Spike Lee is back this year with Red Hook Summer, a film that continues his chronicle of Brooklyn living, as begun in She's Gotta Have It and continued through Do The Right Thing, Crooklyn, and other films. This time the focus is Flik (Jules Brown), a kid who leaves Atlanta for a summer to live…
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There's a good movie somewhere in the middle of the 130 minutes comprising Spike Lee's Red Hook Summer. A focused movie. A movie that has a lot to say about the conflict between younger and older generations, faith versus religion, young love and even technology. That movie is in there. Unfortunately, Red Hook Summer as it…
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Fortunes can turn around fast in filmmaking. Earlier this year, Spike Lee was complaining about the difficulty financing new films. Then only weeks later he was kicking off the shoot for a film called Red Hook Summer, and then he was signed to direct a new version of Oldboy, possibly with Josh Brolin starring. Most…
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The last time we heard from Spike Lee he was bemoaning his inability to get a film financed. After Miracle at St. Anna flopped three years ago, he couldn't even get moneymen interested in a sequel to his most successful film, Inside Man, despite having stars like Clive Owen ready to go. There's the report…
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