Tag: BlacKkKlansman
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Streaming: curate your own Spike Lee season
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…
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Now Stream This: ‘BlacKkKlansman’, ‘The Sisters Brothers’, ‘The Hateful Eight: Extended Version’, ‘Detour’ and More
(Welcome to Now Stream This, a column dedicated to the best movies streaming on Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, and every other streaming service out there.) The time has come again to round up the bet movies streaming right now. We have a new platform in our midst, too! The Criterion Channel recently launched, and it does…
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President Trump Takes Aim at Spike Lee Over Oscars Speech
President Donald Trump has slammed Spike Lee hours after the director won the Oscar for best adapted screenplay for “BlacKkKlansman.”President Trump tweeted that it would be “nice if Spike Lee could read his notes, or better yet not have to use notes at all, when doing his racist hit on your president…” He went on…
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Donald Trump Slams Spike Lee for Making ‘Racist Hit’ on the President During Oscar Speech
Donald Trump took to social media the morning after the Oscars to call out Spike Lee for putting a “racist hit” on him at the Academy Awards. Lee used his time on stage while accepting the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay to urge Americans to vote wisely in the upcoming 2020 presidential election. The director…
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Spike Lee on Green Book’s Oscar win: ‘The ref made a bad call’
Director leaves seat when race relations drama named best picture at Academy AwardsSpike Lee, whose film BlacKkKlansman was Oscar-nominated for best picture, said “the ref made a bad call” when Green Book won the top prize at Sunday’s Academy Awards.The director tried to storm out of the Dolby Theatre after the race relations drama was…
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‘Green Book’ Win Gives Spike Lee ‘Driving Miss Daisy’ Deja Vu: ‘Ref Made a Bad Call’
Spike Lee’s beloved New York Knicks won Sunday night, but his “BlackKklansman” was among the films that lost Best Picture to “Green Book” at the Oscars. And after the show ended, the director likened the decision to a referee making a bad call.Asked about his reaction to the “Green Book” win, Lee, holding champagne, declared,…
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Alfonso Cuarón wins Oscar for best director for Roma
Cuarón becomes fifth Mexican best director winner in six years, as he takes the Academy Award for his 70s-set drama RomaAlfonso Cuarón has won the Oscar for best director at the 91st Academy Awards for Roma.This is the second time Cuarón has taken the award, after winning in 2014 for his space drama Gravity. This…
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Alfonso Cuaron Wins Best Director Oscar for ‘Roma’
Alfonso Cuarón has won the Oscar for Best Director thanks to his acclaimed work on his Netflix-backed Spanish-language drama “Roma.” Cuarón was considered the frontrunner for the Oscar after winning Best Director prizes at the Golden Globes, Critics’ Choice Awards, and BAFTAs. The Mexican filmmaker won the Oscar over Yorgos Lanthimos (“The Favourite”), Adam McKay…
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Spike Lee Wins His First Competitive Oscar
“BlackKklansman” director Spike Lee took home his first Oscar at Sunday’s Academy Awards, following five nominations over nearly 30 years.“Do not turn that motherf—ing clock on!” he shouted as he took to stage, relishing in a moment years in the making. However, Academy producers were less enthused, bleeping out the sentence and leaving many viewers…
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Oscars: Women, People of Color Triumph on Night of Firsts (and Seconds)
Oscar Sunday marked a night of important firsts — and seconds — for diverse artists and filmmakers and their Hollywood contributions.The 2019 telecast started making history almost immediately. After Regina King accepted best supporting actress for “If Beale Street Could Talk,” Ruth E. Carter became the first African American woman to ever win best costume…