In the year-long series Sounds Of Blaxploitation, Craig D. Lindsey plays the hits that defined a genre, drawing connections between the music of the moment and the films that gave it a platform. With ...
In 1971, filmmaker-musician-dramatist-commodities trader Melvin Van Peebles launched a movie revolution with his über-low-budget, highly political indie flick, Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song.
Melvin Van Peebles, whose low-budget 1971 phenomenon, “Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song” — an X-rated film about a Black revolutionary’s survival on the run — proved a milestone of independent and ...
In 1971, the director Melvin Van Peebles released "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song," an X-rated borderline porn film with a microscopic budget, an indecipherably choppy narrative style and an almost ...
In 1971, Melvin Van Peebles' "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song" became the top-grossing independent film of the year. "Baadasssss," the story of the making of that film, is not only a labor-of-love ...
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