1. Do the Right Thing
1. 25th Hour
3. When the Levees Broke
4.Clockers
5. Inside Man
6. Summer of Sam
7. Malcolm X (this should probably be higher)
8. She’s Gotta Have It
9. He Got Game
10. Mo Better Blues
The order’s pretty tenuous after the first few.
1. He Got Game
2. Kobe doin’ Work
3. School Daze
4. Jim Brown All American
5. Get on the Bus
6. Bamboozled
7. Mo Better Blues
8. Jungle Fever
9. Crooklyn
10. Passing Strange
I appreciate the soundtrack and the film’s incendiary nature. I can’t say I enjoyed Do the Right Thing. But Lee is a favorite particularly for his book about basketball, his outspokeness and his documentaries.
I only have three:
1) Do the Right Thing (The most important film of the 80s, imo)
2) When the Levees Broke
3) Mo Betta Blues
1. 25th Hour
2. Inside Man
3. Summer of Sam
4. Clockers
5. Do the Right Thing
1. Do The Right Thing (because it’s probably his most complete film and his most important.)
2. 25th Hour (because it has the most poetic ending of any post-9/11 American film and stands as his most restrained yet impressive and emotional exercise in style.)
3. When The Levees Broke (because it is probably the most probing and incisive documentary on how by merely allowing a disaster to happen we see all the demons come out from their hiding places: the misery that has been constantly permitted for the people of New Orleans.)
4. Jungle Fever (because there can never be another film about interracial love made with an ounce of Spike’s neurotic, colorful rage.)
5. Crooklyn (because not only is it the best autobiographical film about black youth; it’s one of the best about youth period.)
6. Malcom X (because it’s a bio-pic that comes from the heart not just ‘cause they had to.)
7. Bamboozled (because this flick took more risks than simple minded movies that try to can ever take.)
8. Inside Man (because it proved that the man can tell a great popcorn story and never give up his point of view on the world.)
9. Clockers (because he picked up where Scorsese left off and made it personal.)
10. School Daze (because it’s a doozy of a movie about college and ’cause it plays pain more than sex.)
muleyhaven
1. Do the Right Thing
2. When the Levee’s Broke
3. Malcom X
4. Bamboozled
5. Clockers
6. Summer of Sam
7.The 25th Hour
8. He Got Game
9. Inside Man
10. Jungle Fever