Movie:do The Right Thing
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7 great movies about race in America to watch instead of 'Gone With the Wind' or 'The Help'
HBO Max has pulled the classic "Gone With the Wind" from streaming for its "racist depictions," but there are much more impactful films you can watch about race right now.
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How childhood friends from San Francisco became indie film champs with 'Last Black Man,' both a deep love letter to and stinging critique of their hometown
Writer-director Joe Talbot and Jimmie Fails talk about their journey together from a San Francisco park to getting their first film executive produced by Brad Pitt.
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Spike Lee on his long road from 'Do the Right Thing' to 'BlacKkKlansman'
Spike Lee is accustomed to being ahead of the curve. Lee remained “on it” over the subsequent three decades, using his status as Hollywood’s pre-eminent black director to address interracial romance in Jungle Fever, black activism in Get on the Bus and black representation in movies and television in Bamboozled. Having helped pave the way for that diversity of new voices (think directors like Allen Hughes, Ava DuVernay and Dee Rees) Lee’s own career ebbed and flowed.
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Director's Reel: Spike Lee on the Prescience of 'Do the Right Thing,' the 'Mockery' of Denzel's 'Malcolm X' Oscar Loss, and More
Spike Lee’s public persona — as an activist, as a provocateur, as a mouthpiece against injustice, and as New York’s No. 1 Knicks fan — sometimes threatens to overshadow his tremendous accomplishments as a filmmaker. Remarkably, Lee — who was awarded an honorary Oscar in November for his considerable career achievements — has never been nominated for a Best Director Academy Award, nor has ever had a Best Picture contender (he was nominated for Best Screenplay for Do the Right Thing, and for Best
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Spike Lee at Governors Awards: It’s Easier For a Black Person to Be President Than a Hollywood Studio Head
Spike Lee accepting his Honorary Oscar Just before the 7th annual Governors Awards on Saturday night, honoree Spike Lee told Yahoo Movies one thing about his acceptance speech: “I won’t be reading off a teleprompter, that’s for sure.” The 58-year-old writer-director was on hand to collect his Honorary Oscar at the Hollywood event, where he was being honored along with Gena Rowlands and Debbie Reynolds (who shared a recorded message since she was not in well enough health to attend). Lee was int
