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Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971)

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Public Enemy
Even if you didn't like the film, read up on it's history. This isn't something like Brakhage making stuff safely. Instead, you have a director doing his own stunts, getting an STD from a scene, working with motorcycle gangs, and being forced to arm himself and the crew because it wasn't a union film. 11 years ago
Shingwauk
Does no one have a problem with the scene with the prostitute having sex with a child! 5 years 9 months ago
weirdboy
LOL at the map of the entire United States up on the wall of the police station to coordinate a search of Los Angeles. It wouldn't have been so obvious if he hadn't included a scene where the guy points right at it and says "he's got to be right here" (pointing to California). 8 years 3 months ago

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