Starting tomorrow, the Film Society of Lincoln Center is screening all of iconic film and TV star Pam Grier's movies. Grier will also be appearing at a few of the screenings, including tomorrow night's screening of Jackie Brown, which will be preceded by a Q&A between Grier and Simon Doonan (there are still tickets!!).
Jackie Brown was Quentin Tarantino's 1997 full-length feature follow-up to Pulp Fiction, and his only script adapted from another writer's material. The film is a passionate tribute to Grier, whose roles as strong, take-no prisoners women in 1970s blaxploitation films Foxy Brown, Coffy, and Sheba Baby led Tarantino to dub her the first female action star.
Grier has credited Tarantino for helping revive her career—though the first time she met him, she said, "Yes, it was frightening! I thought he was a stalker. It was for Pulp Fiction, I'm going in and all my posters are on his wall. I said, 'Did you put this up for me?' He said, 'No, but I would have.'"
She'll also be at the Friday midnight screening of the Blacula sequel, Screem, Blacula, Scream. And before Saturday night's screening of Coffy, Grier will be doing a Q&A with director-producer Warrington Hudlin.
