Do the Right Thing (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray) R
It's the hottest day of the summer. You can do nothing, you can do something, or you can …
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- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: July 23, 2019
- Originally Released: 1989
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Spike Lee, Danny Aiello & John Turturro | |
Performer: | Rosie Perez, Richard Edson, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Bill Nunn, Giancarlo Esposito, Frankie Faison, Robin Harris, Paul Benjamin, Joie Lee, Miguel Sandoval, Rick Aiello, John Savage, Martin Lawrence, Roger Guenveur Smith, Frank Vincent & Samuel L. Jackson | |
Directed by | Spike Lee | |
Edited by | Barry Alexander Brown | |
Screenwriting by | Spike Lee | |
Composition by | Bill Lee | |
Produced by | Spike Lee | |
Director of Photography: | Ernest Dickerson |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 4/4 --
Lee is using violence to provoke discussion in his viewers, to drive at controversial issues that don't have simple, neat, or clean answers
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Q Network Film Desk
...Lee's film is stirring....It is floridly cinematic....This is a fascinating movie experience, confident in style...
USA Today
Rating: 4/5 --
This fierce racial drama remains Spike Lee's most assured and controversial film to date, and time hasn't diminished any of its power.
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Radio Times
Rating: 3.5/4 --
In the final analysis, the best thing one can say for Lee is that he takes risks, like all true artists. For unlike most of today's film makers, he's not afraid to really challenge a movie audience to do some serious thinking.
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New York Daily News
...Lee's best and boldest film....[He] gives the audiences the most vigorous shake-up they've had in years...
Rolling Stone
[You] need to see it for yourself. It's a very unusual movie experience -- two hours of bombardment with New York-style stimuli.
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New Yorker
4 stars out of 4 -- Spike Lee's best film....It remains a beautifully shot, funny, smart, and thought-provoking masterpiece.
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Product Description:
Spike Lee's racial and political filmmaking bent is given the full treatment with this simmering exposé of racial tensions in a New York City neighborhood one scorching summer day. The film, written by Lee (and nominated for an Oscar), follows a group of racially diverse inhabitants from Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood as they spend their day trying to avoid the oppressive heat. These include African American pizza deliveryman Mookie (Lee), the racially sensitive Buggin' Out (Giancarlo Esposito), and the silent, boom-box-blasting Radio Raheem (Bill Nunn). Also thrown into the mix are Sal (an Oscar-nominated Danny Aiello), the Italian-American proprietor of Sal's Pizzeria, as well as his two sons, Pino (John Turturro) and Vito (Richard Edson), who hold completely opposing attitudes when it comes to race. After Buggin' Out tries to organize a boycott of Sal's because of the lack of racial diversity on his shop's Wall of Fame, the tensions explode in an act of senseless violence. Lee's film is an electric work of political entertainment that confronts sensitive racial issues head-on. He deftly blends humor and drama as well as using specific music to further amplify his theme (Public Enemy's song "Fight the Power" actually becomes the film's main catalyst for action). Boldly closing the film with opposing quotes from Malcolm X and Martin Luther King on the nature of race relations, Lee leaves it up to the viewer to decide if Mookie's actions were the correct ones. Aiello and Esposito are standouts in an all-star cast that includes Lee himself, his sister Joie, "discovery" Rosie Perez, and the married team of Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee. Always one to spark controversy, Lee's summer drama finds the filmmaker at the peak of his craft.
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