Melvin Van Peebles News

An unusually solid year for the Tribeca Film Festival , the post-9/11 creation formed by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff fared a much more manageable list of 85 features compared to the unwieldy slate of years past, resulting in a wealth of high quality films and events around lower Manhattan.

Sunday, November 22, 2009 Main Source - " Breaking Atoms: The Original Elements From Steady Bloggin ': " Hooray for bootlegs.

"Confessions of a Ex-Doofus- Itchyfooted Mutha" A one-man show from director Melvin Van Peebles , who spins a crazy coming-of-age tale while narrating and playing the lead role - and if you think a filmmaker in his late 70s playing an adolescent changes the movie, you're right.

"Confessions of a Ex-Doofus-Itchy Footed Mutha," with Melvin Van Peebles, Stephanie Weeks, Glen Turner, Teddy Hayes, Alfred Preisser, Louis Johnson, Tamiko White, U-Savior Washington and Mario Van Peebles.

Of the folks Ia TMve interviewed, Melvin Van Peebles may hold the distinction of most peculiar opening gambit.

The life of indie-filmmaking icon Melvin Van Peebles has already been dramatized in Baadasssss! and documented in How to Eat Your Watermelon in White Company , so he must have felt compelled to make up a new one for this fanciful autobiography .

Truth or fiction? Art or self-indulgence? What difference does it make? Confessions of an Ex-Doofus-Itchyfooted-Mutha is another classic film title from the director of Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song .

Actor-filmmaker Melvin Van Peebles is 77. Singer Kenny Rogers is 71. Actor Clarence Williams III is 70.

Melvin Van Peebles has been called a renaissance man, displaying his multi-genre talents writing screenplays, novels, plays and music, in addition to acting in and directing feature films.

Melvin Van Peebles-filmmaker, playwright, composer, crooner, ladies' man, and living legend-returns to the screen with this picaresque yarn about a boy from Chicago who wants to see the world and... Melvin Van Peebles-filmmaker, playwright, composer, crooner, ladies' man, and living legend-returns to the screen with this picaresque yarn about a boy ...

The cinema is just one medium in which the multi-talented Melvin Van Peebles has distinguished himself.

"Confessions of a Ex-Doofus-Itchy Footed Mutha" is probably Melvin Van Peebles 's most personal film since "Sweet Sweetback's Baad Asssss Song" in 1971, which is a mixed blessing.

Q: I remember a movie from the 1970s, I think. It was about a white middle-class family and the husband wakes up one morning and he has become a black man.

Acclaimed film director, actor, playwright and composer, Melvin Van Peebles, director of the groundbreaking 1971 black film Sweet Sweetback's Badass Song , has worn many creative hats in his extraordinary career.

This last roundup of memorable voices at the Calabash literary festival in Jamaica is about us - the second of the big reasons I come.