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.)
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.)
Awesome. Thank you Matt.
Really marvelous work —thanks for pointing the way to the Rosenbaum review, which I hadn’t read. I think Sal’s complexity has as much to do with Danny Aiello as Spike Lee; from the DVD commentary it sounds like Lee was fighting Aiello to make Sal less sympathetic. I guess Aiello likes playing basically nice guys. (Turturro, on the other hand…)