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July 04, 2009 Film » Video Essays

Do the Right Thing Is About More Than Just Race 

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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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