The life and career of photographer, writer, director, and composer Gordon Parks.The life and career of photographer, writer, director, and composer Gordon Parks.The life and career of photographer, writer, director, and composer Gordon Parks.
Duke Ellington
- Self
- (archive footage)
Ben Webster
- Self
- (archive footage)
Coretta Scott King
- Self
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- All cast & crew
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Gordon Parks: Those moments without proper names - where terror is told in the wrinkling old faces and patched coats of old men smothering slowly inside the events of grander men.
- SoundtracksAdagio for Strings
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Hate to come across as Freddy Philistine here, especially in the face of such obvious visual/literary artistry, but I'm immediately suspicious of a retrospective on the life of the first notable, American, black film maker that largely leaves out the film making! How come scenes from "Learning Tree" make the cut but not "Shaft" or, dare I even say it? "Superfly"? Is Parks ashamed of being a pioneer of the Blaxploitation movement? If so, why? Is he saying that the Hollywood part of his life is somehow extraneous to the rest of it? If so, then that's kinda pretentious, isn't it?
Bottom line: An incomplete or, if you're less kind, a beautifully superficial retrospective. Solid C.
Bottom line: An incomplete or, if you're less kind, a beautifully superficial retrospective. Solid C.
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- Gordon Parks: Moments Without Proper Names
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By what name was Moments Without Proper Names (1987) officially released in Canada in English?
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