The Criterion Collection - Spine# 1095
Melvin van Peebles is constantly on the run in this movie. And when I say “on the run” I mean it literally. Sweetback (Peebles) spends the majority of his time evading the police in this picture. The film defies conventions with its atypical hero at the center of the story and is often credited with birthing the blaxploitation genre. And while Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song can be viewed as a standard chase movie, with…