As Do the Right Thing hits 30 and temperatures soar, what better time to seek out the best of the director onlineAs cinema rereleases go, next week’s 30th-anniversary revival of Do the Right Thing is a well-timed one.
The tangible, asphalt-melting heat of Spike Lee’s high summer race-war eruption plays all the more vividly as we head stickily into August.
The film is viewable online, though the chance to see just how fiercely it still plays in a cinema shouldn’t be passed up.Still, in what has been a good year for Spike Lee – who finally won his long-awaited competitive Oscar for BlacKkKlansman in February – this anniversary should prompt your own streaming retrospective of the 62-year-old film-maker’s varied, restless career, which jaggedly runs the gamut from sleek studio entertainments to shot-on-a-shoestring curios to hefty, authoritative documentaries.
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