Spike Lee To Receive Chaplin Award At In-Person Lincoln Center Gala

God bless, Spike Lee, seriously. And 3/4ths of this “‘NYC Epicenters 9/11➔2021½’” HBO documentary is pretty incredible.

Spike Lee is responding to critics of his upcoming HBO documentary series “NYC Epicenters 9/11-2021½”, who have called out the filmmaker for including interviews with conspiracy theorists in the project.

The New York Times from Monday explained why one episode of his documentary series on the anniversary of 9/11 includes interviews with conspiracy theorists about how the towers fell, adding that he shares some of their questions. As part of his HBO doc series “NYC Epicenters 9/11-2021½,” Lee in the final episode interviews members of the conspiracy group Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth.

controversial filmmaker is dropping bombshell statements about 9/11 conspiracy theories while on the promotion trail for his new HBO documentary series, “New York Epicenters: 9/11-2021½.”The“Do the Right Thing” director has now admitted that he doesn’t buy into “official explanations” of the terrorist attacks that devastated the world on September 11, 2001, while speaking with the New York Times on Monday.In addition to the usual talking heads — Mayor Bill de Blasio, Rep.

Ethan Shanfeld Spike Lee said he still has “questions” about exactly what happened on 9/11.The New York director — whose new docuseries “NYC Epicenters: 9/11 – 2021½” explores New York City’s darkest day and provides access to those involved — said in a new interview with The New York Times that “people [are] going to make up their own mind” about the 2001 terrorist attack and that he thinks people should “decide for themselves.”When asked why the series devotes a lot of time to questioning how

Caroline Framke Chief TV CriticAs the 20th anniversary of 9/11 fast approaches, you’ll have no shortage of options should you want — for whatever reason —to watch a documentary about it. As a mere sampling: there’s “One Day in America” from National Geographic, “Generation 9/11” from PBS, “9/11: Inside the President’s War Room” from Apple TV Plus, and an entire day’s worth of programming on the History Channel.

Nobody loves New York like filmmaker Spike Lee, obviously. We know this because of his many, many films so intrinsically tethered to New York City, Da People’s Republic of Brooklyn, and the five boroughs, his many photo ops courtside at home team NBA games, and his larger than life presence in Fort Greene (arguably kind of quiet, actually, but his vibrant 40 Acres & A Mule HQ is hard to miss).

NYC EPICENTERS 9/11➔2021½,” focusing on the 20-year aftermath of the 9/11 terror attacks, is star-studded with a constellation of political and cultural New York luminaries.That is, except for one falling star: Andrew Cuomo.The disgraced governor, who resigned last week amidst a damning report revealing multiple instances of sexual harassment and facing a potential impeachment probe, is conspicuously absent from Lee’s trailer, which dropped on Monday.Celebrities including Busta Rhymes, Rosie

The prodigious Spike Lee doesn’t sleep. Following the one-two punch of back-to-back hit films in 2020—”Da 5 Bloods” and the live-concert doc, “David Byrne’s American Utopia“—Lee is back yet again and with a pretty monstrous project.

David Byrne’s American Utopia is coming to US cinemas for a special one-off showing.The acclaimed concert film, from director Spike Lee, is coming to cinemas in the US nationwide for a special one night showing on September 15.The event will also feature a new introduction from Byrne and will also show a never-before-seen conversation between Byrne and Lee, according to Deadline. American Utopia is a concert film documenting Byrne’s Broadway show of the same name.In a five star review of the

Spike Lee is one of the most acclaimed filmmakers in the world. Still, some of his best work, his profound and solemn humanist documentaries, are relatively unsung next to his more flashy narrative works, comparatively at least.

UPDATED, 9:50 AM: HBO said today that Spike Lee’s four-part documentary series NYC Epicenters 9/11-2021½ will premiere at 8 p.m. Sunday, August 22 on the premium cabler. Episodes 2 and 3 will air on subsequent Sundays leading up to the finale at 10 p.m. September 11 — the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks. The series also will stream on HBO Max. Read details of NYC Epicenters below.

David Byrne’s American Utopia, the Emmy-nominated special from director Spike Lee, is coming to movie theaters nationwide for a one-night-only event on September 15, Iconic Events Releasing, Participant, River Road Entertainment, Warner Music Entertainment, and HBO Entertainment announced today.

After navigating through the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 and mounting a hybrid edition, the New York Film Festival will return to its Lincoln Center base this fall.

Joni Mitchell is among the artists set to be honoured as part of the 2021 Kennedy Center Honors.Mitchell will receive a lifetime achievement award at the live awards ceremony on December 5 at the John F.

Spike Lee is not sorry about his International Film Festival gaffe. The 64-year-old American director and jury president over the film festival, accidentally revealed the Palme d’Or winner early Saturday night after an onstage mix-up, according to Deadline.

Spike Lee just threw it back to the Oscars mix-up of 2017, when La La Land was mistakenly announced as the Best Picture winner instead of Moonlight!

Spike Lee has apologized after slipping up and announcing the top winner at this year's Cannes Film Festival. On Saturday, the director announced that had won the 2021 Palme d'Or, but he was supposed to reveal a different prize winner instead. «I have no excuses.

The awards ceremony for the 74th Cannes Film Festival has started where it should have ended, with jury president Spike Lee mistakenly announcing that the serial killer odyssey Titane has won the festival's top honour, the Palme d'Or. If confirmed at the end of the show, it would make French director Julia Ducournau only the second female filmmaker to win the accolade.

by announcing the Palme d’Or winner early.The Da 5 Bloods director, who was head of this year’s jury, accidentally revealed Titane as the winner of the festival’s top prize midway through the ceremony last night (July 17) instead of at the end.He said in a press conference [via Deadline] that he “was very specific to speak to the people of Cannes and tell them that I apologise” but they told him to “forget about it”.“I have no excuses. I messed up.