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Each facet of Van Peebles’s renegade genius is on display in this collection of four films, a tribute to a transformative artist whose caustic social observation, radical formal innovation, and uncompromising vision established a new cinematic model for Black creative independence.
- The Story of a Three Day Pass
Melvin Van Peebles’s edgy, angsty, romantic first feature...
- Don’t Play Us Cheap
Melvin Van Peebles’s film version of his own Tony...
- Watermelon Man
Melvin Van Peebles’s only foray into Hollywood filmmaking,...
- The Story of a Three Day Pass
Melvin Van Peebles (born Melvin Peebles; August 21, 1932 – September 21, 2021) was an American actor, filmmaker, writer, and composer. He worked as an active filmmaker into the early 2020s. His feature film debut, The Story of a Three-Day Pass (1967), was based on his own French-language novel La Permission and was shot in France ...
23 set 2021 · In many ways, the four Melvin Van Peebles works collected in the Criterion box have little in common: a French drama, a broad comedy, a ragged indie, a raucous musical.
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21 ago 2022 · On what would have been his 90th birthday, Variety ranks 10 films Melvin Van Peebles either directed, wrote or starred in.
13 ott 2021 · When Melvin Van Peebles died at the age of 91 only weeks before the release of the Criterion Collection’s new box set celebrating his most influential films, he left behind an astonishing legacy as a true innovator.
6 ott 2021 · Each facet of Van Peebles’s renegade genius is on display in this collection of four films, a tribute to a transformative artist whose caustic social observation, radical formal innovation, and uncompromising vision established a new cinematic model for Black creative independence.
