1971 - Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song
Movie of the Year: 1971
Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song
The Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song Podcast
The Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song podcast brings Ryan, Mike, and Greg to one of 1971's most radical and uncompromising films. Melvin Van Peebles wrote, directed, produced, scored, edited, and starred in this landmark independent work — entirely outside the Hollywood system. The result is a film unlike any other in the bracket. Above all, it challenges every assumption about who gets to make movies, and why.
This week, the Taste Buds dig into three major threads: the film as a…
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