Please join METROGRAPH for a retrospective honoring

SPIKE LEE

with a special screening of



Series Includes 4 Little Girls, Bamboozled, Inside Man, Mo' Better Blues, 
and Summer of Sam

For tickets please visit metrograph.com
 

"THE MOVIE OF THE YEAR. THE SINGLE MOST EFFECTIVE
PIECE OF ART ABOUT OUR CURRENT POLITICAL MOMENT." 
Zach Baron / GQ  

Screening and Showtimes

BlacKkKlansman (2018/135 mins/DCP)  Ron Stallworth (John David Washington), the first African-American detective on the Colorado Springs Police Department, has taken on a dangerous, far-out assignment—infiltrating the local chapter of the Ku Klux Klan through a cold call, with partner Adam Driver providing the white face for further undercover infiltration. A stirring study in the pathology of race hate, with Harry Belafonte stopping by to offer a heartbreaking history lesson. 

Sunday, December 2 - 7:00pm  | Extended Introduction by Spike Lee 

Mo' Better Blues (1990/129 mins/35mm) Denzel Washington is at his most volcanic and charismatic as Bleek Gilliam, a New York jazz trumpeter and bandleader balancing a turbulent love life and a professional life marred by his deteriorating relationship with his gambling-addict manager, Giant (Lee), and his emerging rivalry with saxophonist Shadow Henderson (Wesley Snipes). Energetically shot and riotously colorful, though with a somber, blue note undertone running throughout, it’s a scintillating, unsentimental study in the monomania of the artistic temperament. 

Friday, November 30 - 10:45pm

Bamboozled (2000/135 mins/35mm) One of the most audacious movies that Lee ever made, and certainly the most audience-indicting, Bamboozled is a willfully grating media satire, casting an eye toward the digital future of entertainment with its Mini-DV cinematography, while simultaneously looking towards the history of Black entertainers and entertainment in America, imagining a 21st century reboot of the minstrel show. With Savion Glover and Tommy Davidson donning the burned cork to dance for network masters Damon Wayans and Michael Rapaport, both gamely grotesque. 

Sunday, December 2 - 4:15pm 

Summer of Sam (1999/142 mins) It’s another summer and another wave of urban hysteria in Spike Lee’s lookback- in-delirium at the summer of ’77 in the neurotic, hot-pants Italian-American Bronx, where Vinny (John Leguizamo) hits Plato’s Retreat, his old buddy Ritchie (Adrien Brody) imports the new punker style from downtown, a psycho calling himself "Son of Sam" is corresponding with Jimmy Breslin and unloading a .44 (World Series hero Reggie Jackson’s uniform number) on unsuspecting couples caught necking, and then the lights go out city-wide. 

Monday, December 3 - 4:15pm / Wednesday, December 5 - 8:30pm | Intro and Q&A with actors Michael Imperioli and Victor Colicchio  

4 Little Girls (1997/102 mins) Long before BlacKkKlansman, Lee was on the case of hate groups in America, here sifting through the wreckage of one of the most heinous Klan-affiliated crimes in history, the September 15, 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, which resulted in the deaths of four Sunday school students aged 11 to 14. Reviewing the facts of the crime, as well as the biographies of the victims, Lee creates a profound and poignant picture, one that drives home the unbearable human cost of political violence. 

Monday, December 3 - 7:00pm 

Inside Man (2006/129 mins/35mm) Lee proved himself a superb genre director with this stylish, twist-laden hit thriller, starring his repeat collaborator Denzel Washington as a New York City hostage negotiator who has to match his wits against those of an arch-criminal (Clive Owen) who has, with his team, taken over a Manhattan bank and made hostages of everyone inside. While seemingly a departure for Lee, Inside Man, like so many of his films, poses an insoluble moral dilemma to protagonist and viewer both. 

Monday, December 3 - 9:15pm 

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