All posts tagged "Spike Lee"
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Movie News
Movie News: Oliver Stone on Scarface; Best Opening Scenes; Film Abides
July 22, 2020In today’s Movie News Rundown: Oliver Stone looks back on Scarface, a film that threatened his...
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Movie News
Toronto Film Festival To Open with Spike Lee’s David Byrne Film American Utopia
July 22, 2020The 45th annual Toronto Film Festival will open with the Spike Lee film American Utopia, Lee’s...
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Movie News
We Watched Do the Right Thing Again (Podcast)
July 2, 2020Do the Right Thing still feels sharply relevant after 31 years: Every group feels aggrieved, lashing...
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Movie News
Author Viet Thanh Nguyen Cannot Recommend Da 5 Bloods
June 28, 2020Vietnamese-American author Viet Thanh Nguyen’s personal mission is to watch every Hollywood movie about the Vietnam...
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Movie News
Spike Lee Explains How 4 Little Girls Shows the Power of Film
June 26, 2020In July 1997, Spike Lee was preparing for an Oscar-qualification run of his documentary 4 Little...
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Movie News
Movie News: Mulan Rumbles; Spike Lee and the FBI; Gone With the Wind Returns
June 25, 2020In today’s Movie News Rundown: Things don’t look great for the Mulan release date; how a Spike...
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Movie News
Why Spike Lee Didn’t De-Age His Da 5 Bloods Stars
June 19, 2020The new Spike Lee film Da 5 Bloods flashes back roughly half a century — but...
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Directing
Da 5 Bloods and Cross-Generational Trauma (Low Key Podcast)
June 18, 2020Today’s episode of the Low Key podcast covers the Spike Lee film Da 5 Bloods, which follows...
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Movie News
How Da 5 Bloods’ Newton Thomas Sigel Helped Spike Lee Bring Some Very Specific Shots to Vietnam
June 8, 2020Despite the far-off setting of the new Spike Lee joint, Da 5 Bloods, cinematographer Newton Thomas Sigel made...
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Movie News
Movie News Roundup: California Stays Home; Ben Affleck Arrives Early; Paul Scheer Brings Cheer
March 20, 2020Welcome to our Movie News Roundup, where we’ll get to the point: Californians are told to...
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Movie News
Spike Lee to Hold Special Malcolm X Screening at Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea Film Festival
February 26, 2020(Update: Nevermind. The Red Sea Film Festival has been delayed by fears of the coronavirus. Below...
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Articles - Festivals
Oliver Stone to Head Jury at Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea Film Festival
February 17, 2020Oliver Stone will lead the jury of the first Red Sea International Film Festival in Jeddah,...
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Directing
Stefon Bristol’s See You Yesterday Melds Time Travel and the Harsh Realities of African-American Life Seamlessly
June 4, 2019Stefon Bristol’s See You Yesterday is full of surprises. Produced by Spike Lee, Bristol’s film takes...
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Cinema Law
Indie Law: How to Secure and Hold the Rights to Your Project
February 14, 2019In the documentary on legendary producer Robert Evans, The Kid Stays in the Picture, Evans explains early and often that...
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Distribution
A Teller’s Market: How To Tell Your Own Story and Lay Bare Your Personal Brand
December 13, 2018Tasked with unpacking the most overlooked, underestimated part of film marketing and distribution, I considered examples...
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Other
Keep on Keepin’ On: Mario Van Peebles on How His Father Brought Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song to Life
May 10, 2018A trailblazer in radical 1970s cinema, Melvin van Peebles’ home-grown experimental milestone gained a new audience...
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Directing
How They Did It: Tips on Recreating Period, VFX, and Big Action on a Low Budget From the Director of Gangster Land
December 6, 2017“A lot of times you get credit for stuff in your movie that you didn’t intend...
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Directing
Reels On Wheels: Watch How Spike Lee’s Dolly Shots Glide Characters Through Their Frenzied Environments (Video)
March 20, 2017The dolly shot: It’s an eye-popping technique. The characters it frames seem to float through the...
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Acting
Santa Barbara International Film Festival 2017: Maltin Modern Master Denzel Washington Reflects on His Career
February 7, 2017Few names inspire as much respect as Denzel Washington’s. Audiences know him from, well, countless stellar...
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Documentary
Subjective Nonfiction: Jeff Feuerzeig on New Journalism, Punk Rock and Author: The JT LeRoy Story
September 12, 2016“If you’re purely after facts, please buy yourself the phone directory of Manhattan. It has four...
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Festivals
Sundance 2016: See Indie Film’s Movers and Shakers in Jeff Vespa’s Beautiful @Portraits
January 29, 2016Jeff Vespa has been the Sundance Film Festival’s official photographer since 2003, a post that gives...
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Cinematography
"Lenses are the Protein You Choose When You’re Cooking:" an Interview with Matthew Libatique
December 3, 2015You could say that cinematographer Matthew Libatique is having a banner year, with F. Gary Gray’s...
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Directing
Postcards from Colombia: The Making of Josef Wladyka’s Manos Sucias
April 30, 2015When Josef Wladyka, director of Manos Sucias, arrived in Buenaventura, Colombia to shoot his feature about...
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Things Learned
Things I’ve Learned (from Spike Lee): Director Julius Onah of The Girl is in Trouble
April 3, 2015Nigerian-born, Philippines-and-Virginia-bred director Julius Onah met Spike Lee as a graduate film student at NYU’s Tisch...
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