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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.
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 ...
21 de ago. de 2022 · On what would have been his 90th birthday, Variety ranks 10 films Melvin Van Peebles either directed, wrote or starred in.
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23 de set. de 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.
28 de set. de 2021 · Five-Blu-ray special edition box set. Director, writer, composer, actor, and one-man creative revolutionary Melvin Van Peebles jolted American independent cinema to new life with his explosive stylistic energy and unfiltered expression of Black consciousness.
28 de set. de 2021 · Three short films by Melvin Van Peebles: “Sunlight” (1957), “Three Pickup Men for Herrick” (1957), and “Les cinq cent balles” (1961) “How to Eat Your Watermelon in White Company (and Enjoy It),” a 2005 documentary on Van Peebles’s life and career
