The Film That Made âSweet Sweetbackâs Baadasssss Songâ Possible
Melvin Van Peebles had to go to France to make âThe Story of a Three Day Pass,â the tale of a Black soldier on leave thatâs full of bold directorial choices.
Nicole Berger and Harry Baird in Melvin Van Peebles’s debut feature.Credit.Sigma III Corporation
By Nicolas Rapold
May 6, 2021
I donât think anyone who sees the title âSweet Sweetbackâs Baadasssss Songâ forgets it. The eye-popping film made Melvin Van Peebles a pioneer of 1970s American cinema and pure independent hustle. But a few years earlier, Van Peebles directed his first trailblazer in France: âThe Story of a Three Day Pass,â his feature debut, which was released commercially in 1968 and is opening at Film Forum on Friday in a new restoration.
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“WE WUZ ROBBED (AGAIN!)” is how Spike Lee marketed a set of limited-edition
Da 5 Bloods posters after Delroy Lindo failed to garner a Best Actor Oscar nomination for his role in the movie. From snubs for Michaela Coel’s exceptional
I May Destroy You at the Golden Globes to Garrett Bradley’s exquisite
Time at the Academy Awards, this year was a predictable repeat of Black filmmakers and performers going unrecognized by Hollywood’s institutional accolades. While
Da 5 Bloods was vastly praised by critics and audiences, its singular Oscar appearance, a nomination and not a win, was for Best Original Score. Apart from the geographic shift to Vietnam, the movie’s narrative about Black veterans plays to Lee’s usual, and well-loved, thematic and stylistic habits, among them the double-dolly shot, in which both actor and camera are placed on dollies to give the impression
I m not the Captain s Uncle Tom! Maybe yes, maybe no? Janus Films has released a brand new trailer for the 4K restoration of Melvin Van Peebles 1968 film
The Story of a Three-Day Pass, also known as
La permission in French. The film stars
Harry Baird as Turner, an African-American solider stationed in France who is granted a promotion and a three-day leave from base. He ends up in Paris and falls in love with a white woman, played by
Nicole Berger. But what happens to their love when his furlough is over? He s eventually demoted for fraternizing with a white girl , of course, in this exploration of the psychology of an interracial relationship as well as a commentary on France s contradictory attitudes about race. The new 4K restoration was created by IndieCollect, in consultation with Mario Van Peebles, with support from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. And it will play in cinemas in NY & LA starting in May, for anyone in town who wants to see this shiny new
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Happy Saint Valentine’s Day
By Kathy Monnin - Versailles News
Who was Saint Valentine? It appears that there were at least 12 men named Valentine and proclaimed saints according to the Roman Catholic Church roster of saints, so differentiating them gets a bit sketchy, however it seems the first Valentine was a priest during the rule of Emperor Claudius II. Wanting an unmarried military, Claudius outlawed marriages and engagements, however Valentine secretly married couples, that is, until he was discovered and beheaded on Feb. 14, 270 AD.
With at least a dozen Saint Valentine’s it is little wonder that he is the patron saint of many things, such as beekeepers, epilepsy, engaged couples, happy marriages, fainting, as well as the plague. There was even a Pope Valentine, who served only 40 days around the year 827.