I have a vivid good impression of the actor with his takes on Spike Lee clunker She Hate Me and his supporting bit in Half Nelson and was glad to see play the jaded, mentally worn out Sergeant JT Sanborn role in one of the best pictures of the year in The Hurt Locker.
Today, TF1 International is showing 20 minutes of Spike Lee's Action War film starring Derek Luke, John Turturro, Laz Alonso and Omar Benson Miller. This is about a murder in contemporary New York sends a young journalist on the trail of a Black American squad fighting
Within a 360 degrees radius stretching from the Palais and the red steps down to the first high-end hotel we find this banner for Spike Lee's (shot in Italy) Miracle at St. Anna.
A common meeting place for auteur cinema, a special film was designed to recall the history of the section with testimonies from a who's who of favorite directors in Todd Haynes, Jacques Rozier, Costa Gavras, Michael Raeburn, Ken Loach, Alain Tanner, Carlos Diegues, Werner Herzog, Theo Angelopoulos, André Téchiné, Chantal Akerman, the Taviani brothers, Jim Jarmusch, Spike Lee, Yousry Nasrallah, Idrissa Ouedraogo, Atom Egoyan, Michael Haneke, Peter Sellars, Naomi Kawase, Manoel de Oliveira, the Dardenne brothers, Stephen Frears, Sofia Coppola, Eric Khoo, Kim Rossi Stuart, Lisandro Alonso, Christophe Honoré, Bong Joon-Ho, William Friedkin and Jacques Nolot.
This year’s top 10, now the American Film Institute's seventh annual year end list includes some serious omissions and a good helping of comedic selections. Not included are downbeat dramas such as Todd Field’s Little Children and Martin Scorsese's The Departed, The Queen or Mel Gibson’s newest endeavor, but Spike Lee’s Inside Man made a surprise entry on the list.