4 Little Girls
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Spike Lee - still doing the right thing...movie of our time". It's not to belittle Lee's other films, including Malcolm X or Inside Man, or his two great documentaries 4 Little Girls about the 1963 church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama and the Katrina documentary When the... In this article: Spike Lee, Do the Right Thing, Pizza, New York, Jim Jarmusch, Brooklyn, NYU, Clive Owen, and Inside Man |
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CBS | September 15, 2009
Filmmaker Lee tells UT students to follow passions
...and internal racism, and help each other. Lee's credits include Academy Awards nominations as screenwriter of "Do the Right Thing" and producer/director of the documentary "4 Little Girls." Information from: The Knoxville News Sentinel,...
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boston.com - Latest movie news | January 17, 2009
Spike Lee's a Sundance kid with `Passing Strange'
...roles. Even with a career that includes Academy Award nominations for original screenplay ("Do the Right Thing") and documentary ("4 Little Girls"), Lee was like many other Sundance novices, thrilled that he had a chance to meet festival...
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Turkish Daily News | October 10, 2008
Ambitious 'Anna' never hits targets - Turkish Daily News Oct 10, 2008
...film. After acclaimed character dramas ("Malcolm X," "Do the Right Thing"), some ill-fated comedies ("Bamboozled," "She Hate Me") and even a documentary or two ("4 Little Girls"), Lee takes on a big, old-fashioned war picture. It's hard...
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EURweb.com | July 10, 2009
EUR DVD REVIEW: Do the Right Thing
...a splash upon arriving in theaters. Arguably Spike LeeaEUR™s best film (although some might make the case for SheaEUR™s Gotta Have It, Four Little Girls, Bamboozled, School Daze or The Original Kings of Comedy), this refreshingly-frank...
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The Stranger - Slog | May 27, 2009
Brother to Brother
...movie Spike's made that is available on DVD.) Malcolm X is beyond brilliant - the way some of the shots were framed is incredible - Do the Right Thing is one of the most important movies of the last 50 years - 25th Hour rocks, When the Levees...
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The Seattle Times | May 28, 2009
Spike Lee, and other SIFF sightings
...his discoveries. Best of all were the carefully chosen film clips, especially from "Do the Right Thing," "4 Little Girls" and "When the Levees Broke," which demonstrated how empty modern American cinema would be without him. So far in the...
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www.washingtonpost.com | April 24, 2008
Spike Lee teams with Nokia on cell phone movie
...in 1998. The film's theme will evolve around the way music tells the story of humanity, and people can submit text, music, video or images at certain times between now and August 21 to http://www.nokiaproductions.com. Nokia will...
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4 Little Girls is a 1997 historical documentary film about the 1963 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, USA. It was directed by Spike Lee and nominated for an Academy Award for "Best Documentary".
The incident is the subject of the 1964 song "Birmingham Sunday" by Richard and Mimi Fariña. The song was used in the opening sequence of the film, performed by Mimi's sister, Joan Baez.
4 Little Girls premiered Wednesday, June 25, 1997 at the Guild 50th Street Theatre in New York City. It was produced by 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks, Lee’s production company, and Home Box Office (HBO).
Lee first became interested in making a movie about the Birmingham bombing as a film student at New York University in 1983. He read a New York Times Magazine article about the incident and was so moved, he wrote to Chris McNair, the father of victim Denise, asking for permission to tell her story on film. McNair politely turned down the young, aspiring filmmaker’s offer. “I was entering my first semester at N.Y.U. So my skills as a filmmaker were nonexistent, and at that time, Chris McNair was still hesitant to talk about it,” Lee said in a 1997 interview with Industry Central’s The Director’s Chair. “I believe timing is everything. So it took ten years of Chris thinking about this and ten years of myself making movies for this to come together.”
Lee also said his original plan was for the film to be a dramatic reproduction of the incident, but he later decided that format would not be the best way to tell this important story.
- Name:
- 4 Little Girls
- Country of Origin:
- United States
- Release Date:
- July 09, 1997
- Directed By:
- Spike Lee
- Produced by:
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- Spike Lee
- Samuel D. Pollard
- Editor:
- Samuel D. Pollard
- Cinematography:
- Ellen Kuras
- Music By:
- Terence Blanchard
- Distributed By:
- HBO Documentary
- Length:
- 102 mins
- Language:
- English
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