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	Africana Reviews: Baadasssss
		Baadasssss itself is a maverick biography in which Melvin is seen as a man of almost super-heroic ambition, battling an indifferent universe and a hostile society comprised of nearly cartoonish doubters and exploiters.
		Baadasssss takes place in roughly the same era as Boogie Nights — a coincidence that is consonant with the porno auspices by which Melvin began the underground production of Sweetback.
		Baadasssss dreams about Melvin's endeavor while balancing the tall-tale nature of the story — the story of a pop culture miracle — with a fitting sense of desperation.
	www.africana.com /reviews/moviestv/mtv20040527baaadasss.asp (920 words)

	Baadasssss!
		Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song may not have been a very good film, but it was a cultural phenomenon.
		Melvin's hopes are raised and dashed several times, the worst shock coming after he got a drug dealer to finance the film, only to find out a few days later that the dealer had been arrested and was headed to prison.
		Baadasssss!, like Sweetback's Baadassss Song was made in a short time on a very low budget, but even with the paltry $1M budget, the film looks great, and held my interest start to finish.
	www.fakes.net /baadasssss.htm (1732 words)

	'Baadasssss!': Sweet, Mario (washingtonpost.com)
		Toward the end of "Baadasssss!" when "Sweet Sweetback" opens in Detroit, Mario has thoroughly invested the audience in Melvin's own success; we're rooting for the ragtag team of guerrilla filmmakers, who through ingenuity and arrogance have created a cultural watershed.
		The most troubling scene in both "Sweet Sweetback" and "Baadasssss!" is when Melvin forces his 13-year-old son to do a graphic sex scene with an older woman, a shockingly exploitative moment in both movies.
		As it stands, "Baadasssss!" is Mario's version of what it was, and as such it's worthy of attention, praise and proper respect.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A33188-2004Jun10.html (720 words)

	Baadasssss!
		With Mario in the role of Melvin, "Baadasssss!" chronicles the making of "Sweetback," which proved to be "a long and protracted struggle" (as they used to say back in the day).
		"Baadasssss!" is full of interesting characters, who deliver outstanding performances, such as Khleo Thomas of "Holes," as young Mario, Nia Long ("Boiler Room"), comedian David Alan Grier and the legendary actor, Ossie Davis.
		"Baadasssss!" is a movie about a lot of things: what it takes to be a successful moviemaker (somewhat like "Lost in La Mancha"); and relationships between people of color and whites 30 years ago.
	www.reelmoviecritic.com /rmc/B/baadassss.htm (978 words)

	Baadassss!
		This was the first film from a fl director that told a story from a fl man's perspective.
		It doesn't seem like a big deal now, but at that time, in the years before the original Shaft, this was unheard of.
		Baadasssss presents Van Peeble's as a driven man, forsaking nearly everything to get his movie finished.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/baadasssss.html (657 words)

	Printer Friendly Version - The 'Baadasssss!' guys (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		"Baadasssss!" - a semi-documentary by Mario Van Peebles that opens Friday - is based on his filmmaker father Melvin's memoir about the making of "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song," 33 years ago.
		Obsessed with completing "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song," Melvin is portrayed as someone who sacrifices family for work, even forcing the then 13-year-old Mario (played by Khleo Thomas) to take part in a sex scene.
		Mario says he went over a list of "grievances" with his father a few years ago and has made peace with aspects of his childhood that he couldn't understand while he was growing up.
	www.nydailynews.com /entertainment/v-pfriendly/story/195711p-169113c.html (640 words)

	Van Peebles captures his filmmaker father's 'Baadasssss!' soul
		"Baadasssss," the story of the making of that film, is not only a labor-of-love tribute from Mario Van Peebles to his father, but a paean to the spirit of independent filmmakers everywhere.
		While "Sweetback" was not the first experimental film to deal with the African American experience ("Shadows," "The Cool World," "Portrait of Jason" and "Putney Swope" were some of its predecessors), it was the first to be made by a fl filmmaker with a 50 percent minority crew and marketed directly to the fl community.
		"Baadasssss!" opens with Melvin Van Peebles, having completed "Watermelon Man," a Godfrey Cambridge comedy, discussing ideas for a follow-up project with his agent.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /movies/178349_baadasssssq18.html (590 words)

	Baadasssss! Movie Review - Baadasssss! Movie Trailer - The Boston Globe
		"Baadasssss!" is Mario Van Peebles's fond, tough-minded reconstruction of the trials Melvin Van Peebles endured while making the groundbreaking fl independent film "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song" in 1971.
		The unavoidable irony of "Baadasssss!" -- that it's a much better movie than the one it honors -- is one-upped by the fact that "Sweetback" was and will always be the more important film, a blurt of conscious rage that said things never before heard in movie theaters.
		"Baadasssss!" swirls with the excesses of Los Angeles in the late '60s, but it retains a tempered admiration for the few who held on to their convictions.
	www.boston.com /movies/display?display=movie&id=6915 (690 words)

	U-WIRE.com/FILM REVIEW: 'Baadasssss!' triumphant story of director's struggle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The story follows Melvin Van Peebles (Mario Van Peebles), Mario's Father, on his quest to finance and film a movie about a fl man who not only survives the entire length of the film but is also the hero.
		The film is titled "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song," and the title character takes vengeance out on his oppressors.
		While "Baadasssss!" is very much a drama, it has many humorous moments to break the film up.
	www.uwire.com /content/topae090304002.html (397 words)

	Van Peebles Inc.: Sweetback is Back with a Vengeance in "Baadasssss!"
		Sadly, one sequence of events that occurred during the making of "Sweetback" does not make it into "Baadasssss!" Apparently on the DVD version of his movie, Melvin noted he caught a venereal disease during the filming of the "Sweetback" sex scenes.
		In terms of "Baadasssss!," I think it's been interesting because when we played it in Germany, this guy in Berlin who didn't know much about American film, independent film, or anything about fl film, was moved by it.
		"Baadasssss!" then won the Critics Award at the Floating Festival with Roger Ebert, and that was 80-year-old guys from Florida.
	www.indiewire.com /people/people_040601peeb.html (1391 words)

	'Baadasssss!' chronicles making of 'blaxploitation' classic \| LJWorld.com
		By the time "Sweet Sweetback's" is finally completed, Peebles is "hemorrhaging cash." Then he learns the X-rating is preventing him from getting distribution, and even the few theaters who agree to show the film can't print the offensive title in newspapers or put it on a marquee.
		Aside from these insider looks at indie moviemaking, "Baadasssss!" gains its power through the emotional complexity of its central character.
		Ultimately, "Baadasssss!" is effective at detailing how guerilla filmmaking is not glamorous; sometimes it can be war.
	ljworld.com /section/arts/story/178980 (887 words)

	Baadasssss! (2004): Reviews
		What's fascinating is the way Mario, working from his father's autobiography and his own memories, has somehow used his first-hand experience without being cornered by it.
		Baadasssss is about feeling pain and frustration, about having a sense of purpose that overwhelms everything else, about great cost and great risk, the pain of isolation and the intoxicating effect of fighting against the odds.
		BaadAsssss Cinema has meat on its bones and analysis in its soul.
	www.metacritic.com /video/titles/baadasssss (1539 words)

	Blackflix.com: Interviews
		To underline the fact, Van Peebles, 71, ended his film with his hero character Sweetback escaping from the clutches of "the man" (the all-purpose villain) as the words, "A bad ass nigger is coming back to collect some dues," is superimposed across the screen.
		Baadasssss is based partly on Melvin Van Peebles’ book, Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song: Voices of Conscience.
		Baadasssss’ production experienced the trials and tribulations very similar to those that plagued Sweetback: little financing, no studio backing and a lot of help from close friends.
	www.blackflix.com /interviews/mario.vanpeebles.html (1049 words)

	calendarlive.com: 'Baadasssss!'
		In adapting his father's book on the film's making and in playing his father as well, Mario Van Peebles has done his parent proud and in the process has made his most accomplished film to date.
		"Baadasssss!" finds Melvin Van Peebles' agent (Saul Rubinek) urging him to sign a three-picture deal with Columbia before "Watermelon Man" is released.
		No wonder: It proved to be a misfired satire in which Godfrey Cambridge starred as a white bigot who one morning wakes up fl.
	calendarlive.com /movies/reviews/cl-et-thomas28may28,2,1551195.story (613 words)

	'Baadasssss!' a tribute and a gift (phillyBurbs.com) \| Movies
		With the entertaining and insightful "Baadasssss!," Mario has created a tribute to the battle his father, Melvin, waged in bringing "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song" (1971) to the screen.
		To make "Baadasssss!" - which opens in theaters today - Mario had to serve as writer and director in addition to starring as his father.
		With "Baadasssss!," the filmmaker created an intense portrait of an artist driven to extremes and at many times mistreating people, including a 12-year-old Mario who has a controversial role in the original film.
	www.phillyburbs.com /pb-dyn/news/80-06102004-314579.html (804 words)

	Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song : Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		I realize that there are a lot of people who want to be politically correct by saying that this is a ground breaking film.
		Sweet Sweetback´s Baadasssss Song is the granddaddy that started the whole movement.
		Melvin Van Peebles, directed, edited, wrote, produced, and stared in this movie he let his son Mario Van Peebles at the age of 10 have sex with a grown woman at the being of this movie and she was screeming his name in orgasim saying (SWEET SWEET BACK).
	www.pagenation.com /an/6304195400.html (1484 words)

	Mixed Reviews - Baadasssss! - reviewed by Gabriel Shanks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Although the young Van Peebles wants to emulate his father's economically-driven aesthetic (shot digitally for only $1 million) and the shit-kicking, take-no-prisoners attitude exemplified in the title, Mario has essentially created a warm hearted, carefully crafted paean to Dad.
		It's not overstating the case that Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song changed the independent film industry forever, broadening both its social and economic horizons.
		On a deeper level, however, we find that Melvin's obsessive need to achieve his goal is often coarsely brutal...but that fact doesn't diminish his accomplishment in the least.
	www.mixedreviews.net /maindishes/2004/baadasssss/baadasssss.shtml (846 words)

	Sweet Sweetback's Baad Asssss Song (1971) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		He agrees to be taken in to a police station as a suspect just to make a couple cops look good (because they are tolerant towards the cathouse he lives in).
		Although it is loaded with flaws, as one might expect from a low budget film from the era shot guerilla-style on the streets of Los Angeles, it is a hoot to watch.
		Still, for fans of weirdness and "so bad they're good" films, not to mention any blaxploitation fan with his or her weight in barbecued ribs, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song is a must see.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0067810 (1001 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song
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	Van Peebles is a 'Baadasssss' for Dad
		Watching all this in various states of wonder, bewilderment, excitement and resentment is Melvin Van Peebles' 13-year-old son Mario (played here by Khleo Thomas), who with his little sister Megan (Penny Bae Bridges) gets an education in more than filmmaking.
		Anyone who wants to examine "Baadasssss!" for a little psychological subtext need look no further than the scene in which Mario is pretty much ordered by his father to appear in what would become the notorious opening scene, in which we see the very young Sweetback losing his virginity to a much older hooker.
		"Baadasssss!" may overstate the case for Melvin Van Peebles' being the liberator of fl cinema and the godfather of independent film, but it is still more nuanced and displays far more filmmaking finesse than Mario's previous films as a director, which include "Panther" and "New Jack City."
	www.freep.com /entertainment/movies/baad11_20040611.htm (696 words)

	Bucket Reviews
		The only way he could do this would be to self-finance his own work, the method in which most all indies are spawned nowadays.
		Had Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song not sold out at the later show on its opening day, this movie would probably not have been made.
		Whether Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song was a great film or a crappy one, pornography or brutality, provocative or nonchalant, is insignificant to the effectiveness of this flick.
	www.bucketreviews.com /baadasssss.html (1092 words)

	Amazon.com: Baadasssss Cinema - A Bold Look at 70's Blaxploitation Films (2003): DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Through their piercing perspectives, plus commentary by the likes of film critic Elvis Mitchell and (of course) cult aficionado and filmmaker Quentin Tarantino, Baadasssss Cinema makes a persuasive argument that 1970s blaxploitation was both an American achievement and a temporary fix for Hollywood's then-economic doldrums.
		Baadasssss Cinema also explains the appeal of warhorse movie genres--gangster films, horror--to the blaxploitation industry, discusses African American ambivalence in the '70s toward the films' new racial stereotypes, and makes sense of blaxploitation's commercial burnout once Hollywood got hold of the formula.
		Richard Roundtree, Gloria Hendry and Fred Williamson all discuss the trials and triumphs of fl performers creating, for the first time, a complete fl identity on film. Quentin Tarantino,looking strangely pale, displays his goofy charm as he waxes rhapsodic about his first experience as a child attending his first fl exploit film.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00007CVSO?v=glance (1646 words)

	February 2003 \| blackfilm.com \| features \| reviews \| video vault \| baadasssss cinema
		These are some of the issues explored in the BaadAsssss Cinema Docurama which premiered in August of 2002 on the Independent Film Channel (IFC).
		Baaaad Asss is an hour long study of not only the movies of this genre but how they manifested themselves given the political and economic conditions of fls at that time.
		BaadAsssss Cinema begins with the movie that began this genre of films Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song.
	blackfilm.com /20030221/reviews/baadassssscinema.shtml (493 words)

	New York Daily News - Entertainment Columnists - Elizabeth Weitzman: Baadasssss! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In 1971, Melvin Van Peebles made "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song," a daring, racially driven drama that became a cult success almost in spite of itself.
		Three decades later, his son is very likely to find himself in a similar situation.
		Both public tribute and private therapy session, "Baadasssss!" should have been a self-conscious disaster.
	www.nydailynews.com /05-28-2004/entertainment/col/story/197813p-170634c.html (181 words)

	Baadasssss!
		In 1971, when he was on the verge of becoming one of the first major fl Hollywood directors, Melvin opted to take a risk, go against audience expectations, and shoot a controversial film instead.
		A lackluster matinee had him worried, but by that night, the line outside the theater was around the block and a sensation had begun.
		Mario's reverence both for his father, and for the material, shines through in every moment of BAADASSSSS!, resulting in a film that is as much a celebration of family as it is an ode to the craft of cinema itself.
	store.bigrockmedia.com /1133353.html (362 words)

	notcoming.com \| Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		It is popularly recognized as the first “blaxploitation” film, and is thus a cornerstone of fl cinema.
		Stereotypical fl characters are evident — pimps, hustlers, unemployed laymen — and their presence seems to parody to their popular depictions in film: at least this is the most apparent interpretation.
		The oppressive whites in the film are caricatures (and most, incidentally, are in the police); they torture Sweetback’s allies for clues, threaten with guns, and are racially motivated.
	www.notcoming.com /reviews/sweetback.html (822 words)

	A ‘Baadasssss!’ look at Melvin Van Peebles - AT THE MOVIES - MSNBC.com
		Melvin Van Peebles, who wrote, directed, edited and starred in the 1971 film credited with spawning the blaxploitation genre, was tired of seeing fls depicted solely as slaves, servants or shoeshine boys.
		“Baadasssss!” is at its best when Mario Van Peebles, as director, co-writer and star, re-enacts the low-budget, on-the-fly manner in which his dad cobbled the movie together.
		Melvin Van Peebles’ secretary (played in “Baadasssss!” by Joy Bryant) was dating band member Maurice White, and persuaded her boss to have the group perform the film’s background music.
	msnbc.msn.com /id/5054622 (778 words)

	celluloid eyes: Baadasssss! (2004) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		His movie, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, featured a character who fought back when corrupt cops tried to beat him up, and who most importantly did not get caught or die at the end of the movie.
		Because the commentary track is Mario and Melvin Van Peebles, going back and forth about various details in the movie, comparing the two movies and their memories of various events in the film.
		and Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song is that it is a pain in the ass to remember how many vowels I should be sticking in the word "badass" so I can spell the titles accurately.
	www.celluloideyes.com /blog/archive/000719.html (1030 words)

	Baadasssss! movie Review at The Z Review UK movie review
		It’s part documentary – using actual footage of the his dad’s film – but in a feature sort of way; and yet it’s also a son’s look down the family tree at where he came from and where he was going.
		This boiling pot of politics, filmmaking and self-discovery contains pervasive language and some strong sexuality/nudity, but "Baadasssss!" is one of the freshest and most honest films to come along in years.
		Not only is this one of the most important making-of dramatisations, it's also a powerful love letter from a son to his father.
	www.thezreview.co.uk /reviews/b/baadasssss.htm (922 words)

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