Spike Lee did not mince his words at the Cannes Film Festival jury press conference this afternoon, which raised the curtain on his history-making tenure as the event’s first black Competition jury president in its 74-year history.Lee is returning to the festival that helped launch his career when She’s Gotta Have It screened here in 1986.
Three years later he returned to Cannes with his seminal movie Do The Right Thing, which played in Competition in 1989. The film’s story, which sees the death of a Black character at the hands of police officers, continues to have strong relevance in 2021.Responding to a question from Chaz Ebert, the wife of the late famed film critic Roger Ebert, Lee noted that U.S.
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