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Posts Tagged "Spike Lee"

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She’s Gotta Have It *** (1986, Tracy Camilla Johns, Tommy Redmond Hicks, John Canada Terrell, Spike Lee) – Classic Movie Review 4162

Writer-director Spike Lee’s inexpensive first feature, costing only $175,000, takes a vibrant and highly original look at the pros and pitfalls of being a liberated woman. It was shot by director of photography Ernest Dickerson in […]

Aug, 13

Crooklyn (1994, Spike Lee) – Classic Film Review 896

Co-writer/director Spike Lee’s 1994 semi-autobiographical comedy-drama panorama of Brooklyn life in the Seventies, centring on one African-American family, is one of his least-praised, but most involving and best movies. Zelda Harris is remarkable as Troy, […]

Mar, 10

School Daze *** (1988, Laurence Fishburne, Giancarlo Esposito, Tisha Campbell, Spike Lee, Ossie Davis, Joe Seneca, Bill Nunn) – Classic Movie Review 893

In his second film (after She’s Gotta Have It in 1986), from way back 1988, young writer-director Spike Lee gives himself a crucial role as Half-Pint, the newcomer to the Gamma Phi Gamma college fraternity […]

Mar, 10

25th Hour – Classic Film Review 480

In 2002, director Spike Lee turns in a particularly gritty, provocative, moving and emotionally satisfying movie. Edward Norton is scaldingly good as convicted New York drug dealer Montgomery Brogan sentenced to a seven-year jail term, but enjoying his last 24 hours […]

Dec, 07

Oldboy – Film Review

Josh Brolin is great as Joe Doucett, an advertising executive who is abducted and locked into solitary confinement for 20 years. When he is inexplicably released, he embarks on an obsessive quest to find out why he […]

Dec, 05

Summer of Sam **** (1999, John Leguizamo, Adrien Brody, Mira Sorvino, Jennifer Esposito, Michael Rispoli, Ben Gazzara, Anthony LaPaglia) – Classic Movie Review 469

There’s panic, fear and distrust in the streets as a real-life serial killer maniac called Son of Sam is on the loose, stalking the streets of New York in the long, hot summer of 1977. Director […]

Dec, 04

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