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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, as it was ...
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Melvin Van Peebles, all'anagrafe Melvin Peebles [2] ( Chicago, 21 agosto 1932 – New York, 21 settembre 2021 [3] ), è stato un attore, sceneggiatore, regista, produttore cinematografico, compositore, montatore, pittore, giornalista e scrittore statunitense . È considerato il fondatore del genere blaxploitation, grazie al suo film Sweet ...
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. Yet every single...
13 ott 2021 · Blu-ray Review: Melvin Van Peebles: Essential Films. on the Criterion Collection. Criterion’s latest multi-film box set is a loaded showcase for a great and lesser-known American maverick. by Jake Cole. October 13, 2021. When Melvin Van Peebles died at the age of 91 only weeks before the release of the Criterion Collection’s new ...
Directed by Melvin Van Peebles • 1972 • United States Starring Joe Keyes Jr., Rhetta Hughes, Avon Long. Melvin Van Peebles’s film version of his own Tony Award–nominated Broadway musical is a bold blend of theater and nervy, New Wave–inflected cinematic invention. A cast of Black stage and screen...
