How to Eat your Watermelon in White Company
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- Synopsis
- Melvin Van Peebles created a new style of African-American filmmaking in 1971, when on a shoestring budget he made Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, a violent action picture about a sex-show stud on the run from the police that below the surface ......
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- Starring
- Dick Hehmeyer
- Director(s)
- Joe Angio
- Distributor(s)
- Breakfast At Noho
- MPAA Rating
- Not Yet Rated
- Runtime
- 85 min.
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Variety | Ronnie ScheibAdd Critic to Favorites
Lively interviews from a wide range of people, a wealth of excerpted footage stretching over decades, and a story packed with legend are served up by helmer Joe Angio with a verve mirroring the restless creativity of the film's subject.Read the full review
The New York Times | A.O. ScottAdd Critic to Favorites
The film chronicles an astonishing career...Mr. Van Peebles is that rarest of modern creatures: a free man.Read the full review
The Onion (A.V. Club) | Nathan RabinAdd Critic to Favorites
Angio captures the outlandish twists and turns of Van Peebles' life with humor, color, and a welcome lightness of touch.Read the full review
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