Spike Lee says ‘Gone With The Wind’ should be screened but with “historical social context”

Blake Shelton and girlfriend Gwen Stefani have given fans two amazing quarantine songs about the importance of being together, and both tunes have been huge hits. Their nearly five year romance has proved to be an amazing professional relationship music-wise, and Blake’s good buddy Luke Bryan, 44, is giving him some fun ribbing about Blake riding her coattails.

The Last Black Man in San Francisco, or his part in Netflix and Spike Lee's Da 5 Bloods (he was phenomenal in both). He plays the main character in Lovecraft Country, a Korean War veteran named Atticus Freeman, opposite Jurnee Smollett as Letitia 'Leti" Lewis.

Also Read: Focus Features Closes Deal for James Gray's 'Armageddon Time' (Exclusive)During Walak’s four-year run, the studio’s films have garnered an impressive 28 Academy Awards nominations from prestige pics like Jeff Nichols’ “Loving,” Joe Wright’s “Darkest Hour,” Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Phantom Thread,” Spike Lee’s “BlacKkKlansman” and Kasi Lemmons’ “Harriet.”Walak, who was based in London for much of his time at the studio, was instrumental in championing the move of “Downton Abbey” to the

Jeff Cornell Hot on the heels of his 2019 solo release “Absolute Zero,” Bruce Hornsby returns with its follow-up, “Non-Secure Connection.” The effort picks up where the last one left off and features some of the same collaborators, including Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon and Rob Moose, yet also sees Hornsby teaming up with the Shins’ James Mercer, singer/songwriter Jamila Woods, Living Colour guitarist Vernon Reid and the late Leon Russell, who appears via a 25-year-old demo.Hornsby’s last two

HBO Max has added an informative introduction to the spoof Western classic Blazing Saddles on its streaming service.In a similar move to its other Turner Classic Movies (TCM) title Gone With The Wind, HBO’s new streaming platform has now included a presentation to explain the social context of Mel Brooks’ 1974 movie in order to warn and educate viewers of its outdated ideas.The spoof Western, which stars Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder, contains “racist language and attitudes”, says TCM host

Blazing Saddles is currently streaming on HBO Max, along with a new introduction that automatically plays before the Mel Brooks classic begins. It is unclear exactly when the intro was added to the 1974 comedy classic starring the lateCleavon Little and the late Gene Wilder, but it was sometime after the film premiered on the streaming service in July.

In the summer of 1989, less than two months after the release of Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing, a dramatization of racial tensions between Black and Italian Americans in Brooklyn, Yusuf Hawkins was shot to death for being a Black boy in a white neighborhood just a few miles from the film's Bedford-Stuyvesant setting. Sixteen years old, Hawkins was the victim of an impromptu mob in Bensonhurst that had gathered to attack another Black youth rumored to be dating an Italian-American girl.

politics-themed episode that was shelved by ABC in February 2018 is now airing on Hulu, series creator Kenya Barris announced Monday. The episode, titled «Please, Baby, Please,» is named after the 2006 children's book written by director Spike Lee and his wife, producer Tonya Lewis Lee.The episode features Dre (Anthony Anderson) reading the book to his son Devante, and deals with institutional discrimination in America, discussing, among other things, President Donald Trump and NFL players

Being in lockdown or quarantine has done some strange things to people. Obviously, many of us are frustrated and bored, wondering when a COVID-19 vaccine will be available and we can return to some semblance of normality.

Ava DuVernay has been selected to receive the 27th annual Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize in honor of her ongoing efforts to amplify the voices of women and people of color through her film and TV work. DuVernay becomes the fourth filmmaker, and first female director, after Ingmar Bergman, Robert Redford and Spike Lee to receive the esteemed prize.

Alexandra Del Rosario Associate Editor/Nights & Weekends13th and When They See Us director Ava DuVernay is the latest artist to receive the annual Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize.With Thursday’s announcement from the Gish Prize Trust, founded by actresses Dorothy and Lillian Gish, DuVernay is the fourth filmmaker to receive the honor. The director follows past honorees Ingmar Bergman, Robert Redford and Spike Lee.

Spike Lee, George Lucas, Frank Marshall, Martin Scorsese and AFI chief Bob Gazzale pay tribute to Tom Pollock, the former chairman of Universal Pictures, who died Saturday night at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles following a heart attack. Pollock, who was 77, also served as chairmanof the American Film Institute and co-founded the Montecito Picture Co.

Dino-Ray Ramos Associate Editor/ReporterEXCLUSIVE: FIlmmaking icon Spike Lee will be honored by the Location Managers Guild International (LMGI) with the Trailblazer Award at the 7th Annual LMGI Awards. The virtual awards show is set for October 24 at 2pm PT and will be hosted by Isaiah Mustafa (It Chapter Two, Shadowhunters).The news of Lee’s award was announced by LMGI President Mike Fantasia and Awards Co-chairs Lori Balton and John Rakich.

ongoing pandemic.«The names you already know are doing brand new things this year, and there's a whole crop of exciting new names to discover,» said TIFF artistic director and co-head, Cameron Bailey.The 45th Toronto International Film Festival will open on Sept. 10 with Spike Lee's concert film,, and run through Sept.

Also Read: 'The French Dispatch,' 'Soul' Make the Cannes 2020 Lineup As Festival Reveals the Movies It Would Have ShownAs previously announced, Spike Lee’s film “David Byrne’s American Utopia,” a document of Byrne’s Broadway show, will be the opening-night film on Sept. 10.

Little Shop Of Horrors, School Daze, House Party, Martin and My Wife And Kids, Tisha Campbell’s comedic timing, spirited character portrayals and accomplished musical skills have won her a legion of fans the world over.NME sat down for an exclusive chat with the two-time NAACP Image Award winner at Fox Studios in Hollywood to talk Spike Lee, being responsible for a number of today’s most famous pop culture references, and how her career almost ended before it began.“Yeah, I lived in Bayswater –

EarthGang‘s OLU has posted a cover of Marvin Gaye‘s 1971 hit ‘What’s Going On’ – check it out below.The musician explained that he shared his rendition of Gaye’s plea for peace track after repeated viewings of Spike Lee’s Vietnam veteran war film Da 5 Bloods.Dedicating the song to his father, OLU wrote in an op-ed accompanying the rendition for DJ Booth that he hopes “greed and hate die”, in an apparent reference to the divisions Gaye sang about in his anti-war song from the ’70s.“I hope that

Especially in his most recent works, which have increasingly taken on the qualities of essay film in their use of archive and metatext, Spike Lee has always been interested in how the history of American film and racism intersect.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterJonathan Majors is on — well, a major roll at the moment. Majors has appeared in a string of high-profile features in a matter of a few short years.

HBO's Spike Lee–directed filmed version of David Byrne’s American Utopia Broadway stage play is set to open the virtual Toronto Film Festival on Sept. 10, fest organizers said on Tuesday (July 22). David Byrne's American Utopia features the Talking Heads frontman and 11 musical artists from around the world performing songs from the 2018 album American Utopia, as well as songs from Byrne's Talking Heads and solo catalog.