Plot: In 1971, filmmaker Melvin Van Peebles released his third film, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, which he wrote, directed, and scored. Despite boasting an all-black cast, an X rating, a low budget, and a decidedly non-Hollywood approach to ... Read More
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Despite the fact that Jackass Number Two is the most popular movie in America this week, some people around the country aren't all that happy to be showing the crude new release. Over the weekend, I told you how a theater owner in Hoopeston, Illinois...
Mario Van Peebles stars in and directs this film about his father Melvin's struggle to make his landmark 1971 movie, 'Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song,' made despite resistance from the white establishment.
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Melvin Van Peebles is a genius; that's a fact, not a compliment. If it were a compliment, I'd have used an exclamation point at the end of that sentence, and I'm really not a big enough fan of his work to do so. What I am, though, is an admirer of his...

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