![]() His first feature, from 1967, “ The Story of a Three-Day Pass,” which was filmed in France, presents a scathing view of the experiences of a Black American soldier, with a freely imaginative aesthetic that unfolds that character’s inner conflicts. ![]() The New York Film Festival opens this weekend under a shadow of mourning, because of the death, on Tuesday, of the filmmaker Melvin Van Peebles, whose third feature, “ Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song,” will play in the festival’s Revivals section, in a new restoration. Photograph from Michael Ochs Archives / Getty ![]() “Sweet Sweetback,” from 1971, made Van Peebles a hero of the cinema and a hero of the times at large. ![]()
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