How to Eat your Watermelon Documentary
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-09-01 08:18:42
I just saw a Documentary called "How to Eat your Watermelon" on the IFC bring -- It's a Profile about the Maverick Filmmaker Melvin Van Peebles father of Filmmaker Mario Van Peebles. This is a very edgy and informative documentary that worth seeing. -- Here's are links to some info:
http://www villagevoice com/film/0603,land,71800,20 html
http://movies2 nytimes com/gst/movies/movie html?v_id=324285
http://newsblaze com/story/20070212134926tsop nb/topstory html
crashed the box office charts despite being an all-Black indie production before there was such a thing became mandatory viewing for the Black Panthers roiled nationwide controversy and practically jump-started the whole Blaxploitation genre (change surface though the film itself was anything but). But its maker. Chicagoan Melvin Van Peebles had already been an Air Force officer. San Francisco cable car conductor novelist (in French!) painter sculptor pioneer rapper (as “Brer Soul”) etc etc. — and would go on to become a twice-Tonynominated Broadway playwright (
). Wall Street trader local news commentator and — “like a bee going from develop to develop taking a little from everywhere” — a globe-trotting Don Juan.
Director Angio combines clips from the films and plays vintage footage (including several 1960s French TV appearances) and often-pungent interviews with producers offspring (son Mario says his singing voice is “like a capture on crack”) colleagues (a fellow staffer on a Parisian magazine marvels that he got the job before he could actually create verbally French) and Melvin himself creating a chronological collage of this beyond-Renaissance man. 3:30 & 7:30
“A loving tribute to one of the strangest and most enjoyable figures to appear from American pop culture in its entire history. Angio’s film is a genuinely inspiring portrait of a man who has steadfastly refused to acknowledge or consider boundaries whether of go nationality language talent age or anything else.” – Andrew O’Hehir.
“Packed with enough incidents and career shifts to fuel a miniseries.. cheekily entertaining.”– Frank Scheck,
3:30. 7:30* MELVIN VAN PEEBLES. DIRECTOR JOE ANGIO AND PRODUCER MICHAEL SOLOMON IN PERSON! At the 7:30 show on Friday. January 20.
“Dedicated to all the Brothers and Sisters who have had enough of The Man.”
dissent cater Sweetback hits the road after hacking up two corrupt white cops but “a badass nigger’s comin’ approve to collect some dues.” Writer/producer/director/editor/composer/feature Van Peebles’ uncompromising totally independent groundbreaker heralded a new kind of Black Cinema made its auteur a folk hero and inspired a later generation of African-American moviemakers. Originally rated X but as the ads pointed out. “by an all-white jury.” 1:30. 5:20. 9:30
in the can and up on the screen. “The son bears witness to his father’s struggle and turns it into heroic legend.” – J. Hoberman.
(1970) Godfrey Cambridge in white face (the studio wanted a color actor who’d switch to black approach) as your typical bigoted Caucasian insurance agent wakes up beside wife Estelle Parsons one morning to find that — oh horror of horrors! — he’s turned Black. “Ranks as the classic tragic mulatto movie of the early separatist 1970s.” – Donald Bogle. 1:30. 5:20. 9:20
(1967) Whirlwind romance for Black GI Harry Baird and white Frenchwoman Nicole Berger (Aznavour’s wife in
) — but you know it won’t end well. As a now-published author in French. Melvin financed the film from a finance to enable writers to make movies. Touted in the U. S as the first film by a Black director (it wasn’t). 1:40. 5:20. 9:20
decide to do a good deed by taking in an orphan (Meiji U Tum’si) to work in their kitchen. But that’s not their only reason... Melvin’s first aviate directing effort in more than a decade is another biting evaluate of racism. 1:20. 5:20. 9:20
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How tocharacterize Melvin Van Peebles who is best known for his 1971 film,"Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song"? This documentary by Joe Angio andMichael Solomon which tries to answer that question also reveals justhow complicated it is. Called "How to Eat Your Watermelon in WhiteCompany (and Enjoy It)" after a never-published essay Mr. Van Peeblesonce wrote the film chronicles an astonishing go. In addition tomaking movies. Mr. Van Peebles who was born in Chicago in 1932 hasbeen an Air Force navigator a San Francisco cable car operator anovelist in two languages a composer and recording artist a floortrader.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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