![]() ![]() Impressed by what he saw, Cinémathèque founder Henri Langlois invited the American expatriate to Paris. ![]() In France, Lithuanian filmmaker Jonas Mekas exhibited Van Peebles' short films at the Cinémathèque Française. It was in Holland that he added the "van" to his name for performances with the Dutch National Theater. A former San Francisco cable car gripman (by way of a degree in literature at Ohio Wesleyan University and service in the United States Air Force) with a stack of unpublished books and movie-making aspirations, Melvin Peebles relocated to Europe in the 60s to study astronomy on the GI Bill. ![]() Melvin Van Peebles' Watermelon Man (1970) isn't considered a seminal "blaxploitation" title and shouldn't be.yet the film's placement at the head of a growing tsunami of black-themed American movies in the 1970s should not go unmarked. ![]()
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