Shot Topics
Spike Lee has a new documentary currently on HBO it’s called ‘If God Is Willing and da Creek Dont Rise’ He revisits New Orleans Five Years after his award-winning documentary on Hurricane Katrina. He also takes time out to investigate the awful tragedy that is widely known as the BP disaster. You ought a “Do The Right Thing” and check it out.
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PROPA!
NEW YORK DIRECTORS EDITION
SIDNEY LUMET
ok. technically he’s from philly,but the guy made dog day afternoon, network and serpico. he’s as new york as the other two guys come on!!
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Album of the Day
For me ‘The Clash’ are the only internationally successful band that approached their material from a London Perspective. The Rolling Stones embraced American Culture with Gusto. The Who did the same. Sure the Kinks wrote Waterloo Sunset but their London is a mythical one. An ideal of an old England, One that I was never a part of and only read about in text books. The Clash embraced my city and all its many colors and influences and I love em for that. Always entertaining. Doggedly political. Punk intelligensia..That’s why they earned the label “The Only Band That mattered”. London Calling is their most celebrated album.
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PROPA!
NEW YORK DIRECTORS EDITION
PART 2
SPIKE LEE
so good i mention him twice in one blog. consistent, provocative and he’s also the guy that made ‘do the right thing’ one of the greatest movies of all time.
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Film of the Day
Like many Jean Luc Godard films I find it hard to pinpoint exactly what it is about ‘Pierrot Le Fou’that makes this movie special. Maybe it’s the absence of a script combined with great casting and a free spirited lack of convention that makes me habitually revisit this film every couple of months. Jean Paul Belmondo is disillusioned with domesticity. He joins forces with Anna Karina and they set off on a romantic romp through sixties France. Oh Yeah, they murder a few people and sing a few songs while they’re at it.
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PROPA!
NEW YORK DIRECTORS EDITION
PART 2
he hasn’t made a film that i havent liked. with the exception of ‘scoop’, that other film with larry david and ‘melinda melinda‘. but for a guy with a career going on 30 plus years. that’s amazing..
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True about the Clash and I never tire of listening to them, but I think you may have over-looked the Jam as a quintessentially English (or London) band of your generation.
good point. well represented. the clash have more of an international presence but for sure the jam held it down for London even though..aahh..technically weller’s from essex, but good point and i’ll mention them next blog..
I dont know much about spike, but in reference to a few bits and bobs Spike Lee made corporate america recognise the brothers had much more to offer than just a hot verse or a dope jump shot,
You don’t do him justice with the mug shot, come on uncle the guy is a legend and you chose the one pic where he looks like he stole something.
Well i guess it was that or the Steve Urkel 80’s Cazal picture.
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i thought the photo was aiight..