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Melvin Van Peebles stunned the world for the first time, with his debut feature, "The Story of a Three Day Pass." Filmed in France and selected as the French entry in the San Francisco Film Festival, ...( read more
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The story of "Baadasssss" sucks you in from the beginning, and you won't want to walk away. The story of Melvin Van Peebles' and the ordeal of making "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song" is absolutely riveting. One loves to watch him work, and the audience feels for him as he is beset by setbacks of all kinds. More importantly, this film portrays a key moment in movie history, giving the audience a greater sense of what movies are and what they can be.
Brilliant, ecstatic film making. One of the best films of the last ten years. Criminally under watched. It looks at father/son dynamics with amazing depth and that's only one of the many things it leads to thinking about.
This is a great movie about filmmaking....one almost as good as ED WOOD. It's about the making of cult classic SWEET SWEETBACK'S BAADASSSSS SONG made by the director's father, who the director portrays.
A great movie that is better then the film it tributes. It's not the late 80's or the early 90's anymore but this is probably the best piece of new african-american cinema I've seen from this decade.
This film is a must see, in my opinion. It is the story of Melvin Van Peebles (played by his son, Mario) who risked everything to make a movie about racial tensions and whatnot in the early 1970's. He said f-you to everyone who told him he couldn't live out his dream on his terms. This man did not take no for an answer. He bucked Hollywood, the machine, whatever.
I love the layering... Mario Van Peebles writes, produces, directs and stars in a film about his father (Melvin Van Peeples) writing, producing, directing and staring in a film. Reminds me of Tarantino, as he makes a film about a genre of film that also exists in the genre... if that makes sense.
This dramatization only makes the aura of the original film even more amazing. A solid effort on everyone's part.
I give this movie a thumbs for me and for everyone one of my friends... Its deffinately a great movie and I think everyone should know about it!
this is such a great movie and its so cool for me. mario peebles plays this guy making a movie. if you wanna make movies you HAVE to ese this. but watch otu theres some nudity and strong language in the hmovie so if you get offended by that dont go.
Oh, hell yes. Here we have Mario Van Peebles' engrossing bio-pic about his father Melvin, who single-handedly invented blaxploitation with the 1971 film "Sweet Sweetback's Badass Song." An unromanticized look at one man's quest to fulfill his filmmaking ambition, with Mario Van Peebles playing his own father and giving one of the best performances of the last five years in the process. Cinemaslave has long prided itself on being about one's passion for film; here's a movie brave enough to be about the same thing. A stunner.
Edgy, funny and inspiring. "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song" may have been a breakthrough film, but this film about how that film was made carries all that was great in its spirit into a film which is far more fun to watch.
An amazing homage from son to father. It shows the trials and tribulations of not only independent film making, but blaxploitation independent film making.
I love movies about movies, and this is one of the best. 'Baadasssss!' is a lovesong to filmmaking, but first and foremost, a touching tribute to a father from a son. Surprisingly, Mario Van Peebles doesn't idealize his dad Melvin: as the writer, director and star of the film, he crafts on honest portrait showing the real man, warts and all. A great underdog story. Nay, a great film.
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