![]() Boxing has produced more good films than other sports? "The Champ," "The Set-Up," "Body and Soul," "Rocky," "Raging Bull," "Hard Times," "Ali." Even Stanley Kubrick delved into it. That's why I like to try to get 'em, and right.Ģ. panning for trends, eh? Well, some of my associates growing up were Italian. Maybe you did a little bit of that in "Jungle Fever," too, and also in "Do the Right Thing," too. Yeah, you kinda did that in "Summer of Sam" yourself. The boxing you get as the setting, place, scene, historical backdrop make story seem even more real: Scorcese's '50s Italian Bronx. Beyond that? Because it's not really about boxing. Lee: Why is still the best? Because it's completely authentic. Depends on who's watching it, and what for. : Is "Raging Bull" still the best sports movie? ![]() We decided to remedy that unfortunate hole in our package by sending 's Ralph Wiley up to New York to ask noted filmmaker and sports fan Spike Lee 10 Burning Questions on everything celluloid ranging from why he loved Gene Hackman as Norman Dale even though "Hoosiers" made him uncomfortable to the future of sports movies (and the Knicks).ġ. However, none of these "experts" had ever been involved with the actual making of any movie. The film starred Chadwick Boseman.During the past four days, we've had a large number of people weighing in various sports movie-related issues for our Goes to the Movies package. ![]() Lee's Vietnam war film Da 5 Bloods was released on Netflix. Anna (2008), If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise (2010), Red Hook Summer (2012), Oldboy (2013), Da Sweet Blood of Jesus (2014), Chi-Raq (2015), Michael Jackson's Journey from Motown to Off the Wall (2016), BlacKkKlansman (2018) Other contributions from him are: When the Levees Broke (2006), Miracle at St. currently The Night Watchman (pre-production) and All the Invisible Children (2006) (filming). Sucker Free City, (TV) She Hate Me (2004), "Miracle's Boys," (mini) TV Series (6 episodes) and "Sucker Free City" (2005) TV Series. His recent films have included directing The Kings of Comedy (2001) Jim Brown, All American, 25th Hour, and Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet (2002) (segment "We Wuz Robbed"). His films are known for his uncompromising, provocative approach to controversial subject matter. Lee mentioned what he saw as Hollywood’s anti-Black bias, noting that, while Do the Right Thing, Malcolm X, and his documentary 4 Little Girls (1997) all received Academy Award nominations, he was continually denied an Oscar. Still others have condemned his treatment of his female characters. Others criticized his perpetuation of ethnic stereotypes, especially the Jewish characters in Mo’ Better Blues (1990) and the Italian-Americans in Summer of Sam (1999). Some observers complained about the excessive length of his films. With the notable exception of his film Malcolm X (1992), many of Lee’s later works received mixed reviews. Almost all of his next films dealt with issues of race and racism in the modern United States, sometimes with honest and justifiable fury Jungle Fever (1991) occasionally with magic and ironic humor Crooklyn (1994) and Get on the Bus (1996). The well-known Howard Beach incident, in which a Black man was chased and killed by rampaging white youths, was the inspiration for Lee’s third feature, Do the Right Thing (1989). His next film, centered on his experiences at Morehouse, was School Daze (1988). His father contributed music to She’s Gotta Have It and Mo’ Better Blues, and others his sister, Joie, played major roles in several productions and his brother, David Charles Lee, was the still photographer. Lee wrote, produced, directed, and edited the film and played a key-supporting role, setting up a career-long pattern of his style of involvement. His first feature film was She’s Gotta Have It (1986), a character study about the love life of a modern Black woman made on a $175,000 budget. Lee’s master’s thesis, the short subject Joe’s Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads earned him the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science’s Student Award. While attending these two schools, he met future collaborators, cinematographer Ernest Dickerson and co-producer Monty Ross. In 1978, he enrolled in New York University’s Graduate Film School. Lee graduated from John Dewey high school and majored in communications at Morehouse College, where he directed his first Super-8 films. He is a Black filmmaker, writer, actor, educator, and producer.įrom Atlanta, Georgia, Sheldon Jackson Lee (his name at birth) is the son of jazz composer Bill Lee and was raised in Brooklyn, New York. *Spike Lee was born on this date in 1957.
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