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He was best known for "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song" one of the most influential movies of the 1970s.

NEW YORK (AP) — A movie year of fits-and-starts, delays and reversals has sometimes been difficult to track. Knowing just where and how a new movie premieres has become a

The Story of a Three Day Pass All events are subject to change due to weather or other concerns. Please check with the venue or organization to ensure an event is taking place as scheduled. Photo courtesy of Houston Cinema Arts Society Houston Cinema Arts Society and MFAH Virtual Cinemas will present a week long virtual run of Melvin Van Peebles's classic directorial debut, The Story of a Three Day Pass. Van Peebles’ edgy, angsty, romantic first feature could never have been made in America. Unable to break into a segregated Hollywood, Van Peebles decamped to France, taught himself t...

Tweet Share After World War II, as countries that were once occupied by the Nazis opened up to American influence, French movie theaters were flooded with Hollywood movies they hadn’t been able to see during the war. This attempt at a kind of cultural imperialism had an unintended consequence: French filmmakers were singularly taken with the B-movie marginalia of American cinema, absorbing forgotten Westerns and hard-boiled detective pictures that would eventually inspire the French New Wave’s riffs on codified and recognizable movie genres.  The rest is, of cours...

Micheaux was one of the great trailblazers in film history, but the industry has yet to fully appreciate his legacy. Time to change that.