1. Spike Lee Joint Collection (Clockers/
Jungle Fever/ Do the Right Thing/ Mo`
Better Blues/ Crooklyn) starring
Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee,
Harvey Keitel, John Turturro
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Clockers
Based on the riveting bestseller by Richard Price, this 1995 crime drama
was directed by Spike Lee with such authority and authenticity that it has
the hyper-real quality of a stylized documentary. Fully capturing the
thoroughly researched detail of Prices novel, the film focuses on Strike
(newcomer Mekhi Phifer), a young, ambitious clocker--or drug dealer--who
works the streets of his New York housing project, selling drugs for a local
supplier named Rodney (played with ferocious charisma by Delroy Lindo) .

2. Just as Strike is struggling to get away from his dead-end life of crime,
another dealer is murdered in a fast-food restaurant and local detectives
(Harvey Keitel, John Turturro) consider Strike the primary suspect. In
cowriting the script with novelist Price, Lee uses this murder mystery to
explore the plague of guns and black-on-black crime in Americas inner
cities, in which drugs and death are familiar routines of daily life. The film
doesnt pretend to offer solutions, nor does it dwell on the problem with
numbing insistence. Rather, this taut, well-acted film takes the viewer into
a world often hidden in plain sight--a world where options seem
nonexistent for youth conditioned to have little or no expectation beyond a
probable early death. Lee and Price are deadly serious in handling this
volatile subject (which incorporates racism, powerless law enforcement,
and political indifference), but Clockers is also blessed with humor, insight,
and humanity. Its one of Lees most confidently directed films, sign aling a
creative maturity that Lee continued to develop throughout the 1990s. --
Jeff Shannon Jungle Fever
Spike Lees 1991 story about an interracial relationship and its
consequences on the lives and communities of the lovers (Wesley Snipes,
Annabella Sciorra) is one of his most captivating and focused films. Snipes
and Sciorra are very good as individuals trying to reach beyond the limits
imposed upon them for reasons of race, tradition, sexism, and such. Lee
makes an interesting and subtle case that they are driven to one another
out of frustration with social obstacles as well as pure attraction--but is that
enough for love to survive? John Turturro is featured in a subplot as an
Italian American who grows attracted to a black woman and takes heat
from his numbskull buddies. --Tom Keogh Do the Right Thing
Spike Lees incendiary look at race relations in America, circa 1989, is so
colorful and exuberant for its first three-quarters that you can almost forget
the terrible confrontation that the movie inexorably builds toward. Do the
Right Thing is a joyful, tumultuous masterpiece--maybe the best film ever
made about race in America, revealing racial prejudices and stereotypes in
all their guises and demonstrating how a deadly riot can erupt out of a
series of small misunderstandings. Set on one block in Bedford-Stuyvesant
on the hottest day of the summer, the movie shows the whole spectrum of
life in this neighborhood and then leaves it up to us to decide if, in the end,
anybody actually does the right thing. Featuring Danny Aiello as Sal, the
pizza parlor owner; Lee himself as Mookie, the lazy pizza-delivery guy;
John Turturro and Richard Edson as Sals sons; Lees sister Joie as
Mookies sister Jade; Rosie Perez as Mookies girlfriend Tina; Ossie Davis
and Ruby Dee as the block elders, Da Mayor and Mother Sister; Giancarlo
Esposito as Mookies hot-headed friend Buggin Out; Bill Nunn as the
boom-box toting Radio Raheem; and Samuel L. Jackson as deejay Mister
Señor Love Daddy. A rich and nuanced film to watch, treasure, and learn
from--over and over again. --Jim Emerson Mo Better Blues
With Mo Better Blues, the story of a young trumpeters rise to jazz-world
stardom, Spike Lee set out to counter Clint Eastwoods cliché-ridden biopic

3. of Charlie Parker in Bird. But the final product, a slick, glossy drama (with
hip-hop jazz provided by Gangstarr no less), is just as superficial as the
numerous Alger-esque stories of music stardom to which movie audiences
are accustomed. Denzel Washington gives a typically charis matic
performance as the trumpeter in question, as does Wesley Snipes as his
sax-playing rival. And as with most Spike Lee films, there are numerous
solid performers in small roles such as Bill Nunn, Latin-music star Rubén
Blades, and comedian Robin Harris. One character, however, attracted
unwanted attention: John Turturros role as an unscrupulous music -industry
exec. Critics called the Turturro character, who is at once money hungry,
swarthy, and perpetually shrouded in darkness, a classic anti-Semitic
caricature. But the charge seems almost irrelevant in Spike Lees
cartoonish, overstylized world of impossibly hunky jazzmen, curvaceous
hangers-on, and incessant bebop. --Ethan Brown Crooklyn
Spike Lees semiautobiographical, 1994 film about the good and bad times
for a Brooklyn family in the 70s has passion and nostalgic good feeling, but
it is also a mess of random reflections and arbitrary storytelling. The
centerpiece of the movie is a little girl (Zelda Harris) who views the ups and
downs of her parents experiences (mom and dad are played by Delroy
Lindo and Alfre Woodard), and who navigates the life of her neighborhood.
Lee tosses in a lot of 70s detail (watching The Partridge Family) and other
diversions (Harriss journey through suburbia), but he ha s no master
sensibility controlling the flow of it all. The film is more wearying than
anything, although bright spots include Lindos fine performance as a
talented man suffering from irrelevance. --Tom Keogh
One of the best purchases Ive made on Amazon! I was shocked to see this
on sale, and immediately ordered. Just an FYI, there are 3 DVDs, and 5
movies. So you have to flip the DVD over, and slip it into your player
depending on which movie you want to watch. Thats just a small
inconvenience though. I am a huge Spike Lee fan, so it makes me so
happy that I have such a cool collection, and I only paid $22.
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