Tag: SPIKE LEE
Cast from Da 5 Bloods (Spike Lee, 2020, 154 min.). (Photo: © David C. Lee) Spike Lee is our generation’s Martin Scorsese, making films about New York stories that have largely gone untold in Hollywood. From Do the Right Thing and Malcolm X to 4 Little Girls and Da 5 Bloods, Lee’s gift for filmmaking […]
Last week, the Film Society of Lincoln Center concluded its beautiful ode to an era, “Tell it like it is: Black Independents in New York, 1968-1986.” The survey of more than a dozen titles produced during the period, some never-before seen, offered a peak into an unheralded, often forgotten moment of visual storytelling which is […]
BAM is hosting a Spike Lee retrospective this month that will feature the filmmaker and gentrification-hater‘s NYU master’s thesis alongside his better-known work. It’s called Joe’s Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads, and it was assistant directed by the auteur’s classmate Ang Lee. Here’s the plot synopsis, via BAM: Lee’s Student Academy Award-winning NYU thesis film displays the brash stylistic […]
Last night, Spike Lee gave a talk at Pratt Institute for Black History Month that included what by all accounts was a pretty incredible section on gentrification. Listen below. The topic came up when an attendee asked Lee about the “the other side” of gentrification — a line of discussion the filmmaker was happy to […]
Spike Lee has been setting himself up remaking Park Chan-wook’s Oldboy from The Vengeance Trilogy. And now, the trailer is here so we can all JUDGE HIM. NSFW! LET’S JUDGE HIM. Yeah, Josh Brolin looks like he spent 20 years imprisoned in a room without any explanation and even displays flourishes of Min-sik Choi’s dark comedic awkwardness as he scuttles […]
