Spike Lee

Happy Saturday POU! We finish up the week with the last 5 films written and directed by Spike Lee before the upcoming release of his latest film BlackKKKlansman. Bamboozled is a 2000 satirical comedy-drama film written and directed by Spike Lee about a modern televised minstrel show featuring black actors donning blackface makeup and the resulting violent fallout from … [Read more...] about Saturday Open Thread: The Filmography of Spike Lee

Happy Friday POU! We continue our look at films written and directed by Spike Lee. Crooklyn is a 1994 semi-autobiographical film co-written and directed by Spike Lee. Lee and his siblings Cinque Lee and Joie Lee co-wrote this nostalgic but unglamorized look at a family growing up in Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood in Brooklyn in the 1970s, inspired by their own … [Read more...] about Friday Open Thread: The Filmography of Spike Lee

Good Morning POU! We continue to look at the movies written and directed by Spike Lee. (Goodness, Denzel was so damn fine in this movie) Mo' Better Blues is a 1990 musical drama film starring Denzel Washington, Wesley Snipes, and Spike Lee. It follows a period in the life of fictional jazz trumpeter Bleek Gilliam (played by Washington) as a series of bad decisions … [Read more...] about Wednesday Open Thread: The Filmography of Spike Lee

In 1985, Lee began work on his first feature film, She's Gotta Have It. With a budget of $175,000, he shot the film in two weeks. When the film was released in 1986, it grossed over $7,000,000 at the U.S. box office. The movie focuses on the iconic character Nola Darling; a young, attractive Brooklynite who juggles three suitors: the polite and well-meaning Jamie … [Read more...] about Tuesday Open Thread: The Filmography of Spike Lee