BaadAsssss Cinema
BaadAsssss Cinema
Watch baadasssss cinema on Soap2day. With archive film clips and interviews, this brief look at a frequently overlooked historical period of filmmaking acts as an introduction rather than a complete record. It features interviews with some of the genre's biggest stars, like Fred Williamson, Pam Grier, and Richard Roundtree. 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.
- Genre: Action, Documentary
- Country: United States
- Director: Isaac Julien
- Cast: Larry Cohen, Tamara Dobson, Ron Finley, Pam Grier, Ed Guerrero, Isaac Hayes, Gloria Hendry, bell hooks, Roy Innis, Jesse Jackson, Samuel L. Jackson, Max Julien, Jim Kelly, Yaphet Kotto, Curtis Mayfield, Elvis Mitchell, Ron O'Neal, Gordon Parks, Richard Roundtree, Afeni Shakur, Quentin Tarantino,
