Do the Right Thing Is About More Than Just Race

by Matt Zoller Seitz

In this video essay, Matt Zoller Seitz looks at the conflicts (personal and social, verbal and physical) driving Spike Lee's film-of-ideas, released twenty years ago this week. (Read the transcript here.)

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The Evolution of the Modern Blockbuster: Part 3

In part three of our five-part series on the summer movies of 1984 and 1989, we begin with a lickety-split recap of the second Reagan term, and begin the Bush years with the rise of hip-hop, Field of Dreams, Do the Right Thing, and the American indie film opting out and breaking out with sex, lies and videotape.

By Matt Zoller Seitz and Aaron Aradillas

Aug 26, 2009

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Awesome. Thank you Matt.

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In the first half of a two-part video essay on the decade at the movies, we return to the not-so-halcyon years 2000-2004. Plus, year-in-review snapshots from our senior film writers.