Tag Archives: Spike Lee

Chi-Raq. Trailer. Dave Chapelle. Angela Bassett. Jennifer Hudson. Nick Cannon. Wesley Snipes. John Cusack.

Chi-Raq is a modern day adaptation of the ancient Greek play “Lysistrata” by Aristophanes. After the murder of a Child by a stray bullet, a group of women led by Lysistrata organize against the on-going violence in Chicago’s Southside creating a movement that challenges the nature of race, sex and violence in America and around the world.

Spike Lee. Essential Film List.

Spike Lee’s Essential Film List:

“Bad Lieutenant,” Abel Ferara (1992)

“Rashomon,” Akira Kurosawa (1950)

“Yojimbo,” “Akira Kurosawa (1961)

“Ran,” Akira Kurosawa (1985)

“Rear Window,” Alfred Hitchcock (1954)

“Vertigo,” Alfred Hitchcock (1958)

“North by Northwest,” Alfred Hitchcock (1959)

“Bonnie and Clyde,” Arthur Penn (1967) Read more of this post

Oldboy. Spike Lee. Josh Brolin. Trailer.

An advertising executive is kidnapped and held hostage for 20 years in solitary confinement. When he is inexplicably released, he embarks on an obsessive mission to discover who orchestrated his punishment, only to find he is still trapped in a web of conspiracy and torment.

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