American Utopia feels as much like a balm as it is a surprisingly direct call to political action and social betterment.
The jazz trumpeter and composer discusses the evolving nature of his collaborations with Spike Lee.
Artists understand violence as a transmission of energy that’s repulsive yet hypnotic.
Lost in so much bombast is the kind of story about its main characters’ lives that could’ve affirmed Spike Lee’s critique of America.
Criterion’s new transfer brings out the unruly beauty of Spike Lee’s lurid, violent, daring political satire.
It marks a specific convergence in Lee’s career, when his confidence as a filmmaker aligned with the boldness of his flourishes.
This release attests to the enduring power of Gast’s documentary.
With this extraordinary transfer, Criterion honors the profound hothouse intensity of Spike Lee’s greatest film.
After winning his second DGA award last night, there’s no reason to believe that Cuarón won’t complete the hat trick at the Oscars.
This disc is barebones, so Spike Lee fans will have settle for a solid transfer of the film itself when relishing this fo’ real, fo’ real shit at home.
Hopefully the arguments against Capernaum from the more discerning jury members will be strong enough to keep Nadine Labaki’s film from taking the Palme d’Or.
The film registers an awareness for the narcotic qualities of cinema, particularly films that address matters of race.
Tellingly, Pass Over’s best moments are the documentary segments that frame the filmed performance.
The sensibility of Spike Lee’s Netflix series offers hope for a country riven by ignorance and hatred.
The ingrained self-hatred of its characters reflect outward toward those who remind them of themselves.
This bold, imaginative, infuriatingly neglected work of expressionist agitprop receives the gorgeous transfer it deserves.
Chi-Raq is a Spike Lee joint in the urgent sociopolitical register of Radio Raheem’s boombox.
Redeeming a House of Fire: Ashley Clark’s Facing Blackness: Media and Minstrelsy in Spike Lee’s Bamboozled
After reading the book, the film remains a challenge: narratively, stylistically, temperamentally.
A dizzying hall-of-mirrors stunt, a horror remake as autobiographical X-ray, and a fantasy that serves as a cleansing creative exorcism.
Chief among the film’s beauties is the simplicity of the setting itself.