How to Eat Your Watermelon in White Company (and Enjoy It)
2005 Documentary Not Rated 85 Minutes
In Theaters | N/A | |||
On 4K UHD | Not Available | |||
On Blu-ray | Not Available | |||
On DVD | June 5, 2007 |
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Multi-talented and prolific, Melvin van Peebles defies categorization, boasting a life and career as diverse and unexpected as the art he's best known for creating. A trailblazer of the tallest order who has at turns made his living as a filmmaker, a pilot, a novelist and a stockbroker, van Peebles was never deterred by opportunity that failed to knock; he'd simply build his own door and get on with it. After Hollywood rejected his early filmmaking efforts, his self-produced 1971 feature film, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, earned more than $10 million at the box office and indelibly changed independent cinema forever.
A pioneer of rap music, a Tony-nominated playwright and a civil rights activist then and now, van Peebles' remarkable life story is playfully and candidly chronicled, illuminating an artist and a man whose groundbreaking impact on art, politics and pop culture remains, forty-five years after the release of Sweet Sweetback, as relevant as ever.
Not Rated.
Released by Legacy Image/RLJ. See more credits.