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March 13, 2007
Film. How to Eat Your Watermelon in White Company (and Enjoy It)
Film. How to Eat Your Watermelon in White Company (and Enjoy It): Melvin Van Peebles made his directorial debut in 1968 with The Story of a Three-Day Pass. He used a grant from the French Cinema Center to tell a story based on his novel La Permission, set in the throes of World War II. When a black American GI cashes in a three-day pass for the weekend, he meets a beautiful young Frenchwoman and falls desperately in love - only to find that a racist superior has demoted him for mixing with a white girl.
Since then, Van Peebles has been a defiant voice, challenging an unjust system, with his art as his only weapon. How to Eat Your Watermelon in White Company (and Enjoy It) is an inspiring documentary about Melvin Van Peebles, the renaissance man. He has been a French novelist, actor, director, screenwriter, playwright, composer and even a stock broker. Melvin is currently working on a double album with Madlib, Brer Soul Meets Quasimoto and a new film, Memories of an Ex-Dufus Mother.
Dork Recommends How to Eat Your Watermelon in White Company [Trailer]
Posted by james at March 13, 2007 05:35 PM