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How to Eat Your Watermelon in White Company (and Enjoy It)

2006

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Release Date: January 20, 2006

Summary: A chronological collage of Melvin Van Peebles, a beyond-Renaissance man. (Film Forum)

Director: Joe Angio

Genre(s): Documentary

Runtime: 85 min

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80

Salon

Andrew O'Hehir

A loving tribute to one of the strangest and most enjoyable figures to emerge from American pop culture in its entire history. Read full review

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Variety

Ronnie Scheib

Lively interviews from a wide range of people, a wealth of excerpted footage stretching over decades, and a story packed with legend are served up by helmer Joe Angio with a verve mirroring the restless creativity of the film's subject. Read full review

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Film Threat

Greg Bellavia

If anything, one wishes the film would have spent even more time with Peebles in his personal life. Read full review

70

The New York Times

Dana Stevens

The film chronicles an astonishing career...Mr. Van Peebles is that rarest of modern creatures: a free man. Read full review

67

The A.V. Club

Nathan Rabin

Angio captures the outlandish twists and turns of Van Peebles' life with humor, color, and a welcome lightness of touch. Read full review

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Christian Science Monitor

Peter Rainer

Melvin Van Peebles gets the idolatrous treatment in this documentary by first-time director Joe Angio that traces his subject's career as San Francisco cable-car conductor, rap pioneer, filmmaker, Broadway producer, stockbroker, and all-around womanizer. Read full review

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New York Daily News

Elizabeth Weitzman

Angio's film is an excellent introduction, but it won't be long before you realize that his subject is too complex to be contained in a single admiring tribute. When you want to know more - and you will - you'll be glad there's somewhere else to go for a bigger picture. Read full review

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