Glasstire (Texas visual art)

"The 2024 Houston Cinema Arts Festival is presenting an array of narrative, documentary, and experimental film programs over 11 days in venues around the city. Among its special presentations is a rare screening of a provocative social satire and political polemic disguised as a thriller from 1973. The Spook Who Sat By The Door is an outlier in the history of Black independent cinema that hasn’t been seen or acknowledged enough since its stifled theatrical release more than 50 years ago. The festival’s upcoming presentation at The DeLuxe Theater on Tuesday, Nov. 12, at 7:30 pm is one of only a handful of special screenings in the country of the film’s new digital restoration, making this a very rare opportunity to see it at its best and also to gain insight from the women who are shepherding its legacy. Natiki Hope Pressley, daughter of writer Sam Greenlee, and Nomathandé Dixon, daughter of director Ivan Dixon, will be in attendance for a post-screening discussion. I had the pleasure of speaking in advance with both of these guests about the film’s making, their fathers, and their own efforts to bring this buried treasure to light."