Spike Lee’s longtime collaborator talks about using new instruments in his latest score, honoring Black veterans, and representation in film composing.
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Spike Lee explores the painful history of Blackness in American warfare with this lengthy, but gripping, Vietnam epic.
Celebrities read letters from people whose lives they’ve touched in Apple TV+’s treacly new series.
Spike Lee’s Kickstarted remake of Ganja & Hess is more interesting than its negative reception belies.
Spike Lee’s filmed version of the Broadway rock musical captures the immediacy of the show in his own imitable style.
Spike Lee’s hamfisted misfire throws everything at the kitchen sink – income inequality, Watergate, lesbian stud service – and none of it sticks.
A riveting portraint of post-9/11 New York City, Spike Lee’s scintillating crime drama is one of his most intriguing explorations.
Neither audiences or critics knew what to make of Spike Lee’s 70s period piece that made up for in mood and style what it lacked in focus.
Black cinema (and American cinema as a whole) hasn’t been the same since the release of Spike Lee’s revolutionary New York drama.
One of Spike Lee’s most underrated films depicts a New York in which the more things change, the more racism stays the same.
Spike Lee’s biopic of the civil rights firebrand was a gripping, unforgettable cry of black rage and pain.
Spike Lee’s third film is a caustic, exuberant exploration of the politics of race in the ’80s, from colorism to the effectiveness of activism.
Spike Lee’s 1986 debut is a bold, if shaggy, milestone for the history of Black cinema.
For the month of March, we look back at the vibrant, confrontational, incisive work of one of American filmmaking’s most iconic figures.
Race, control, and patriarchy reign in July’s offerings from Criterion.
Spike Lee’s latest is one of his best, a funny, soulful blaxploitation-infused take on the ways the racism […]
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