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She's Gotta Have It was Lee's first feature-length motion picture as a writer/director and is a landmark independent film of American cinema. He was initially inspired by viewing Akira Kurosawa 's Rashomon in film school.
May 20, 2019 · When She’s Gotta Have It, the film written and directed by Spike Lee, was released in 1986, it was not only a breakthrough for Black culture, but was also a new way of creating and producing movies. It was the mid-1980s, and, much like today, a time of social, political and economic shifts in world. The ‘80s were about Wall Street, when ...
Nov 17, 2017 · She originally appeared in Mr. Lee’s feature film debut of the same name over 30 years ago and now updated as a Netflix dramedy, whose 10-episode first season arrives on Thanksgiving Day.
Dec 7, 2017 · The critic Greg Tate wrote about this scene as Lee’s “umpteenth revision of Irene Cara’s fall from grace in ‘Fame’—for Spike, female sexuality is just a step away from original sin.”
Nov 22, 2017 · The plot was a simple but fresh one in that decade: Lee’s leading lady flipped the script on expected gender norms by playing a character with no shame about her sexual ambition, or her focus...
Oct 18, 2019 · Cast: Tracy Camilla Johns, Spike Lee, Tommy Redmond Hicks. Year: 1986. Source Credits: Directory of World Cinema: American Independent, Edited by John Berra, published by Intellect Books, Bristol, UK / Chicago, USA. Summary: Nola Darling is a young black woman living in Brooklyn.
Nov 22, 2017 · But Lee (who directed every episode and wrote the first and last) and his collaborators (including, among others, Pulitzer-winning playwright Lynn Notage and Lee’s siblings Joie and Cinque) have...
