Blaxploitation Friday Movie Fun
January 20, 2006 8:49 AM Subscribe
Many of you have probably heard of "Superfly" with its classic poster, and iconic soundtrack by Curtis Mayfield. However, you might not have heard of some other Blaxploitation films. For Instance "The Black Gestapo" which mixes NAZI aesthetics with the roving bass of a tight funk beat, or perhaps even more ludicrously the 1992 underground Blaxploitation tribute film "Gayniggers From Outer Space".
A bunch of imdb and wikipedia links, accompanied by a jpeg hosted on your server? Bad form.
posted by monju_bosatsu at 8:58 AM on January 20, 2006
posted by monju_bosatsu at 8:58 AM on January 20, 2006
I've cherished the Superfly soundtrack for a while, and I'm a post-college white boy...
My funk band does a great cover of 'Pusherman' which, along with a small hand-full of others, is a cornerstone of funk music.
I suppose I'd through in a couple Meters tunes, P.Funk, and some Stevie Wonder in there too.
posted by blastrid at 9:00 AM on January 20, 2006
My funk band does a great cover of 'Pusherman' which, along with a small hand-full of others, is a cornerstone of funk music.
I suppose I'd through in a couple Meters tunes, P.Funk, and some Stevie Wonder in there too.
posted by blastrid at 9:00 AM on January 20, 2006
I downloaded Black Gestapo a few months back. Pretty sucky, not worth $5.
posted by the cuban at 9:00 AM on January 20, 2006
posted by the cuban at 9:00 AM on January 20, 2006
You know, I'm a fan of the genre (I named one of my cats Rudy, after Rudy Ray Moore), and there's probably a good post to be made on the subject, but DUDE- a collection of IMDb and Wikipedia links does not a good post make.
posted by mkultra at 9:02 AM on January 20, 2006
posted by mkultra at 9:02 AM on January 20, 2006
sorry about the image link on my server i figured because it was just an image and not a link to content etc.. that it would be acceptable, and as for the others there isn't a plethora of blaxploitation material on line. This site being the main one. Which has a truly awful interface and i did not think worth posting. I suppose the intent was more to expose you to these films, and if you have already seen them all... which i doubt... then i apologize.
posted by sourbrew at 9:08 AM on January 20, 2006
posted by sourbrew at 9:08 AM on January 20, 2006
This place is becoming more and more like Hot or Not for posts every day. This FPP could have been a lot better, but it's even more of a let down to enter the comments forum and see that half of them are just complaints about the post. Maybe if we all work together we can somehow save this post. Does anyone have any good Blaxploitation links to contribute, to make this thread better than what it is?
Here, I've found this. It's an editorial on "Blaxploitation Month" and lists a lot of cool titles to explore. I'm not exactly an expert on the genre so maybe this is stuff everyone already knows, but I found the article to be a good read. =)
posted by ducksauce at 9:13 AM on January 20, 2006
Here, I've found this. It's an editorial on "Blaxploitation Month" and lists a lot of cool titles to explore. I'm not exactly an expert on the genre so maybe this is stuff everyone already knows, but I found the article to be a good read. =)
posted by ducksauce at 9:13 AM on January 20, 2006
xod that was the site that i turned down for having a shoddy interface, and sound on launch.
posted by sourbrew at 9:20 AM on January 20, 2006
posted by sourbrew at 9:20 AM on January 20, 2006
I love blaxsploitation films. (self link warning)
Here's an interview I conducted with noted blaxsploitation director Jack Hill, director of Coffy and Foxy Brown among others.
I'm trying to work my way up to Pam Grier.
posted by hipnerd at 9:26 AM on January 20, 2006
Here's an interview I conducted with noted blaxsploitation director Jack Hill, director of Coffy and Foxy Brown among others.
I'm trying to work my way up to Pam Grier.
posted by hipnerd at 9:26 AM on January 20, 2006
The most notable thing about "The Black Gestapo" is that Uschi Digard is in it. Yum!
That said, here's a NYT review of same, since we're posting crappy links.
I was going to add that we really need to see a DVD released of Melvin Van Peeble's awesome "Watermelon Man", but I see it's already out.
posted by stinkycheese at 9:34 AM on January 20, 2006
That said, here's a NYT review of same, since we're posting crappy links.
I was going to add that we really need to see a DVD released of Melvin Van Peeble's awesome "Watermelon Man", but I see it's already out.
posted by stinkycheese at 9:34 AM on January 20, 2006
As for amazing links, Record Brother curently has a three disc set of blaxploitation themes and music up on zip files. Believe me, this is some bangin' sheeeeeeeeeit.
posted by stinkycheese at 9:36 AM on January 20, 2006
posted by stinkycheese at 9:36 AM on January 20, 2006
sourbrew: true enough. still, a reasonable database.
And while I like Pam Grier in the Foxy Brown series as much as the next Brother from Another Planet, the most insightful experience of late has been a double feature:
SWEET SWEETBACK'S BAADASSSSS SONG by Melvin Van Peebles
and the documentary by his son, Mario Van Peebles
BAADASSSSS
Also, 'Story of a Three-Day Pass' by Melvin is excellent. Certainly black cinema, not so sure about blaxploitation.
posted by xod at 9:41 AM on January 20, 2006
And while I like Pam Grier in the Foxy Brown series as much as the next Brother from Another Planet, the most insightful experience of late has been a double feature:
SWEET SWEETBACK'S BAADASSSSS SONG by Melvin Van Peebles
and the documentary by his son, Mario Van Peebles
BAADASSSSS
Also, 'Story of a Three-Day Pass' by Melvin is excellent. Certainly black cinema, not so sure about blaxploitation.
posted by xod at 9:41 AM on January 20, 2006
xod: "SWEET SWEETBACK'S BAADASSSSS SONG by Melvin Van Peebles"
Easily my favourite Blaxploitation film (if it really is that) - the sequence with Come On Feet on the soundtrack is just stunning.
And thanks to hipnerd for saving the thread with that interview - do you have any more info on Hill's back-to-back-to-back-to-back films with Karloff? By the sound of it, they can only be very, verybad good.
Poor form, I know, but consider this a proto-talk page entry:
sourbrew: " I suppose the intent was more to expose you to these films..."
Laudable aim, but if you couldn't muster a single decent link on the topic, why post here? No discussion without links, surely?
posted by jack_mo at 9:46 AM on January 20, 2006
Easily my favourite Blaxploitation film (if it really is that) - the sequence with Come On Feet on the soundtrack is just stunning.
And thanks to hipnerd for saving the thread with that interview - do you have any more info on Hill's back-to-back-to-back-to-back films with Karloff? By the sound of it, they can only be very, very
Poor form, I know, but consider this a proto-talk page entry:
sourbrew: " I suppose the intent was more to expose you to these films..."
Laudable aim, but if you couldn't muster a single decent link on the topic, why post here? No discussion without links, surely?
posted by jack_mo at 9:46 AM on January 20, 2006
jack_mo well ideally i would have posted torrents, but i'm pretty sure those would have been taken down with a quickness... i'm willing to bet some of the more adventerous folks here will be able to scrounge some up.
posted by sourbrew at 10:06 AM on January 20, 2006
posted by sourbrew at 10:06 AM on January 20, 2006
Sun Ra's "Space is the Place" is amazing just for the fact that it exists.
posted by ghastlyfop at 10:37 AM on January 20, 2006
posted by ghastlyfop at 10:37 AM on January 20, 2006
When I saw the Superfly poster I thought: lookit the size of that gun. You can hardly see it. The kind of gun you need to look cool on a movie poster has grown since then...
posted by Termite at 10:48 AM on January 20, 2006
posted by Termite at 10:48 AM on January 20, 2006
Termite, heh i was trying to find a better large one, it exists out there somewhere as i at one point found it and plotted a 42 inch by 4 foot copy of that beast... and the gun is still only like 4 inches
posted by sourbrew at 11:03 AM on January 20, 2006
posted by sourbrew at 11:03 AM on January 20, 2006
I love blaxsploitation films.
Me too. My personal favorite, even though the movie is terrible, has got to be Soul Vengeance. How can you not love a movie where "his (main character) murder weapon is his own genitals which are now enormous and super powered as a result of the experiments he endured in prison"
posted by shawnj at 12:32 PM on January 20, 2006
Me too. My personal favorite, even though the movie is terrible, has got to be Soul Vengeance. How can you not love a movie where "his (main character) murder weapon is his own genitals which are now enormous and super powered as a result of the experiments he endured in prison"
posted by shawnj at 12:32 PM on January 20, 2006
Sun Ra's "Space is the Place" is amazing just for the fact that it exists.
Hell yes, ghastlyfop.
posted by The Great Big Mulp at 1:30 PM on January 20, 2006
Hell yes, ghastlyfop.
posted by The Great Big Mulp at 1:30 PM on January 20, 2006
lol, i've seen gayniggers from outer space.. hope this doesn't turn up when a future employer googles about me
btw a madlib and melvin van peebles album was announced in june 2005
posted by suni at 5:16 PM on January 20, 2006
btw a madlib and melvin van peebles album was announced in june 2005
posted by suni at 5:16 PM on January 20, 2006
Back in the day, I was a military brat overseas where our base theater screened mostly blaxploitation, chop-socky, spaghetti westerns, giallo, Hammer, AI and Toho fare. It was a 70's B-movie paradise! So I got to dig Super Fly, Blacula et al on the big screen. Soul brothers sticking to The Man were very empowering images not just for their intended audience but for us honky teens too. Everyone needs to connect with their inner Shaft!
Contemporaneous to blaxploitation flicks were the great black concert doc's Wattstax and Soul To Soul (featuring the late Wilson Pickett and linked in his thread).
posted by bonefish at 2:43 AM on January 21, 2006
Contemporaneous to blaxploitation flicks were the great black concert doc's Wattstax and Soul To Soul (featuring the late Wilson Pickett and linked in his thread).
posted by bonefish at 2:43 AM on January 21, 2006
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