She's Gotta Have It

...the only black family in a predominantly Italian-American neighbourhood before relocating to Fort Greene, the setting of his debut film She's Gotta Have It in 1986. The director attended the NYU film school where he was inspired by the...

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...as only one thing, as being black. And even during that time, you know, I was in "School Days," which was Spike Lee's second movie after "She's Gotta Have It." Soundbite of laughter) Ms. GUY: But again, you know, I was, what, 20, 23 when...

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...home, Brooklyn. It is the story of Nola Darling, a young black woman, a source of conversation both in and out of the film. The film's narrative style is taken from the challenges and pleasures of the competing views on who Nola truly...

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...movie bloggers herald Shelton 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,...

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...describe things in his own words » Part of its staying power is in its boldness, both in look and action. Lee's first two films, "She's Gotta Have It" (1986) and "School Daze" (1988), had marked him as a rising young filmmaker. But it was...

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...than acting out violent fantasies filled with shooting and crime and platform shoes. And, besides the film benefitting black people, "She's Gotta Have It" had an unprecedented impact on what we now know as the indie film market. In addition to...

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...further by seeming to promote a theretofore-unrecognized new Harlem Renaissance. From the jump, She's Gotta Have It announced that it wasn't going to define black life in terms of crime and poverty, just as it wasn't going to bind...

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Synopsis: SHE'S GOTTA HAVE IT formally introduced the name Spike Lee to audiences all over the 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......

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...from the get go as would later be celebrated in his Bed-Stuy/Brecht passion play Do the Right Thing. As in that particular masterpiece, She's Gotta Have It's characters talk into the camera, but they do so in service of a Rashomon-tinged...

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