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  • September 2008

    • Nothing Divine in Lee's Miracle

      Rotten Tomatoes  |  Sep 26, 08 1:41 PM CDT

      Nothing Divine in Lee's Miracle

      (Newser) - Miracle at St. Anna strives to be inspiring and powerful and epic, but Spike Lee's latest isn’t any of those things, critics say. “Mostly it's just unfocused, sprawling and badly in need of editing,” writes Claudia Puig of USA Today. Full of odd tonal shifts, stereotyped characters, and clichéd dialogue, Miracle is “muddled and diffuse,” writes Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly. Worse, “I had a hard time finding Spike Lee in it.” More »

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      film  • movie review  • World War II  • Spike Lee

    • Spike Refights WWII (and Other Directors)

      Salon  |  Sep 25, 08 8:50 PM CDT

      Spike Refights WWII (and Other Directors)

      (Newser) - Spike Lee hopes to set the record straight about the African American presence in WWII—but he also hopes to tell a good story. His new film, Miracle at St. Anna, tells the fictional tale of Buffalo Soldiers trapped in a Tuscan town, in his own inimitable style. "I made the decision that everyone speak their native language," he says of the dialogue. "This film is about barriers, language, culture, all that stuff. " More »

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      film  • Hollywood  • World War II  • film director  • Spike Lee

  • June 2008

    • Spike to Clint: 'We're Not on a Plantation'

      ABC News  |  Jun 7, 08 7:23 PM CDT

      Spike to Clint: 'We're Not on a Plantation'

      (Newser) - Clint Eastwood told him to “shut his face,” but Spike Lee is talking back in full force: “The man is not my father, and we’re not on a plantation,” he said. Lee further chided the star director for ignoring blacks in his WWII films, calling him "an angry old man" and saying, “Not everything was John Wayne, baby.” More »

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      film  • race  • movies  • World War II  • Clint Eastwood  • Spike Lee

    • Eastwood to Spike Lee: Shut Up

      Guardian (UK)  |  Jun 6, 08 11:35 AM CDT

      Eastwood to Spike Lee: Shut Up

      (Newser) - At 78, Clint Eastwood doesn’t have much patience for his current critic Spike Lee. The most influential African-American filmmaker has taken issue with the lack of black people in Flags of Our Fathers and, previously, with having a white man direct Bird , the 1998 Charlie Park biopic. "A guy like him should shut his face," the five-time Oscar winner told the Guardian . More »

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      film  • race  • movies  • film director  • Clint Eastwood  • Spike Lee

  • May 2008

    • Spike Lee Plans Jordan Documentary

      Variety  |  May 21, 08 12:41 PM CDT

      Spike Lee Plans Jordan Documentary

      (Newser) - You might remember Spike Lee's classic "Is it the shoes?" ads for Nike. But the director told a Cannes crowd he'll team up with Michael Jordan again for a different purpose: a documentary on the basketball legend, reports Variety . The NBA will finance the flick, which will feature unreleased footage from Jordan's last two pro seasons. More »

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      basketball  • NBA  • film  • documentary  • Cannes Film Festival  • Michael Jordan  • Spike Lee

  • March 2008

    • Whitney Biennial: Recession Art

      New York Times  |  Mar 7, 08 10:20 AM CST

      Whitney Biennial: Recession Art

      (Newser) - This weekend sees the opening in New York of the Whitney Biennial, the always controversial survey of contemporary American art. The theme this time around is lowered expectations, writes Holland Cutter for the New York Times , and the result is a modest, low-key, sparsely populated affair. "A biennial for a recession-bound time? That’s one impression it gives," writes Cotter. More »

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      Spike Lee  • Whitney Museum

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