Word: distributor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Once the filming was finished, Van Peebles and Sweetback had another round of problems: no distributor would take a chance on the film. Only two theaters in the country would book it. When the talk shows blacked him out, and newspapers ignored Sweetback, Van Peebles took to the street corners "with friends, and chicks I was sleeping with," and passed out handbills touting the film. Van Peebles' fast talk, plus audience word of mouth, made it a limited success. But that was enough. Sweetback will reopen next month in 60 theaters in the greater New York area alone; another...
...Idea and $1,000. While he was still at N.Y.U., Sanford singled out the food-service industry as ripe for consolidation. He noted that restaurants, hotels, hospitals and other institutions that serve food often have to buy their supplies from a number of sources-meat from one distributor, fish and seafood from another, produce from still another. Sanford sensed the need for an all-in-one service that would provide a complete line of foods-from goose to mousse. To get a grasp of the gossip and personalities in the industry that he had chosen, he bought three years...
...some scenes of nudity and scattered obscenities. The result was that some kids who went to the festival by themselves needed their parents to get into the movie. Gimme Shelter, a documentary about the Rolling Stones, also received an R originally, but was given a GP after the distributor excised a few familiar expletives from the sound track...
...motorcycle and horror genres in favor of remakes of Les Miserables, A Tale of Two Cities and Camille. All three are fit fare for the family trade. Arkoff is not alone in his judgment that there is a backlash against explicit sex on film. Even freewheeling New York City Distributor Donald S. Rugoff admits to hesitation over an R rating. "I never bought a film before with ratings in mind," he says, "but I do now. The hassle just isn't worth...
...should be vehemently denied that this is a film that speaks to the heart or mind of the American black militant; and it should be emphasized that it fails solely because of its creator's ineptitude, not because of studio interference or distributor cutting. Van Peeples doesn't know either politics or people, so his agit-prop is neither uplifting or arousing-only sickening. And it smells like a phony...