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Congrats to NYU grad Ian Harnarine whose short film, Doubles with Slight Pepper, which we’ve featured on this site, and which was exec produced by Spike Lee, won the Telefilm Canada Pitch This! contest yesterday at the Toronto Film Festival, which carries a prize of C$10,000 - money which Ian will use to adapt the short film into a [...]

Continue Reading Ian Harnarine’s ‘Doubles With Slight Pepper’ Wins Telefilm Canada Pitch This! Feature Next…

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Following its Venice Film Festival and Toronto International Film Festival screenings, Spike Lee’s Michael Jackson documentary, made in collaboration with the estate of Michael Jackson and Sony Music, titled Bad 25, will air on ABC on Thanksgiving Day; specific details to be revealed later, according to the press release. ABC has acquired the television rights to Bad 25, which shares fresh [...]

Continue Reading Poster For Spike Lee’s Michael Jackson Doc ‘Bad 25′ (Coming To ABC On Thanksgiving)

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Earlier this week, I attended a press screening of the recut version of Spike Lee’s much-discussed and debated Red Hook Summer; and even though I saw it at the Sundance Film Festival in January, and reviewed it soon after, I plan to write a new review of the film, based on the new edit I [...]

Continue Reading Watch Spike Lee Resurrect Mookie In New Clip From ‘Red Hook Summer’

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Mike Tyson’s Las Vegas one-man show, The Undisputed Truth, is heading to Broadway under Spike Lee’s direction… in case you haven’t heard. Tyson will bring his show to Broadway for a limited engagement (July 31 to Augugust 12) at the Longacre Theatre. This will be Spike’s Broadway directorial debut (he filmed a stage production Passing Strange; but he’s never actually [...]

Continue Reading Watch: Mike Tyson & Spike Lee in Rehearsal for ‘Undisputed Truth’

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Anyone who regularly watches the Turner Classic Movie cable channel (and if not, why aren’t you?) knows that every week on a special night, they like to have some celebrity (usually an actor, director, film critic or writer) as the guest programmer, to choose and discuss the films for that evening’s broadcast. Well, this Thursday July 5, [...]

Continue Reading Spike Lee Is TCM’s Guest Programmer This Thursday July 5th

Tags: actor charles laughton, charles laughton, elia kazan, film, Guest, norma rae, showing films, Spike, thriller night

I was on a program one time with Spike Lee, and we got into it. I said he has a problem. Very often right in the middle of a movie he’s making he tries to make an aesthetic statement. There’s a kind of pretentiousness in what he does sometimes. I think the best film by [...]

Continue Reading RIP Influential Film Critic Andrew Sarris (Revisit His ‘Mildly Unpleasant Encounter’ w/ Spike Lee + Black Cinema Thoughts)

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Tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock… as I noted in an post earlier this week… time is flying on by, as the theatrical release date for Spike Lee’s latest work, Red Hook Summer, fast approaches. August 10 to be exact, almost exactly 2 months from today; it seems like it was just yesterday that I saw the film at the Sundance Film Festival, where [...]

Continue Reading Spike Lee’s ‘Red Hook Summer’ Gets A 14-Minute Haircut + New Synopsis

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Last time I wrote about this was in February when it was announced that it had been sold to distributor Grindstone Entertainment/Lionsgate Home Entertainment. And as I learned today, an official release date has been set, and Lionsgate has released a new release trailer for it, which I embedded below.  Michael Pinckney’s feature film debut, executive-produced by Spike Lee by [...]

Continue Reading Spike Lee Exec Produced ‘You’re Nobody ’til Somebody Kills You’ Gets Release Date, Trailer

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I’m a little behind on my “Revisiting Spike Lee’s *Forgotten* Films” series; She Hate Me was featured in the first installment in the series (read that HERE if you missed it), and I was going to tackle Girl 6 in installment #2 this week, but didn’t get to it. However, my post will be up [...]

Continue Reading bell hooks, Cultural Criticism… On Spike Lee, ‘Girl 6′ & Representing Blackness In Hollywood

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I’m a little behind on my “Revisiting Spike Lee’s *Forgotten* Films” series; She Hate Me was featured in the first installment in the series (read that HERE if you missed it), and I was going to tackle Girl 6 in installment #2 this week, but didn’t get to it. However, my post will be up [...]

Continue Reading bell hooks, Cultural Criticism… On Spike Lee, ‘Girl 6′ & Representing Blackness In Hollywood

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