Sweet Sweetback?s Baadasssss Song

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Filmmaker: Melvin Van Peebles

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Sweetback is the story of a pimp who kills two policemen who had been beating a black militant. Using his street-wise survival skills, he eludes his pursuers and escapes to Mexico. Designed as a cathartic experience for blacks and a consciousness-expanding one for whites, Melvin Van Peebles? ground-breaking film Sweetback is a milestone in American Cinema. Listed by some as one of the ten most important American films ever made, Sweetback has elicited worldwide controversy and acclaim. Its outrageousness has shown other filmmakers that they can create from their own experiences, outside the traditional system. Running time: 97 min, Year released: 1971 Close captioned?: N, Color?: Y Avail. formats: 16mm,VHS ISBN: 1-55974-292-5 Language: English, Subtitled?: N For classroom?: Y, Study Guide?: N Grade level: 7th and up Reviews: "These moments represent personal cinema at its best -- one man, telling it like he sees it, his dream of liberation unadulterated by studio pressures or commercial considerations." -- Paul D. Zimmerman, Newsweek "...among the strongest protest films I've ever seen -- harrowing, riveting, seething with pure black rage, humor and defiance, and justifiaably graphic in its violence, sexual scenes and language." --William Wolf, Cue "...a film that doesn't compromise." --Gene Siskel, Chicago Tribune"The first truly revolutionary black film." --Huey Newton "...it is a vision [that] black people alone will really understand in all of its profane and abrasive substance..." --Clayton Riley, The New York Times "...the effect is like an electric shock that constantly rechargeds itself from image to image." --Kevin Kelly, The Boston Globe "...for the first time in cinematic history in American, a movie speaks out of an undeniable black consciousness." --Sam Washington, Chicago Sun-Times "...a highly personal, highly emotional cry of anger." --Mary Knoblauch, Chicago Today Other Credits: A Melvin Van Peebles Production Starring: Melvin Van Peebles, Simon Chuckster, Hubert Scales, John Dullaghan, Rhetta Hughes Photographed by Bob Maxwell Music by Earth, Wind & Fire Produced, Written and Directed by Melvin Van Peebles

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