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Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022
when they do a cutaway to the hot dog fingers or raccoon gag for the fifteenth time:
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Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song 1971
Melvin Van Peebles interview with Roger Ebert:
"And the arrogance of the white critic is something to behold. In New York, a lot of the critics wouldn't even come to see my movie because I didn't have a screening for them. I said, if they want to see it, let them go to a theater that's full of black people, and full of kids, and let them listen to what's coming down, and they'll understand the film."
"But if they…