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...Harvard Film Archive on the evening of April 25. I am speaking, of course, of legendary African-American author, composer, and filmmaker Melvin Van Peebles. Of his formidable body of work, Van Peebles is best known for his seminal 1971 film “Sweet Sweetback’s Baad Asssss Song,” of which he was director, actor and writer...
...more versatile than Margot McLaughlin's Rosalinda; both, however, sang beautifully, and displayed a fine comic gift (but is this rare?) for exposing the stupidity and infidelity of men. John Middleton and Matt Greene were admirable as minor characters, the lawyer Blind and the infinitely sarcastic Frosch. Charles Baad had several great moments as the title character, the "Bat" who was out to settle an old debt of humiliation. Kristina Martin, who sang the role of the impostor Prince Orlovsky, the Bat's partner in crime, unfortunately wasn't quite on par with the others...
Although Lee's class is titled "Contemporary African American Cinema," the Film Archive has named its series "Black Cinema after Sweetback." The intimation is clear: modern Black film began in 1971 with Melvin Van Peebles's Sweet Sweetback's Baad Asssss Song...
Sweetback performs for a white audience, and they love it--until he challenges their authority. The story's the same for Van Peebles. Sweet Sweetback's Baad Asssss Song was a success, but the director's later work has been ignored. Hollywood exppropriated his style but not his message, when it created the blaxploitation genre. It took a new wave of independent filmmakers to bring the real Sweetback back to cinema...
...David W. Baad, 22, graduate student in Far Eastern studies at the University of Michigan. Son of a high-school principal, he last year edited the Michigan Daily, was vice president of his class...
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