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Spike Lee

OFCS 2020 awards winners announced

Fri, Jan 29, 2021
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And the winners are…

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as I’ve been saying: YES, the cultural context and content of a film MATTERS

Thu, Jun 25, 2020
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But now a man is saying it, so maybe someone will listen?

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my picks for tonight’s 91st Academy Awards (the Oscars for 2018’s films) (winners indicated)

Mon, Feb 25, 2019
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I correctly guessed 9 out of the 24 categories, which is appalling. I shall be in my corner reprimanding myself.

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AWFJ 2018 EDA Awards winners announced

Thu, Jan 10, 2019
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Our most honored films are Roma (five awards), The Favourite (four awards), and Can You Ever Forgive Me? (three awards).

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OFCS 2018 awards winners announced

Wed, Jan 02, 2019
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Roma wins four awards including Best Picture; Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is Best Animated Feature.

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Chi-Raq green light

Chi-Raq movie review: sex as a weapon of peace

Thu, Dec 01, 2016
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Furious, funny, and deadly serious, this is an audacious, searing satire that swells into a raw, electrifying fantasy about how we might put aside savagery.

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evening clickbait: the Spike Lee Oldboy poster controversy gets weirder; apparently Philomena is unfair to nice Catholic nuns who saved innocent babies from whorish mothers

Sat, Nov 30, 2013
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Stuff I found on the Net today.

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Oldboy trailer: because people don’t want to read subtitles

Wed, Nov 06, 2013
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I don’t understand why someone like Spike Lee is covering another filmmaker’s vision…

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Red Hook Summer (trailer)

Fri, Jul 06, 2012
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Well. That is pretty spectacularly unenlightening.

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Tyler Perry tells Spike Lee to go to hell; an apology for ‘Superman Returns’; Canadians hate loud TV ads; more: leftover links

Mon, Apr 25, 2011
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Plus: Even rightwing bloggers admit Atlas Shrugged sucks; Restrepo director Tim Hetherington killed covering fighting in Libya; Jodie Foster on yet another way Hollywood hates women…

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