The Story of a Three-Day Pass (1968)

• Introduction by Melvin Van Peebles (2:46 Min.) ¹
  In this brief introduction, recorded in 1997, director Melvin Van Peebles explains how he was able to make his first feature film in France.
• Pour le plaisir: Melvin Van Peebles (22:43 Min.) ²
  This episode of the French television show Pour le plaisir features interviews with director Melvin Van Peebles and actors Harry Baird and Nicole Berger, conducted on the set of The Story of a Three Day Pass. Originally aired on February 1, 1968, it was directed by Peter Kassovitz.
• Black Journal (4:58 Min.) ¹
  This August 14, 1968, episode of the television programm Black Journal features an interview with director Melvin Van Peebles, who was promoting the U.S. release of his first feature film, The Story of a Three Day Pass.
• Warrington Hudlin and Nelson George (21:03 Min.) ¹
  In this conversation, recorded remotely by the Criterion Collection in 2021, film producer Warrington Hudlin and music historian Nelson George discuss Melvin Van Peebles's defiant filmmaking style.
• Short Films
  Presented here are three short films from early in Melvin Van Peebles's directing career. Made in 1957 in San Francisco, Sunlight ist about a man who commits a petty crime out of love for a woman and features Melvin's son Mario Van Peebles as the couple's baby. Later that year, the director made Three Pickup Men for Herrick, about a group of day laborers vying for work. In 1961, now in Paris, he made Les cinq cent balles, about a boy who tries to retrieve a five-hundred-franc note from a gutter.
• Sunlight (9:43 Min.) ¹
• Three Pickup Men for Herrick (8:40 Min.) ³
• Les cinq cent balles (12:04 Min.) ³
• Trailer (2:07 Min.) ¹

alle Extras in HD
¹ Engl.
² Frz. mit Engl. UT
³ ohne Dialog