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BaadAsssss Cinema
Directed by
Isaac Julien
Produced by
Paula Jalfon
Colin MacCabe
Caroline Kaplan
Written by
Isaac Julien
Adam Finch
Starring
Samuel L. Jackson
Pam Grier
Quentin Tarantino
Distributed by
Independent Film Channel
Release date(s)
August 14, 2002
Running time
60 minutes
Language
English
Budget
$5,000,000 (estimate)
BaadAsssss Cinema is a 2002 documentary film, directed by Isaac Julien. Julien looks at the Blaxploitation era of the 1970s in this hour long documentary.
Contents
1 Plot
1.1 Contributors
2 See also
3 References
4 External links
[edit] Plot
With archive film clips and interviews, this brief look at a frequently overlooked historical period of filmmaking acts as an introduction rather than a complete record. Features interviews with some of the genre's biggest stars, like Fred Williamson, Pam Grier, and Richard Roundtree. Director Melvin Van Peebles discusses the historical importance of his landmark film Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song. For a contemporary perspective, the excitable Quentin Tarantino offers his spirited commentary and author/critic bell hooks provides some scholarly social analysis.
The music of Blaxploitation films is discussed, focusing on Curtis Mayfield's Super Fly and Isaac Hayes' Shaft. Interviews with writer/director Larry Cohen and film historian Armond White are also featured. BaadAsssss Cinema was originally shown on the Independent Film Channel in August 2002 as part of a week-long Blaxploitation film festival.
[edit] Contributors
Larry Cohen
Ron Finley
Pam Grier
Ed Guerrero
Gloria Hendry
bell hooks
Samuel L. Jackson
Elvis Mitchell
Afeni Shakur
Quentin Tarantino
Melvin Van Peebles
Armond White
Fred Williamson
Isaac Hayes ¡ª archive footage
Roy Innis ¡ª archive footage
Jesse Jackson ¡ª archive footage
Ron O'Neal ¡ª archive footage
Gordon Parks ¡ª archive footage
[edit] See also
List of blaxploitation films
[edit] References
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[edit] External links
BaadAsssss Cinema at the Internet Movie Database
BaadAsssss Cinema at the Independent Film Channel
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Blaxploitation films
Documentary films about the film industry
American documentary films
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