How to Eat Your Watermelon in White Company

How to Eat Your Watermelon in White Company (2005)

  • 92% of critics liked it
    (12 reviews)

  • 80% of users liked it
    (347 ratings)

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 served as a call for revolution in the black… More

Unrated,
Directed By
Genres
Documentary, Television, Special Interest
In Theaters
Apr 7, 2005 Wide

Critic Reviews

  • V.A. Musetto, New York Post

    ... enlightening doc ...

  • Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News

    Angio's film is an excellent introduction, but it won't be long before you realize that his subject is too complex to be contained in a single admiring tribute.

  • Joshua Land, Village Voice

    How to Eat is finally nostalgic, albeit less so for Van Peebles, who at 73 remains active on multiple artistic fronts, than for a lost era when brash individualism and radical politics seemed to go hand in hand.

  • A.O. Scott, New York Times

    This documentary about the pioneering black filmmaker Melvin Van Peebles is nearly as mischevious and fascinating as its subject.

  • Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor

    Melvin Van Peebles gets the idolatrous treatment in this documentary by first-time director Joe Angio.

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