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  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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 ...

  4. Nov 22, 2017 · Lee wrote, edited, and directed the film on his own, but the series owes a lot to its screenwriters, including Brooklyn writer-performer Radha Blank (who scripted two episodes); actress Eisa...

  5. 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.”

  6. Jan 4, 2018 · Back in 1986, the indie film world was atwitter over She’s Gotta’ Have It, a sparkling, low-budget but high-style debut by Spike Lee, who went on to become an outspoken leader among African-American directors.

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  8. Lee’s feature film debut was Shes Gotta Have It (1986), a prismatic character study about the love life of a contemporary Black woman. Establishing a career-long pattern, Lee not only wrote, produced, directed, and edited the film but also played a key supporting role.

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