#Melvin Van Peebles

[tygerland]

Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971)

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[erosioni]

Melvin Van Peebles, NYC, 1971. Photo: Michael Ochs.

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[cartermagazine]

The Legendary Melvin Van Peebles

Filmmaker, writer, and composer, Melvin Van Peebles 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 difficult for a black American director to get work at the time. The film won an award at the San Francisco International Film Festival which gained him the interest of Hollywood studios, leading to his American feature debut Watermelon Man, in 1970.

Eschewing further overtures from Hollywood, he used the successes he had so far to bankroll his work as an independent filmmaker.

In 1971, he released his best-known work, creating and starring in the film Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song. He followed this up with the musical, Don’t Play Us Cheap, based on his own stage play, and continued to make films, write novels and stage plays in English and in French through the next several decades; his final films include the French-language film Le Conte du ventre plein (2000) and the absurdist film Confessionsofa Ex-Doofus-ItchyFooted Mutha (2008).

His son, filmmaker and actor Mario Van Peebles, appeared in several of his works and portrayed him in the 2003 biographical film Baadasssss!.

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[theamericanfriend1977]

Dennis Hopper, Phil Ochs, and Melvin Van Peebles at the Friends of Chile benefit concert, May 9, 1974. x

#sorry i'm losing my mind i didn't know dennis hopper (my favorite actor) and phil ochs (my favorite musician) were friends until right now #phil ochs #dennis hopper #melvin van peebles #an evening with salvador allende

[brokehorrorfan]

Scream Factory has revealed the specs for its The Shining (1997) Blu-ray, which will be released on March 12. Displeased with Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 adaptation, Stephen King took it upon himself to write the script based on his 1977 novel.

Mick Garris (The Stand, Sleepwalkers) directs the three-part miniseries. Steven Weber, Rebecca De Mornay, Melvin Van Peebles, Courtland Mead, and Wil Horneff star.

The Shining has been newly scanned in 2K from the interpositive with DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Stereo. Special features are listed below.

Special features:

Audio commentary by writer Stephen King, director Mick Garris, actors Steven Weber and Cynthia Garris, and select crew

11 additional scenes

Jack Torrance (Steven Weber) and his family (Rebecca De Mornay and Courtland Mead) move into the sprawling, vacant Overlook Hotel to get away from it all. Away from the alcoholism that derails Jack’s writing career. Away from the violent outbursts that mar Jack’s past. But Jack’s young son Danny knows better. He possesses a psychic gift called the shining — a gift the hotel’s vile spirits desperately want.

Pre-order The Shining.

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[undergroundrockpress]

1967

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[michelleumunna]

Melvin Van Peebles

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[citizenscreen]

Melvin Van Peebles (August 21, 1932 – September 21, 2021)

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[davidhudson]

Melvin Van Peebles, August 21, 1932 – September 21, 2021.

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[capnclem]

making 'do the right thing' dir. st.clair bourne (1989)

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[oldshowbiz]

The Books and Records of Melvin Van Peebles

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[onewordshy]

Just watched the film Don't Play Us Cheap (1972), an intriguing low-budget movie musical created by all around auteur artist Melvin Van Peebles, and I absolutely loved it! An intimate urban fantasy morality play, uplifting but still intelligent, the word I'd use to describe the film is "charismatic" because the love just oozed out of the screen.

I couldn't stop smiling the whole time, and the songs were fantastic!

It seems to be pretty obscure (it received an extremely limited release and even in my deepest theatre days I never heard the Broadway run mentioned) but the entire thing is on YouTube and I think people would really enjoy it.

#Don't Play Us Cheap #Melvin Van Peebles #Esther Rolle #Thomas Anderson #Mabel King #Joshie Jo Armstead #Rhetta Hughes #Avon Long #Joe Keyes #not gonna tag all of the actors but those were the major players #Youtube

[brokehorrorfan]

The 1997 version of Stephen King's The Shining will be released on Blu-ray on March 12 via Scream Factory. Displeased with Stanley Kubrick's 1980 adaptation, King took it upon himself to write the script based on his 1977 novel.

Mick Garris (The Stand, Sleepwalkers) directs the three-part miniseries. Steven Weber, Rebecca De Mornay, Melvin Van Peebles, Courtland Mead, and Wil Horneff star.

Special features are in progress and will be announced at a later date.

Jack Torrance (Steven Weber) and his family (Rebecca De Mornay and Courtland Mead) move into the sprawling, vacant Overlook Hotel to get away from it all. Away from the alcoholism that derails Jack's writing career. Away from the violent outbursts that mar Jack's past. But Jack's young son Danny knows better. He possesses a psychic gift called the shining — a gift the hotel's vile spirits desperately want.

Pre-order The Shining.

#the shining #stephen king #mick garris #steven weber #rebecca de mornay #scream factory #dvd #gift #horror #melvin van peebles #courtland mead #90s horror #1990s horror #stanley kubrick #the shining 1997