The record-breaking recognition of Sinners by the Academy suggests audiences may be more open than expected to culturally specific, imaginative Black films that don’t rely on narratives of suffering.
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Spike Lee’s Highest 2 Lowest is a contemporary American take on Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 classic crime drama High and Low.
David Byrne redefined the idea of what a band onstage looks like. Spike Lee has made a film about Byrne and his band that stands up with the best.
Since 1981, thousands of US veterans on “healing journeys” have been warmly welcomed by the Vietnamese.
The release of a John Coltrane movie soundtrack from 1964 has brought jazz movies into focus.
‘Some of us speak King’s English, some of us speak jive,’ declares the lead character in Lee’s powerful new film. And he wields the English language to devastating effect.
What is interesting about the true story is what Lee doesn’t have the time, or perhaps the inclination, to show.
BlacKkKlansman is more than a good story: it expertly weaves together comedy with serious drama to bring the story of past racism to illuminate our present day issues.
In 1979, David Duke told the media he had launched a wildly successful recruiting drive in Connecticut. A local reporter wanted to test Duke’s claims – so he filled out an application to join the KKK.
Spike Lee’s updated his breakthrough movie, She’s Gotta Have It, and made a more political drama for the times.
Lee’s film about a drug dealer facing jail started shooting before the World Trade Centre attacks – and it captures New York through its period of trauma.
With #BlackLivesMatter and a never-ending list of African Americans being killed by police, the film ‘Do The Right Thing’ is even more relevant now than when it was released 27 years ago.
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