Summer of Satire: Watermelon Man • Screening in 4K
Schedule
Wed Aug 27 2025 at 04:15 pm to 05:55 pm
UTC-04:00Location
40 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA, United States, Massachusetts 02138 | Cambridge, MA
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The great Godfrey Cambridge stars as a bigoted, upper middle class white man who, one morning, wakes up to find that he’s become black. Inspired equally by Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis and John Howard Griffin’s Black Like Me, WATERMELON MAN is one of the most caustically funny satires of the 1970s as it traces the inevitable radicalization of its lead character. [NH]1970 • dir Melvin Van Peebles w/Godfrey Cambridge, Estelle Parsons • 100 min • 4K DCP
Watch the Trailer:
Double Feature with PUTNEY SWOPE
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Where is it happening?
40 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA, United States, Massachusetts 02138Event Location & Nearby Stays:
