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Was Spike Lee’s criticism and charges of racism against Clint Eastwood legitimate?

Spike Lee Rips Eastwood for WWII Films
AP / AOL
Posted: 2008-05-21 14:37:03
Filed Under: Movie News
CANNES, France (May 21) – Spike Lee is slamming Clint Eastwood over his two recent Iwo Jima movies, saying the filmmaker overlooked the role of black soldiers during World War II.

Lee – whose next film is this fall’s “Miracle at St. Anna,” the story of an all-black U.S. division fighting in Italy during the war – said Eastwood’s 2006 movies “Flags of Our Fathers” and “Letters From Iwo Jima” were whites-only affairs.

“He did two films about Iwo Jima back to back and there was not one black soldier in both of those films,” Lee said Tuesday at the Cannes Film Festival, where he was a judge in an online short-film competition.

“Many veterans, African-Americans, who survived that war are upset at Clint Eastwood. In his vision of Iwo Jima, Negro soldiers did not exist. Simple as that. I have a different version,” Lee said.

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Small Screen | Spike Lee Goes Back to New Orleans, Two French Classics on Criterion & More

Small Screen | Spike Lee Goes Back to New Orleans, Two French Classics on Criterion & More
Four years after Spike Lee’s two-part documentary “When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts” debuted on HBO, Lee follows it up with “If God Is Willing And Da Creek Don’t Rise,” another look at the country’s gulf communities in and around New Orleans. While the focus will be on the communities’ ability to rebuild and stick together years down the line from Hurricane Katrina, Lee has implied …

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Brian Deane’s Without Words wins Spike Lee Award at Cannes

Artist, activists, Wyllie O Hagan congratulate Irish film maker Brian Deane on his winning Babelgum’s inaugural online competition, with his film “Without Words”. Spike Lee awarded Brian with the prize in Cannes during the film festival. uk.youtube.com Brian Deane’s film, “Without Words” urges us to “talk to one another – really talk to one another”. The film illustrates the consequence of two young male friends failing to connect with one another. One of the lads dies by his own hand, the other is left to receive news of it. Brian Deane, a young film-maker, has made a powerful film about suicide within his peer group. The film is made without hysteria, and without judgement. We learn from his example. In addition to congratulating Brian, Wyllie O Hagan would like to thank Babelgum for their generous hospitality at the Cannes Film Festival. Thanks also to the youtube Community for supporting our work on the St Patricks Day Film Festival. Looking forward to the 3rd Annual Wyllie O Hagan St Patricks Day Digital Film Festival in March 2009. It will be online here on youtube. Subscribe to this channel to keep updated. Wishing you all the best. Wyllie O Hagan www.wyllieohagan.com

A New Generation of Spike and Mike

A New Generation of Spike and Mike
It’s time for another Spike and Mike animated festival. This time it’s ” A New Generation of Spike and Mike ” playing select weekend days at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego in La Jolla.

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