Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song

 

Year: 1971 | 2003

Time: 97 | 109 min.

 

Series: The Criterion Collection

Edition #: 1095

Release Date: Tuesday, 28 September 2021

MSRP: $124.95  (Box set exclusive)

 

Blu-ray

2 Discs

1.85:1

1.78:1

English PCM Mono 1.0

English DTS-HD MA Surround 5.1

Subtitles: English

Region A

 

 Introduction from by director Melvin Van Peebles from 1997   Audio commentary from 1997 by director Melvin Van Peebles   Baadasssss!, a 2003 fictional feature film based on director Melvin Van Peebles’s diaries from the making of Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song, directed by and starring his son Mario Van Peebles   Audio commentary from 2003 featuring director and star Mario Van Peebles with his father Melvin Van Peebles for Baadasssss!   The Story Behind "Baadasssss!": The Birth of Black Cinema, a 2004 featurette on the making of Baadasssss!   Melvin Van Peebles: The Real Deal, a 2002 interview with the director on the making of Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song   Trailer   New conversation between Melvin Van Peebles and film critic Elvis Mitchell   Interview from 1971 with Melvin Van Peebles on Detroit Tubeworks   Episode of Black Journal from 1971 featuring Melvin Van Peebles and critics Clayton Riley, Francis Ward, and A. Peter Bailey   New conversation between scholars Gerald R. Butters Jr., Novotony Lawrence, and Amy Abugo Ongiri   Excerpts from a 2004 interview with Melvin Van Peebles for the Directors Guild of America Visual History Program