As you probably already know, it was announced yesterday that the influential filmmaker, Melvin Van Peebles, passed away. And as with the passing of any sort of filmmaking royalty, folks from the industry went to social media to share kind words. (In a sadly timely release, one of this month’s Criterion releases is a new box set of Van Peebles’ early films, including “The Story of A Three-Day Pass,” “Watermelon Man,” “Don’t Play Us Cheap,” and “Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song.”) READ MORE: Criterion To Release ‘Melvin Van Peebles: Four Films’ Blu-Ray Collection This September Ava DuVernay shared a quote by Van Peebles, a filmmaker she called “iconic.” The quote read, “You have to not let yourself believe you can’t.
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