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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. 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 ...

  3. Nov 21, 2017 · Thirty-one years ago, an ambitious New York University film student named Spike Lee became an instant cinema force with his debut feature She’s Gotta Have It, about a sexually independent...

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  4. Dec 7, 2017 · The original “She’s Gotta Have It,” starring Tracy Camilla Johns, begins, in the stark calm of Ernest Dickerson’s silver cinematography, with Nola sitting up in bed in her Fort Greene...

  5. 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...

  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. Nov 22, 2017 · Uproxx TV critic Alan Sepinwall reviews 'She's Gotta Have It,' which finds Spike Lee reinventing his first feature as a Netflix series.