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Dec 4, 2015 · Movie More Info 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 ...
Dec 3, 2015 · December 3, 2015. Teyonah Parris in 'Chi-Raq.'. Courtesy of Roadside Attractions and Amazon Studios. Here’s Spike Lee at his ballsiest. Who else would take Aristophanes’ Lysistrata, set in ...
Nov 30, 2015 · With “Chi-Raq,” Spike Lee has made his most essential film in years, channeling issues as old as Aristophanes’ “Lysistrata,” on which the film is loosely based, through the voices of the young men and women in the murder capital of the United States. More people are dying on the South Side of Chicago than anywhere else in the country ...
Dec 2, 2015 · Chi-Raq is a rowdy, remarkably funny film that isn't particularly concerned with how tourists see the city, or where they spend their money. Lee wants results, and he's willing to go broad and ...
Nov 23, 2015 · In a series of interviews with the “Chi-Raq” cast, the actors (and one real-life inspiration) reflected on the movie, the city and the controversy. Teyonah Parris, and Nick Cannon, two of the ...
Dec 11, 2015 · 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 le...
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