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Tag Archive for 'Melvin Van Peebles'

Love & Basketball, Mona Lisa & More Coming to The Criterion Collection September 2021

June 15th, 2021 by Aaron Neuwirth

This September, Gina Prince-Bythewood’s groundbreaking coming-of-age film and beloved sports romance Love & Basketball will join the Criterion Collection in a new restoration. Never before available on home video, the genre-blending judo tale Throw Down is a perfect introduction to Hong Kong’s most prolific and offbeat auteur, Johnnie To. Luchino Visconti’s most savagely subversive film, The Damned traces the rot of […]

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The Criterion Collection To Deliver The One-Man Revolution: Melvin Van Peebles: Four Films

June 10th, 2021 by Aaron Neuwirth

Presenting the latest box set from The Criterion Collection: Melvin Van Peebles: Four Films. Director, writer, composer, actor, and one-man creative revolutionary Melvin Van Peebles jolted American independent cinema to new life with his explosive stylistic energy and unfiltered expression of Black consciousness. Though he undeniably altered the course of film history with the anarchic […]

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