PHOTOGRAPH BY SARAH PALMER
GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN
DECEMBER 8 – 14, 2021
The photographer Gordon Parks was the first Black director to make a major-studio feature: “The Learn-
ing Tree,” from 1969, an autobiographical drama about growing up in Kansas in the nineteen-twenties. It’s
screening in Anthology Film Archives’ near-complete retrospective of Parks’s films (through Dec. 11). Also
included are the TV movie “Solomon Northup’s Odyssey,” the bio-pic “Leadbelly,” the personal documen-
tary “Moments Without Proper Names,” and, of course, the Harlem-based private-eye thriller “Shaft.”
As New York City venues reopen, it’s advisable to confirm in advance the requirements for in-person attendance.
