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How to Eat Your Watermelon in White Company (and Enjoy It)
Directed by
Joe Angio
Not Rated
2005
84m
Documentary
7.1
92%
85%
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Feature-length documentary on renegade filmmaker, novelist, musician and theater impresario, Melvin Van Peebles.
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Cast of How to Eat Your Watermelon in White Company (and Enjoy It)
Marva Allen
Emanuel Azenberg
Spike Lee
Melvin Van Peebles
Gil Scott-Heron
Elvis Mitchell
Gordon Parks
Mario Van Peebles
Herschel Dwellingham
Joe Angio
Director / Writer
Michael Solomon
Producer
How to Eat Your Watermelon in White Company (and Enjoy It) Ratings & Reviews
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
Its framing motif-in which he has his head cast in polyurethane for a sculpture and ultimately poses beside it at an exhibition-nicely captures the artist's fierce powers of self-invention...
Cinematical
Christopher Campbell
A phenomenal outline of [Melvin Van Peeble's] prolific and varied life.
Film Journal International
Eric Monder
The first film to fully encompass Van Peebles' long, varied and impressive career.
BlackFilm.com
Kam Williams
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.
AV Club
Nathan Rabin
[Van Peebles] could surely survive a more critical and complete look at his extraordinary life and times.
Slant Magazine
Jeremiah Kipp
The 72-year-old Melvin remains fascinating as an artist, self-promoter, and success story.
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
... offers a solid overview of the pioneering African-American filmmaker's wide-ranging career.
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
... enlightening doc ...
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.
New York Times
A.O. Scott
This documentary about the pioneering black filmmaker Melvin Van Peebles is nearly as mischevious and fascinating as its subject.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
Melvin Van Peebles gets the idolatrous treatment in this documentary by first-time director Joe Angio.
Newsday
Gene Seymour
Frisky, enthralling and inspiring.
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