Tag: Spike Lee
Da 5 Bloods | Review
Things Fall Apart: Lee’s New Joint Unearths a Heart of Darkness Alive and Well
“There is no story that is not true,” wrote Chinua Achebe...
IndieSponge Episode 5 – Tenet, Spike Lee, Derek Cianfrance & Ari Aster/Lars Knudsen on Save the Green Planet!
On this week’s episode of IndieSponge, Kevin Jagernauth and I talk about Christopher Nolan's Tenet and the difficult decision making process in opening films...
Criterion Collection: Bamboozled (2000) | Blu-ray Review
That Spike Lee remains one of the true provocative soothsayers of cinema should come as no surprise, yet it’s an epiphany for those reconsidering...
Dog Days Are Over: Lee Examines Conflict and Crisis in “Summer of Sam” | Blu-ray Review
Without a doubt, Spike Lee is one of the most notable contemporary American filmmakers of the last thirty years. His masterpieces, uneven as some...
2020 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Maimouna Doucoure, Laura Baumeister, Nicholas Jarecki & Autumn de Wilde
Cuties
French filmmaker Maïmouna Doucouré already has deep ties to the Sundance Film Festival. She won the Global Filmmaking Award at the Sundance Film Festival...
Criterion Collection: Do the Right Thing (1989) | Blu-ray Review
Just in time for the film’s thirtieth anniversary, the Criterion Collection resurrects Spike Lee’s masterpiece Do the Right Thing with a 4K restoration for...
2018 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 7 – Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman
With only Do the Right Thing (1989) and Jungle Fever (1991) as competition entries, it's been a long time coming for number three to...
Live from Cannes: 2018 Cannes Critics’ Panel – Meet the Jury!
Celebrating our seventh year, for the 71st edition of Cannes, we decided to switch things up for our Cannes Critics' Panel. First, we expanded...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #56. Spike Lee’s Black Klansman
Black Klansman
In a career that spanning three decades, even as of late, we've seen Spike Lee work in just about every genre from Red...
A Cannes Opener: 2016 Cannes Film Festival Predictions
A furious slew of titles in the works would seem to prophesize a robust main competition slate for Cannes 2016. Though our initial list...
Da Sweet Blood of Jesus | Review
S’Blood: Lee’s Facsimile of Bill Gunn an Odd Satisfaction
Surprisingly, after the failure of his 2013 remake of Park Chan-wook’s Oldboy, provocateur Spike Lee’s latest,...
Ryan Coogler & Shaka King…..”Do The Right Thing”
Fruitvale Station's Ryan Coogler & Newlyweeds' Shaka King helmers are encouraging film fans to Do The Right Thing. As part of a day of...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #41. Spike Lee’s Da’ Blood of Jesus
Da' Blood of Jesus
Director: Spike Lee
Writer: Spike Lee
Producer: Spike Lee's 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Michael K. Williams, Felicia...
OldBoy | Review
Let’s Do It Again: Lee’s Reimagining Imaginative Enough
Call it what you will, reimagining, reinterpretation, or remake, Spike Lee’s Oldboy can’t escape its describing root...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #96. Spike Lee’s Oldboy
Oldboy
Director: Spike Lee
Writer(s): Mark Protosevich (first credit was The Cell)
Producer(s): Quandrant Pictures' Doug Davison, Primal Pictures' Roy Lee
U.S. Distributor: Film District
Cast: Samuel L. Jackson,...
Red Hook Summer | Review
Summer Bummer: Lee Offers Strong Ending for the Devoted
With his first fictional film since 2008’s Miracle at St. Anna, the ever divisive Spike Lee...
Hook Line and Sinker; Variance Teams with Spike Lee for “Red Hook Summer”
A full four months after it premiered in Park City to mostly thumbs down type reviews, Deadline reports that Spike Lee will be joining...