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Lee's first feature film, She's Gotta Have It, was released three years later in 1986. Lee directed, produced, wrote, and acted in his first three feature films: She's Gotta Have It, School Daze, and Do the Right Thing, and has since starred or acted in others.
In February 2024, it was announced that Spike Lee was confirmed as the director of the remake of High and Low (1963), directed by Akira Kurosawa with Denzel Washington to star. Academic career and teaching. In 1991, Lee taught a course at Harvard about filmmaking.
With his School Daze (1988) profits, Lee went on to make his landmark film, Do the Right Thing (1989), a movie based specifically his own neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York. The movie portrayed the racial tensions that emerge in the Bed-Stuy neighborhood on one very hot day.
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Spike Lee, Barry Jenkins, and Chaz Ebert- Spike Lee and Wesley Snipes in Jungle Fever (1991)
- Spike Lee in Jungle Fever (1991)
- Spike Lee and Veronica Webb in Jungle Fever (1991)
- Spike Lee and Fran Lebowitz in Pretend It's a City (2021)
- Spike Lee in Dear (2020)
- Spike Lee in 20 Feet from Stardom (2013)
- Spike Lee, Danny Aiello, and Anthony Barboza in Do the Right Thing (1989)
In 2006, director Spike Lee created an astonishing record of the cataclysmic effects of Hurricane Katrina on the city of New Orleans with his epic award-winning documentary, When the Levees Broke. Five years later, Lee returns to New Orleans, to see how the ambitious plans to reinvent the Crescent City were playing out.
Sep 28, 2022 · Spike Lee was making amateur films by age 20 and won a Student Academy Award for his graduate thesis film. Lee drew attention with his first feature, She's Gotta Have It — one of the most...
Spike Lee's energetic and clever bank-heist thriller is a smart genre film that is not only rewarding on its own terms, but manages to subvert its pulpy trappings with wit and skill.
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Jul 22, 2020 · By the time 1989 rolled around, Lee created his masterpiece, a film that was a critically praised film in the rise of the indie filmmaking scene that took Hollywood by storm in the '90s. Here is a look at the first 10 movies of Spike Lee's career.
