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BaadAsssss Cinema is a 2002 TV documentary film directed by Isaac Julien. Julien looks at the Blaxploitation era of the 1970s in this hour-long documentary.
Aug 14, 2002 · Baadasssss Cinema: Directed by Isaac Julien. With Pam Grier, Fred Williamson, Melvin Van Peebles, Elvis Mitchell. Filmmaker Isaac Julien uses film clips and interviews to illustrate the history of the so-called "blaxploitation" genre.
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.
Sep 26, 2002 · Tonight (Oct. 3) at 7, the Harvard Film Archive will premier “BaadAsssss Cinema,” a documentary by Isaac Julien, visiting lecturer in Afro-American Studies and Visual and Environmental Studies (VES).
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.
Directed by Isaac Julien. US/UK, 2002, digital video, color, 56 min. Blaxploitation movies took their cue from the civil rights and Black Power movements—casting black actors for the first time in starring roles, as heroes instead of victims—and drew larger African American audiences than any others before or since.
'Badassss Cinema' doesn't provide any especially reassuring (or, for that matter, surprising) answers to these questions, but as a piece of revisionist film history it's a snappy and informative overview of a fascinating moment in early Seventies American cinema.
