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Re: Spike Lee

#51 Post by Dead or Deader » Thu May 19, 2016 3:41 pm

Spike Lee essential films for aspiring directors.


Some dubious choices from the list. No Silents represented, nor many foreign classics, while Mel Gibson somehow gets to occupied a spot on Spike list. The list also just strikes me as little too bland, at least for my own particular idiosyncratic taste.

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Re: Spike Lee

#52 Post by ando » Sat May 21, 2016 5:58 pm

First, there are too many on his list. After four or five, particularly if its off the cuff, it becomes a list of one's preferences and tastes rather rather than a strictly considered sample.

With the operative words being aspiring directors three films came immediately to mind and I wondered if Spike had them on his list. Only one: Rashomon.

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Re: Spike Lee

#53 Post by FrauBlucher » Sat May 21, 2016 7:44 pm

Not surprising that he left out many of his very successful contemporaries.

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Re: Spike Lee

#54 Post by colinr0380 » Wed Aug 15, 2018 3:18 am

This is just a quick note to thank Dark Imbecile for doing a great job in the big task of tidying up, removing dead links, updating Spike Lee's filmography and adding forum and web resources to the first post!

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Re: Spike Lee

#55 Post by DarkImbecile » Mon Jan 14, 2019 6:34 pm


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Re: Spike Lee

#58 Post by The Fanciful Norwegian » Tue Nov 17, 2020 2:12 pm

Lee's next feature will be a "SINGIN', ALL DANCIN' MUSICAL" based on an Esquire article about the creation of Viagra.

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Re: Spike Lee

#59 Post by beamish14 » Tue Nov 17, 2020 3:25 pm

The Fanciful Norwegian wrote:
Tue Nov 17, 2020 2:12 pm
Lee's next feature will be a "SINGIN', ALL DANCIN' MUSICAL" based on an Esquire article about the creation of Viagra.

This sounds more promising thatn Prince of Cats.

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Re: Spike Lee

#60 Post by DarkImbecile » Sun Mar 07, 2021 5:53 pm

Good New Yorker interview with Lee, in which he touches at one point on a new project:
Vinson Cunningham wrote:...I saw in Deadline that you wrote the script for a musical about Viagra?

Co-wrote. My co-writer, his name is Kwame Kwei-Armah. Black British guy. It’ll be my first singing-and-dancing, swinging musical. And it’s about how Viagra came to the world, no pun intended, through Pfizer.

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Re: Spike Lee

#61 Post by knives » Sun Mar 07, 2021 6:01 pm

He’s made musicals before so I’m curious what his distinction on this is?

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Re: Spike Lee

#62 Post by Swift » Mon Mar 08, 2021 4:16 pm

It's his first musical about swingers?

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