BaadAsssss Cinema

BaadAsssss Cinema

Infobox_Film
name = BaadAsssss Cinema


imdb_id = 0321353
writer = Isaac Julien
Adam Finch
starring = Samuel L. Jackson
Pam Grier
Quentin Tarantino
director = Isaac Julien
producer = Paula Jalfon
Colin MacCabe
Caroline Kaplan
distributor = Independent Film Channel
released = August 14, 2002
runtime = 60 minutes
language = English
music =
awards =
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.

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 rightfully discussed, focusing on Curtis Mayfield's "Super Fly" and Isaac Hayes' "Shaft". Also features interviews with writer/director Larry Cohen and film historian Armond White. "BaadAsssss Cinema" was originally shown on the Independent Film Channel in August 2002 as part of a week-long Blaxploitation film festival.

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 — archive footage
*Roy Innis — archive footage
*Jesse Jackson — archive footage
*Ron O'Neal — archive footage
*Gordon Parks — archive footage

ee also

* List of blaxploitation films

References

External links

*imdb title|id=0321353|title=BaadAsssss Cinema
* [http://www.ifctv.com/ifc/what/0,5266,CAT0-45-CAT1-2402-SHID-17179-AID-2747-TZ-ET-TB-4-CLR-blue-BCLR-0099CC-,00.html "BaadAsssss Cinema"] at the Independent Film Channel


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