” Following the interview, the fest screened “Jackie Brown,” Quentin Tarantino’s 1997 crime thriller. In his book “Opening Wednesday at a Theater or Drive-in Near You,” critic Charles Taylor wrote that “Jackie Brown” provided the actress with her finest part: “Grier essays the role with incredible grace and goes beyond it, making the movie an elegy for a career that should have leapt beyond the tawdry confines of blaxploitation…. It’s likely that most movies would have been too small to contain the magnificence of Pam Grier. The crime is that they never even tried.”

Видео A Tribute to Pam Grier at the St. Louis International Film Festival канала Wyatt Weed