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Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2008: #27 Miracle at St.Anna

Published on January 31, 2008

#27. Miracle at St. Anna

Director: Spike Lee
Writers: James McBride adapts from his own novel.
Producers: Roberto Cicutto and Luigi Musini (Ne touchez pas la hache) and Lee
Distributor: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures

The Gist: Based on U.S. author James McBride’s novel about black
American soldiers fighting the German army in the mountains of Tuscany, Derek Luke
will play one of four members of the U.S. Army’s all-black 92nd Division who get
separated from their squad behind enemy lines.

Fact: Lee is quoted as saying “I met a black veteran who fought
at Iwo Jima, and he told me how disappointed he was that there was not even one
Afro-American (soldier) in Clint Eastwood’s two films”.

See It: This reminds me of one of the episodes in Roberto Rossellini Paisà (Paisan) and could be Spike Lee’s crowning acheivement.

Release Date/Status?: Currently filming, Disney will release the picture on the 10th of October.

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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).