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Melvin Van Peebles
Series
Pub. Date
[2000]
Description
With over a dozen of his classic performances ranging from 1932 to the late sixties, Satchmo includes excerpts from Pennies from Heaven, Betty Boop cartoon, Going places, Jam session, New Orleans with Billie Holiday, High Society with Bing Crosby, and Hello Dolly with Barbra Streisand. Also included are live concerts with Dizzy Gillespie, and Jack Teagarden and the All Stars. The film also presents on-camera interviews with Arvell Shaw, Tony Bennett,...
2) The shining
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Jack Torrance and his family move into the sprawling, vacant Overlook Hotel to get away from it all. Away from the alcoholism that derails Jack's writing career. Away from the violent outbursts that mar Jack's past. But Jack's young son Danny knows better. He possesses a psychic gift called the shining- a gift the hotel's vile spirits desperately want.
4) Peeples
Pub. Date
c2013
Description
Sparks fly when Wade Walker crashes the preppy Peeples annual reunion in the Hamptons to ask for their precious daughter Grace's hand in marriage
5) Baadasssss!
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
An account of how director Melvin Van Peebles made his 1970s opus Sweet Sweetback's Baadassss Song. Determined to make a film that mattered, Melvin, dealing with Hollywood hypocrisy and a less-than-stellar crew, a strained relationship with his family, and failing health, put everything on the line to realize his cinematic dream.
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