Yesterday Will Make You Cry [a Novel] by Melvin Van Peebles

“He said, ‘I don’t think people recognize what your father did, when he put Black power on the screen. Mario said that boxing legend Muhammad Ali told him as much. As the “godfather of independent Black cinema,” he’s an artist who may not have gotten his due.

Overseeing his estate are Mario and his brother Max, who might recognize an urgency in collaborating with their father to reintroduce his life’s work.

The elder Van Peebles will be 89 on August 21. Melvin Van Peebles Dies: Iconic Filmmaker, Actor, and Novelist Was 89 I think he did a lot of things that were ahead of their time, and people are still discovering the work decades later.” So, our anniversaries overlap - 30 years for me and 50 for dad. And then, weirdly enough, 20 years later, I did ‘New Jack City’ in 1991. “It’s also an anniversary of all things Van Peebles in a way: ‘Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song’ celebrates its 50-year anniversary this year. “There’s a renewed interest in looking at Black history, given all that’s happened in the last few years, and you see it on the screen,” Mario said. The re-release isn’t tied to a milestone anniversary. A 4K restoration by IndieCollect, in consultation with his son Mario Van Peebles, opened in US theaters May 14. The fifth, 1967’s “La Permission,” became the basis for his 1968 feature-film debut, “The Story of a Three-Day Pass.” A commentary on France’s contradictory attitudes about race, it’s an exploration of an interracial relationship between a Black American GI stationed in France (Turner, played by Harry Baird) and a white Parisian woman (Miriam, played by Nicole Berger). Living as an ex-pat in Paris in the late 1950s, Melvin Van Peebles taught himself the language and wrote five books in French.

Yesterday Will Make You Cry [a Novel] by Melvin Van Peebles