by Joe Van Ryn | May 14, 2019 | Issues, Left
In a career that has spanned well over thirty years from his debut 1986 feature She’s Gotta Have It to the recent BlacKkKlansman, Spike Lee has forged his own path as an African American auteur and provocateur, playing by his own rules to tell his own stories in...
by Joe Van Ryn | May 14, 2019 | Criticism, Left
Over the course of over 30 years, Spike Lee has established himself as an outspoken auteur with a distinct style and a voice for Black America. Perhaps one of cinema’s most controversial figures, Lee has consistently addressed the issue of the African American...
by Joe Van Ryn | Feb 21, 2019 | Right, Updates
For the penultimate screening of our Black History Month Film Series we will be showing one of Spike Lee’s earlier films, a Brooklyn masterpiece that catapulted its director into the spotlight. Lee’s 1989 comedy-drama classic Do The Right Thing will be...
by Joe Van Ryn | Nov 15, 2018 | Criticism, Left
All Quiet on the Western Front is a pre-code, black and white, American epic anti-war film released in 1930. Directed by Lewis Milestone, the film revolves around a group of young German schoolboys who are talked into enlisting during the onset of World War I by their...
by Joe Van Ryn | Nov 9, 2018 | Criticism, Reviews, Right
Co-authored by: Morghan Lemmenes and Joe Van Ryn Over the course of October we were delighted to curate a film series revolving around our university theme of Resilience. Each film that we showed truly highlighted different aspects of Resilience. Whether it be a...
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