Ahead of a new Brooklyn Museum exhibit, Spike Lee discusses his Colin Kaepernick project and the heroics of the Montgomery Riverfront brawl’s “Black Aquaman.”
Ahead of a new Brooklyn Museum exhibit of his personal memorabilia, the director talks his Oscars favorites, his forthcoming Colin Kaepernick series and the heroics of ‘Black Aquaman.’
Lee’s mother, Jacqueline Carroll Shelton Lee, a teacher of Black literature, used to take him and his siblings to that museum as a kid, during a homegrown arts education that introduced him to cinema. She died when he was a sophomore at Morehouse College, located in her hometown of Atlanta, and there’s a whole section in the exhibit dedicated to family, featuring his mother, grandparents and father, the jazz musician Bill Lee, who composed scores for Spike’s earlier films and.
I’m not doing the students good if they’ve seen a film 10 million times already. I’m trying to introduce them to things. I’ll say, “You know there was some good s--- made before you were born. And it might be black-and-white.” And “On the Waterfront” is one of my all-time great films. I got to be good friends with Budd Schulberg, who wrote the screenplay.Never met him. Would have loved to. But right after “Do the Right Thing” came out [in 1989], he called me. I don’t know how he got my number.
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