JANUARY 6th was CHOSEN for historical reference but if you're a COLONIZED fart who hides THEIR own heritage you will have MISSED the inside joke. Did you know January 9, 1718 it was already going down?! MOVIE: POSSE with #MelvinVanPeebles #MarioVanPeebles #BlackTwitter
BLACK FOLKS WERE NATIVES TO AMERICA! Did you know #MelvinVanPeebles and son #MarioVanPeebles started in Posse? HISTORIC FACT!
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#MelvinVanPeebles Collection from #Criterion is showing a regional coupon for some and is down to just under $54 on Amazon:
https://amzn.to/493R4SO
#BluRay #Ad #PhysicalMedia #BluRays #BoutiqueBluRay #CultMovies #DiscConnected
9/23/1994
#TerminalVelocity
#DeranSarafian #DavidTwohy
#CharlieSheen #NastassjaKinski #JamesGandolfini #ChristopherMcDonald #MelvinVanPeebles
#StartsToday #filmsky
Melvin Van Peebles is worth the cost of production alone. God bless MVP. #MelvinVanPeebles
#OnThisDay in 2021, #MelvinVanPeebles, American stage and screen #actor, director (Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song; Sophisticated Gent), #composer, and novelist, died at 89.
#RIP 🥀🕯️
Mientras #SidneyPoitier rozaba las mejillas de la sobrina de Kate Hepburn en "Adivina quién en viene a cenar esta noche" #MelvinVanPeebles hacía el salto al sistema,
reclutaba talento "porno",se iba al ghetto,y filmaba olvidando las reglas, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song
#Cinesky
leaving packaging free of certificates and markings
#BluRay #PhysicalMedia #BluRays #BoutiqueBluRay #CultMovies #DiscConnected #Radiance #RadianceFilms #RobertAltman #JaneCurtin #JonCryer #MelvinVanPeebles #DennisHopper
Happy Birthday Melvin Van Peebles. (RIP) #HappyBirthdayMelvinVanPeebles #MelvinVanPeebles #Birthday #RestInPeace #RIPMalvinVanPeebles #Legends #Legend
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#TodayInNerdHistory #August21 #AnAmericanWerewolfInLondon #DirtyDancing #KennyRogers #KimCattrall #CarrieAnneMoss #HaydenPanettiere #ClarenceWilliamsIII #MelvinVanPeebles #CallanWhite #BasilPoledouris #Birthday
"Somebody once asked me, 'Melvin, how'd you get to the top?' It was simple. Nobody would let me in at the bottom."
🎞 Remembering #MelvinVanPeebles, who was #BOTD 21 August 1932. #Film #Filmmaking
The non-typo hashtag is #melvinvanpeebles
Choose one film a day from a great director. Name the film and director, and provide a still. Keep going for as long as you like.
Film: Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971)
Director: Melvin Van Peebles
#Filmsky #MelvinVanPeebles #MovieSky #Blaxploitation #Cinema #MovieChallenge #FilmChallenge
Drop a 🎥 if a Black film ever gave you language for your life.
This one’s for the storytellers who didn’t wait for permission to be legendary.
#BecauseOfMelvin #FreshSince79 #CulturalAlchemy #BlackFilmLegends #SweetSweetback #MelvinVanPeebles #DivineDisruption #ArtIsResistance
The Heliocentrics
B2- Telepathic Routine The Last Transmission (Now Again, 2014)
#melvinvanpeebles #spokenword
#theheliocentrics #shabakahutchings #psychedelic #dub #vinyl #fusion
Melvin Van Peebles, the "Godfather of Black Cinema," revolutionized film with Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (1971), paving the way for Black filmmakers. A bold storyteller in film, theater, and music, his legacy of innovation still inspires. #BlackHistoryMonth #MelvinVanPeebles
Melvin Van Peebles, the "Godfather of Black Cinema," revolutionized film with Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (1971), paving the way for Black filmmakers. A bold storyteller in film, theater, and music, his legacy of innovation still inspires. #BlackHistoryMonth #MelvinVanPeebles
Melvin Van Peebles, the "Godfather of Black Cinema," revolutionized film with Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (1971), paving the way for Black filmmakers. A bold storyteller in film, theater, and music, his legacy of innovation still inspires. #BlackHistoryMonth #MelvinVanPeebles
Watching #PamelaAnderson select her #Criterion picks—loved her choices—but all I could see on the shelf foreground, right ... #MelvinVanPeebles. Yas! 👊🏾
#filmsky #moviesky
Pen drawing of a heavily shadowed mustachioed man drawn on a black background.
On November 17, 1980, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song was screened at the London Film Festival. Here's a drawing of Melvin Van Peebles to celebrate!
#SweetSweetbacksBaadasssssSong #MelvinVanPeebles #ActionMovies #Grindhouse #IndieFilm #Art #PopArt #UndergroundFilm
Rest In Peace Mr. #MelvinVanPeebles — one of the trillest interviews I’ve ever conducted.
à la demande générale RT @UnFilmUnObjet:#RunningMovie #blackandproud #earthwindandfire #melvinvanpeebles in