The reviews for Spike Lee's film "Red Hook Summer" that premiered at Sundance earlier this week have not been good. His comments made after the premiere about Hollywood studios knowing "nothing about black people" made more headlines than the actual film. An open letter published yesterday by "Red Hook" co-writer, James McBride, is sure to make even more headlines because he takes the film community to task and says "nothing in this world happens unless white folks says it happens." Below is...Read Full Story
*As you probably know by now, Spike Lee was at the Sundance film festival to screen his new movie, “Red Hook Summer,” which is a low-budget, independent film that takes place in a Brooklyn neighborhood.
After the Sunday screening, he introduced the cast and began to field questions. This is where things went sour. As we have all come to know, wherever Spike Lee goes, his sharp edge follows. So when a perfectly reasonable question happened to be asked by a particular celebrity in the...Read Full Story
*Days after Spike Lee railed against Hollywood studio executives at the Sundance Film Festival, his co-producer and co-writer of “Red Hook Summer” has accused those same executives of attempting to keep black filmmakers under their thumb.
“It’s the same old story. Nothing in this world happens unless white folks says it happens,” James McBride wrote on the Lee website, 40acres.com. “And therein lies the problem of being a professional black storyteller — writer, musician, filmmaker.
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Spike Lee spewed his anger at the Sundance Film Festival as if he is in the ghetto or around people of ignorance.
Sundance Film Festival is known for its happy atmosphere, career opportunities amongst many other beautiful highlights, but Spike Lee felt this was the right time to have a flash back on the turbulence he has faced in his professional career and all it took to ignite the already lit flame of anger was Chris Rock asking Spike a question on Red Hook Summer on if the film would...Read Full Story
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CHICAGO – Spike Lee has been getting national buzz again after the Sundance premiere of his controversial “Red Hook Summer” and the ageless Denzel Washington is back in the spotlight as his latest action vehicle, “Safe House,” premieres in ...
While this writer hasn't seen it yet and therefore perhaps shouldn't speak out of turn, it still seems that one of the most depressing things about the most recent 2012 Sundance Film Festival is that after all the sales and several dozen films purchased by myriad distributors, no one has stepped up to buy Spike Lee's "Red Hook Summer." Our review from the festival said, "Ultimately, Lee’s clarity of vision hasn’t been this sharp or unique...
Spike Lee (born March 20, 1957) is a film director best known for his work on "Malcolm X", "Do the Right Thing," and "He Got Game." He's also a huge sports fan. See more about Spike Lee here.
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Do the Right Thing is a 1989 motion picture produced , written , directed and starred in by Spike Lee and released by Universal Pictures . The film tells a tale of bigotry and ...
Shelton Jackson Lee (born March 20 , 1957 , in Atlanta, Georgia ), better known as Spike Lee , is an Emmy Award - winning, and Academy Award - nominated American film director ...