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05/29/08
How To Eat Your Watermelon in White Company (And Enjoy It) (2005)
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Reviews Counted:12
Fresh:11
Rotten:1
Average Rating:7.3/10
Runtime: 85 mins
Genre: Education/General Interest
Starring: Melvin Van Peebles, Mario Van Peebles, Spike Lee, Gordon Parks
Director: Joe Angio
Reviews for How To Eat Your Watermelon in White Company (And...
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Top CriticA phenomenal outline of [Melvin Van Peeble's] prolific and varied life.
09/17/07
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07/14/07
The first film to fully encompass Van Peebles' long, varied and impressive career.
03/01/07
A warts and all bio-pic which chronicles the life of a brash Renaissance Man who, frustrated by racism in America, abandoned the U.S. for France at an early age to pursue an assortment of artistic endeavors overseas.
01/18/07
[Van Peebles] could surely survive a more critical and complete look at his extraordinary life and times.
11/27/06
The 72-year-old Melvin remains fascinating as an artist, self-promoter, and success story.
02/07/06
... offers a solid overview of the pioneering African-American filmmaker's wide-ranging career.
01/20/06
... enlightening doc ...
01/20/06
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.
01/20/06
How to Eat is finally nostalgic, albeit less so for Van Peebles, who at 73 remains active on multiple artistic fronts, than for a lost era when brash individualism and radical politics seemed to go hand in hand.
01/19/06
This documentary about the pioneering black filmmaker Melvin Van Peebles is nearly as mischevious and fascinating as its subject.
01/19/06
Top CriticMelvin Van Peebles gets the idolatrous treatment in this documentary by first-time director Joe Angio.
01/19/06
Frisky, enthralling and inspiring.
01/19/06
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