Feature-length documentary on renegade filmmaker, novelist, musician and theater impresario, Melvin Van Peebles.
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Shelley R. Bonus | ... | Self |
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St. Clair Bourne | ... | Self |
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Janine Evrad | ... | Self (as Janine Euvrard) |
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Gébé | ... | Self |
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Dick Hehmeyer | ... | Newsreel Narrator (voice) |
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Gloria Jarecki | ... | Self |
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Henry Jarecki | ... | Self |
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Billy Jennings | ... | Self |
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Woodie King Jr. | ... | Self |
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Madeleine Martineau | ... | Self |
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Richard Milner | ... | Self |
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Feature-length documentary on renegade filmmaker, novelist, musician and theater impresario, Melvin Van Peebles.
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Very entertaining, often funny biography of the amazing Melvin Van Peebles, whose life includes writing successful novels in French, directing hit, uncompromised black films at a time when no one else was, directing Broadway musicals, and even a turn as a stock trader.
A wild, likable, if hard to figure out man, part genius, part showman and a bit of a con-artist, he seems (at least in this documentary) to have mellowed over the years.
Not quite a great film, it's not in depth enough, and is too openly enamored of it's subject, but a fun and historically interesting one. I'd re-visit it.