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Melvin Van Peebles, Sweet Sweetback director, dies at 89
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Hollywood filmmaker Melvin Van Peebles dies
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How Air Force Vet Melvin Van Peebles Changed Hollywood Forever
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Photo courtesy of Houston Cinema Arts Society Houston Cinema Arts Society and MFAH Virtual Cinemas will present a week long virtual run of Melvin Van Peebles s classic directorial debut,
The Story of a Three Day Pass. Van Peebles’ edgy, angsty, romantic first feature could never have been made in America. Unable to break into a segregated Hollywood, Van Peebles decamped to France, taught himself the language, and wrote a number of books in French, one of which,
Melvin Van Peebles’s edgy, angsty, romantic first feature could never have been made in America. Unable to break into segregated Hollywood, Van Peebles decamped to France, taught himself the language, and wrote a number of books in French, one of which, La permission, would become the stylistically innovative The Story of a Three Day Pass. Turner (Harry Baird), an African American soldier stationed in France, is granted a promotion and a three-day leave from base by his casually racist commanding officer and heads to Paris, where he finds whirlwind romance with a white woman (Nicole Berger) but what happens to their love when his furlough is over? Channeling the brash exuberance of the French New Wave, Van Peebles creates an exploration of the psychology of an interracial relationship as well as a commentary on France’s contradictory attitudes about race that is playful, sarcastic, and stingingly subversive by turns, and that laid the foundation for the scorched-earth cinematic rev