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23 July 2008 9:02 PM, PDT | From avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news

"Diaboli virtus in lumbis est. Diaboli virtus in lumbis est. The virtue of the devil is in his loins." And now Camp Month brings us to The Devil's Advocate—or, as I'd like to call it, How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The "Hoo-ah" Al Pacino. When Pacino took the Best Actor Oscar for Scent Of A Woman, besting the likes of Denzel Washington in Malcolm X and Stephen Rea in The Crying Game, it felt ironically like one of the great actors of his generation had been lost to us. Gone was the quiet, tortured, soulful introspection of Pacino's work in classics like The Godfather Part II and Serpico. Instead, we received a preening scenery-chewer whose performances were all surface theatricality, with little character underneath. At the time, he seemed to me a husk of his former self, lazily coasting on the authority of...

Scott Tobias

11 July 2008 12:53 AM, PDT | From GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news

Spike Lee has been in the spotlight a lot more since Inside Man was released in early 2007. It's a well-made thriller, and it confirmed what Lee is able to do when he's given resources, a good script, and studio support. But really, even when his profile wasn't as high, Lee had been putting out good for a number of years, in the form of documentaries.

Armed with perhaps more clout than he's had since Malcolm X, Lee is taking a big step forward in his commercial filmmaking with Miracle at St. Anna, his World War II movie about four African-American soldiers who get trapped in an Italian village. We've talked about the dust-up between Lee and Clint Eastwood stemming from Spike's critical assessment of the portrayal of blacks in Clint's Flags of Our Fathers. And now it's time to let the work speak for itself.

Here's the second trailer in

Colin Boyd

4 July 2008 10:27 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Don Cheadle, Sidney Poitier, Lenny Kravitz and Denzel Washington have joined U.S. presidential hopeful Barack Obama on a new list of the coolest African-Americans.

Music producer Quincy Jones, Richard Roundtree, Sammy Davis Jr., Jay-z, Prince, Snoop Dogg and Samuel L. Jackson also make Ebony magazine's new 25 Coolest Brothers of All Time list.

Late icons Marvin Gaye, Bob Marley, Jimi Hendrix, Tupac Shakur and Malcolm X are also included.

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18 June 2008 3:52 PM, PDT | From screeninglog.com | See recent screeninglog news

Variety today reported that director Spike Lee will co-write and helm “Time Traveler,” a drama based on the memoir by Ronald Mallett, one of the first African-Americans to receive a doctorate in theoretical physics.

In the book, Mallett describes how he escaped poverty and built himself a remarkable academic career as a scientist. He also presents his plans to build a realistic time machine, which he started developing at the age of 10, shortly after the death of his father.

Lee acquired the rights to “Time Traveler: A Scientist's Personal Mission to Make Time Travel a Reality" with his own finances. The “Malcolm X” director is currently wrapping up post-production for his upcoming drama “Miracle at St. Anna,” which opens Sept. 26, 2008.

Lee’s credits also include “25th Hour,” “Do the Right Thing” and “Summer of Sam.”

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6 June 2008 10:24 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Latest: Outspoken moviemaker Spike Lee has fuelled the war of words between himself Clint Eastwood by calling the Hollywood icon "an angry old man."

Lee was upset when the Dirty Harry star used an interview in a British newspaper to attack the Malcolm X director over remarks he made about the lack of black actors in Eastwood's 2006 war films Flags of Our Fathers and Letters From Iwo Jima.

The veteran suggested Lee should "shut his face," adding the younger director should get his facts right before lecturing him about African-American soldiers.

Eastwood told Britain's The Guardian newspaper, "The story is Flags of our Fathers, the famous flag-raising picture, and they (black soldiers) didn't do that. If I go ahead and put an African-American actor in there, people go: `This guy's lost

his mind'. I mean, it's not accurate." But Lee isn't happy with Eastwood's comeback to comments he made at the Cannes Film Festival last month.

The director says, "First of all, the man is not my father and we're not on a plantation either... I didn't personally attack him, and a comment like `a guy like that should shut his face...' come on Clint, come on. He sounds like an angry old man.

"If he wishes, I could assemble African-American men who fought at Iwo Jima and I'd like him to tell these guys that what they did was insignificant and they did not exist.

"I'm not making this up. I know history. I'm a student of history. And I know the history of Hollywood and its omission of the one million African-American men and women who contributed to World War II."

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6 June 2008 5:09 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Latest: Clint Eastwood has told Spike Lee to "shut his face" after the African-American filmmaker complained about the lack of black actors in Eastwood's films.

Eastwood has rejected the Malcolm X director's complaint that he had failed to include a single black soldier in his 2006 films Flags Of Our Fathers and Letters From Iwo Jima, about the 1945 battle for the Japanese island.

Rationalising his choice, the actor-turned-director explains the African-American troops who were at battle didn't take part in raising the flag.

He tells Britain's The Guardian newspaper, "The story is Flags of our Fathers, the famous flag-raising picture, and they didn't do that. If I go ahead and put an African-American actor in there, people go: 'This guy's lost his mind'. I mean, it's not accurate."

Referring to Lee, Eastwood adds: "A guy like him should shut his face."

Lee's comments came during a press conference at the Cannes International Film Festival last month, where he was promoting his own war film, Miracle at St Anna, a war drama about the all-black 92nd Buffalo Division, which fought against the Germans in World War II.

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21 May 2008 5:05 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Spike Lee has launched a bitter attack on fellow filmmaker Clint Eastwood for failing to include black soldiers in his films about the Battle of Iwo Jima.

The Malcolm X director insists African-American soldiers should have been included in Eastwood's Flags Of Our Fathers and Letters From Iwo Jima since hundreds took part in the 1945 battle for the Japanese island.

Speaking at a press conference on Tuesday at the Cannes Film Festival in France, Lee said, "There were many African-Americans who survived that war and who were upset at Clint for not having one (in the films). That was his version: the negro soldier did not exist. I have a different version."

Lee screened the world premiere of an eight-minute trailer for his forthcoming feature film Miracle At St Anna, a war drama about the all-black 92nd Buffalo Division, which fought against the Germans in World War II.

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