Spike Is 60 is a series of screenings and events running from April to November in Manchester and London which aims to be the most comprehensive UK retrospective of Spike Lee work to date.
Jungle Fever (1991), explores the complications of an interracial relationship between co-workers Flipper (Wesley Snipes) and Angie (Annabella Sciorra). A typically interesting mix of romcom and social statement, the film has cracking supporting performancess from John Turturro as Paulie, Angie’s spurned and embattled fiancee, and Samuel L Jackson as Gator, Flipper’s crack addicted brother.
Mon 20 Nov, time and tickets to be announced.
Red Hook (2012) follows Flick (Jules Brown), unceremoniously dumped in Brooklyn for the summer with a grandfather he has never met: Bishop Enoch Rouse (Clarke Peters), whose sparsely attended church is in financial difficulty. What starts as a fairly loose What-I-Did-On-My-Holidays teen film changes radically with a revelation in the second act that , like all the best Spike Lee joints, will have you talking long after the film has ended.
Mon 27 Nov, time and tickets to be announced.
Home, 2 Tony Wilson Place, First St, Manchester M15 4FN. Tel: 0161 200 1500 homemcr.org
- Words:
- Ruth Allan
- Published on:
- Mon 20 Nov 2017
