SESSION: Thursday 19th December at 7pm



Do the Right Thing

(1989, dir. Spike Lee, w/ Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Richard Edson)

This film looks at life in the Bedford-Stuyvesant district of Brooklyn on a hot summer Sunday. As he does everyday, Sal Fragione opens the pizza parlor he's owned for 25 years. The neighborhood has changed considerably in the time he's been there and is now composed primarily of African-Americans and Hispanics. His son Pino hates it there and would like nothing better than to relocate the eatery to their own neighborhood. For Sal however, the restaurant represents something that is part of his life and sees it as a part of the community. What begins as a simple complaint by one of his customers, Buggin Out - who wonders why he has only pictures of famous Italian-Americans on the wall when most of his customers are black - eventually disintegrates into violence as frustration seemingly brings out the worst in everyone. (IMDB)

FILM INFO 3.953.953.953.95(IMDB rating)

David Byrne’s American Utopia

(2020, dir. Spike Lee, w/ David Byrne, Jacqueline Acevedo, Gustavo Di Dalva, Daniel Freedman)

David Byrne’s American Utopia will start at approximately 9:26pm, and finish at approximately 11:17pm.

Spike Lee documents the former Talking Heads frontman's brilliant, timely 2019 Broadway show, based on his recent album and tour of the same name. (IMDB)

FILM INFO 4.24.24.24.2(IMDB rating)