Spike Lee

...for atmospheric mysteries and noir films. Along with Jim Jarmusch's "Stranger Than Paradise," Alex Cox's "Repo Man" and Spike Lee's "She's Gotta Have It," Wang's "Chan Is Missing" was a touchstone of the early-'80s independent-film...

In this article: Wayne Wang, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, Hollywood, San Francisco, Chan Is Missing, Maid in Manhattan, Yiyun Li, The Center of the World, Because of Winn-Dixie, and Hong Kong

...Luther Mahoney; on The Wire he plays a medical examiner. Early in his career he had minor appearances in several Spike Lee films, such as She's Gotta Have It and Do the Right Thing. He was portrayed (as a child) by Travis Kyle Davis in the...

In this article: Do the Right Thing, Dog, Fallout 3, Travel Channel, Annenberg Foundation, Travis Kyle Davis, Ron Dellums, and Nickelodeon

...as the female Judd Apatow. If Spike Lee could rise above the "black Woody Allen" claims that greeted "She's Gotta Have It," Shelton should be able to weather her somewhat offensive comparison as well. Besides, she should be amassing so...

In this article: Zack and Miri Make a Porno, I Love You, Man, Pineapple Express, Lonely Planet, and Forgetting Sarah Marshall

...Georgia in 1957. Lee's father was a jazz musician and his mother an English teacher. When Lee was very young the family moved to Brooklyn, New York, first to Cobble Hill where his was the only black family in a predominantly...

In this article: Do the Right Thing, Pizza, New York, Jim Jarmusch, Brooklyn, NYU, Clive Owen, and Inside Man

...Bob Dylan. Olatunji composed music for the Broadway theatrical and Hollywood film productions of Raisin in the Sun. He assisted Bill Lee with the music for his son Spike Lee's hit film She's Gotta Have It. Olatunji was known for...

In this article: Babatunde Olatunji, Drums of Passion, John Coltrane, Carlos Santana, Morehouse College, Horace Silver, John Hammond, Nikita Khrushchev, Sikiru Adepoju, and Bill Lee

...chamber" and turned into "a war machine." Spike Lee, whose "She's Gotta Have It" screened in 1986, notes how the Fortnight was the fest of choice for U.S. indie filmers, "the Sundance of its time." Deleau calls it a cuckoo who went from one...

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She's Gotta Have It She's Gotta Have It is a 1986 comedy-drama film written and directed by Spike Lee. It was also Lee's first feature-length film. The films stars Tracy Camilla Johns, Tommy Redmond Hicks and John Canada Terrell. Nola...

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...world. The film, an intelligent comedy shot in black-and-white with one sequence of color, places--for among the first time--a young, bright... SHE'S GOTTA HAVE IT formally introduced the name Spike Lee to audiences all over the world. The...

In this article: She's Gotta Have It, Rotten Tomatoes, Mars Blackmon, Rashomon, Bill Lee, Meet the Browns, and Woody Allen

...and John Jopson's One Night with Blue Note (1985). He continued his collaboration with Spike Lee on five more films, including She's Gotta Have It (1986) and Do the Right Thing (1989). Their last collaboration was on Malcolm X in 1992, the...

In this article: Ernest Dickerson, David Simon, She's Gotta Have It, The Wire, American Film Institute, John Sayles, Miracle at St Anna, and Bruce Springsteen