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| Spike
Lee |
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| Director
/ Producer / Screenwriter / Actor / Editor |
| 1957 - |
| Born March 20,
Atlanta, Georgia, USA |
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Production Country: USA |
| Key Genres: Drama,
Urban Drama, Crime Drama |
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Collaborators: Terence Blanchard
(Composer), Barry Alexander Brown (Editor), Wynn Thomas (Production
Designer), Jon Kilik (Producer), Ernest
Dickerson (Cinematographer), John Turturro (Character Player), Sam Pollard (Editor), Ossie Davis
(Character Player), Denzel Washington (Leading Player), Ruby Dee (Leading Character
Player) |
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Highly Recommended: Do
the Right Thing (1989) |
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Recommended: She's
Gotta Have It (1986), Malcolm
X (1992), Clockers (1995), 25th Hour (2002) |
| Links:
[
IMDB ] [ All-Movie
Guide ] [
Film Reference ]
[
Thomson
Gale Biography ] [ Salon Interview ] [
Guardian
Unlimited Interview ] [
eFilmCritic
Interview (1999) ] [ DGA
Interview ] [ Interview:
Four Little Girls ] [
NPR Audio Interview (2006) ] [ Film
Monthly Article ] [ Scotsman
Article (2005)
] [
BBC: Calling the Shots ] |
| Books:
[ Spike
Lee: That's My Story and I'm Sticking to It ] [
Spike
Lee: Filmmaker ] [ Spike
Lee: Interviews ] [ Spike
Lee: On His Own Terms ] |
| DVD's:
[ Amazon
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| 1,000
Greatest Films: Do
the Right Thing (1989) |
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21st Century's Most Acclaimed Films:
Bamboozled (2000), 25th Hour (2002) |
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"If
Lee is best known for his sometimes provocative studies of
racial prejudice and conflict, the value of his films arguably
lies less in political commentary (which can tend towards the
simplistic) than in his having given a cinematic voice to
contemporary African-Americans. Not only is he adept at
portraying the fabric, texture and sheer variety of the black
American experience but his style, often neglected in favour of
the films' content, is idiosyncratic and assured." -
Geoff
Andrew (The Director's Vision, 1999) |
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"The great thing
about Lee is that he has not tired or faltered. The question
mark still hangs over the degree of his talent...He is capable,
I think, of a great film about New York - and it might be better
if he saw that as his subject and let the responsibility of
being the best black director around look after itself." -
David Thomson (The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, 2002) |
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"Leading
American maker of street-level social dramas, whose narrative
skills are sometimes undercut by seemingly racist (anti-white)
attitudes. Having said that, Lee's films, in which he himself
often plays featured roles, are frequently inspired by real
events...His films, to many of which jazz forms an important
background ingredient, are challenging, thought-provoking and
in-your-face, sometimes too simplistic, but never taking the
easy option, nor offering any ready resolution to the racial
oppression which Lee sees all over America." - David
Quinlan (Quinlan's Film Directors, 1999) |
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