Maybe it's just because I love movies about movies, but Mario Van Peeble's Baadasssss! is one of the movies I'm most looking forward to seeing this summer. Here's Roger Ebert's review.
Though it's limited distrubition probably means I'll have to wait for the DVD.
It would be nice if movies were always made the way they are in Truffaut's "Day for Night," with idealism and romance, or Minnelli's "The Bad and the Beautiful," with glamor and intrigue. But sometimes they are made the way they are in Mario Van Peebles' "Baadasssss!" -- with desperation, deception and cunning. Here is one of the best movies I've seen about the making of a movie -- a fictionalized eyewitness account by Mario of how and why his father, Melvin Van Peebles, made "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song," a landmark in the birth of African-American cinema.
Though it's limited distrubition probably means I'll have to wait for the DVD.
| :: posted by Donald Melanson, 6/11/2004 | Comments (3) Links to this post |
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