Film Screening | "Americans in Paris" Program 1 at Anthology Film Archives: Melvin Van Peebles (2nd Screening)
Longform Content
As a cinematic sidebar to Americans in Paris, Anthology Film Archives will host four programs featuring American expat artists who are showcased in the exhibition, and for whom living in Paris played a formative role in their lives and artistic development.
The first program presents two works by trailblazing filmmaker and writer Melvin Van Peebles, whose edgy, angsty, and romantic first feature could never have been made in America. Unable to break into a segregated Hollywood, he decamped to France in 1960, taught himself the language, and wrote a number of books in French—one of which, LA PERMISSION, would become his stylistically innovative feature debut.
Melvin Van Peebles
THE STORY OF A THREE-DAY PASS / LA PERMISSION
1967, 86 min, 35mm-to-DCP. New 4K restoration by IndieCollect in consultation with Mario Van Peebles, with support from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
Preceded by:
Melvin Van Peebles
500 FRANCS / LES CINQ CENT BALLES
1961, 12 min, 35mm-to-DCP
Total running time: ca. 105 min.
Visitor Access & Registration
Purchase tickets in advance on Anthology’s website; tickets are also available at Anthology’s box office.
Credits
Co-organized by Anthology Film Archives and NYU’s Grey Art Museum.
