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How to Eat Your Watermelon in White Company (and Enjoy It)
http://bmnet.muvies.com/reviews/2795-how-to-eat-your-watermelon-in-white-companyPart icon, part iconoclast, Melvin Van Peebles is a filmmaker with a history that's as fascinating as any of his motion pictures. This award-winning documentary (full of rare archival footage and unforgettable backstage stories from Spike Lee, Mario Van Peebles, Gil Scott-Heron, and others) is a carefully crafted tale of how a young black kid from Chicago ended up making one of the most controversial movies in American history, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, the film that sparked the Blaxploitation era in Hollywood. But the story hardly ends there. The documentary playfully traces Van Peebles's path from atom-bomb--ferrying Air Force pilot to French novelist to proto-rap singer to Wall Street options trader--a remarkable, rollicking journey that helps to explain where Sweet Sweetback actually got his song. How to Eat Your Watermelon in White Company (and Enjoy It) is an incisive, provocative and humorous portrait of an American original.
The Greatest Movie You Haven't Seen
