is the main thing but really it is about the visuals of spike lee.k at as well, it evokes — and i watched it recently because we had our own heatwave here — and you can feel the heat of brooklyn almost coming off off the screen and the fabulous bright colours. it is terrific. the dialogue and the soundtrack is amazing. fight the power by public enemy, an all—time hip—hop track which is a powerful start, and rosie perez dancing to it. one of my favourite films of all time and one of the best films ever made, and spike lee is still doing this, if you watch netflix, he has two seasons of she's gotta have it on there which is his original film and that is brilliant as well. still looking at brooklyn that has very changed in those 30 years, and the gentrification that is going on, but still talking about black issues and black history, i think it is a brilliant film and it's out and the sentiments, 4k restorations of those colours you talked about, they are even brighter and more ferocious and hot. fantastic, 30 year rerelease of do the right thing. quick

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is the main thing but really it is about the visuals of spike lee. had our own heatwave here — and you can feel the heat of brooklyn almost coming off off the screen and the fabulous bright colours. it is terrific. the dialogue and the soundtrack is amazing. fight the power by public enemy, an all—time hip—hop track which is a powerful start, and rosie perez dancing to it. one of my favourite films of all time and one of the best films ever made, and spike lee is still doing this, if you watch netflix, he has two seasons of she's gotta have it on there which is his original film and that is brilliant as well. still looking at brooklyn that has very changed in those 30 years, and the gentrification that is going on, but still talking about black issues and black history, i think it is a brilliant film and it's out and the sentiments, 4k restorations of those colours you talked about, they are even brighter and more ferocious and hot. fantastic, 30 year rerelease of do the right thing. quick thought about dvd, streaming? there is a film called the cham

executive will be responsible to rebuild hong kong's economy to engage as spike lee as possible to listen as attentively as possible so my people scream and says and try to help hong kong to move on lagos. i the words have done little to ease jitters around asia asian stocks have tumbled amid darr warnings from china about terrorism and threats of intervention fears of a drawn out sino us trade war and worries of capital flight from hong kong have added to woes investors believe hong kong's future will be decided by beijing and those worries have been taking a toll on singapore's economy as well the city state has cut its annual growth forecast as their trade spat hammers exports singapore is an export up and highly sensitive to external shocks it's expected to grow between 0 and one percent this year that's a sharp decline from the previous estimate of between one and a half and 2 and a half percent many asian countries have slashed their growth forecasts. argentina's financial markets are known to be volatile but if by these standards it was a brutal meltdown investors panicked after th

joining me now to discuss all this is film maker spike lee.nks for having me again. >> this is important to you. >> very i'm to r tablp importan. we're not taught this in school. we're dealing with christopher columbus and all that other stuff but 40 years ago today, 1619, august 20th the first 20 slaves stolen from mother africa were brought here and 400 years later. >> it's interesting you see it's not taught, it's also not i think fully understood as how krush it was to the history. this is not just something on the side. this is one of the things that enabled the colonies and -- >> i think that most woke historians would say that this country, the united states of america was built upon the genocide of people and slavery. i mean, that's a fact. and i think that if we americans came to study how this country started, we wouldn't be talking about kick immigrants out, you know, because if it wasn't -- i mean, native americans, people brought here as slaves, everyone was immigrants. i woke up this morning and went on instagram and felt my ance

i don't know if i thought that people were going to be like, "i'm sorry, are you spike lee?"e never-- i've never met the man, but i'll carry that around just in case. ( laughter ) >> stephen: wow. now, are your kids impressed with your success? how old are they? >> they're 10 and 12. >> stephen: 10 and 12. that's nice. >> it is. >> stephen: they take care of themselves and they probably care a little bit about you, right? >> well... >> stephen: they haven't hit the teen years where they keep going into the tunnel and you shout, "i love you." >> they haven't disconnected completely, but it is coming fast, i can tell. as far as my career goes, it's not that they hate my work, but... ( laughter ) >> stephen: they must-- they had to have watched "parks and rec." >> no, they love everything around it. they love "the office," "good place," and "brooklyn 99" and everything surrounding it, but they won't do "parks and rec" just because i'm on it. >> stephen: it's no fun. >> no, they spend enough time with me already, i guess. i mean, their ambivalence is really aggressive. >> stephen

and also it was a great time for black film—making, we had spike lee, john singleton.gy and now we have barryjenkins, people influenced by the early 1990s waiver film—making. can we people influenced by the early 1990s waiverfilm—making. can we keep it going and keep these young film—makers in business? we have these periods of boom and bust so hopefully what is going on now is not cresting and will continue to rise. very good to talk to you, thank you so much. the headlines on bbc news. opposition parties say they have agreed to try to block a no—deal brexit by passing legislation in parliament. the meeting was called by labour leaderjeremy corbyn. the deadline to save both bolton wanderers and bury football clubs has closed — with the firm aiming to buy bury pulling out of the deal. a police investigation is under way after cctv footage reveals 1500 crimes on one ward of a northern ireland hospital over the last two years. the pharmaceutical companyjohnson and johnson has been fined nearly half a billion pounds in the us — for its part in encouraging opioid use which

segregated south jim crowd may be a thing of the past but for instance film director spike lee believes racism is ingrained in the day of the united states days think it will ever be overcome completely. well it's going to take a long time because you know with the development of the i guess the you know the country with the native americans and with the you know the the many many years of.

discrimination and segregated south jame crowd may be a saying of the past but for instance film director spike lee believes racism is ingrained in the day in day of the united states days think it will ever be overcome completely. well it's going to take a long time because you know with the development of the i guess the you know the country with the native americans and with the you know the the many many years of bondage by africans who were brought here you know and then you had the black codes after that and then you had. jim crow doing you had reconstruction and so is you know it's a lie it's a lie you know and what i will say that is has gotten better during my lifetime. i've seen changes but they came about because people worked to bring those changes black people white people and people of the same i so it wasn't easy the strides that have been made they were hard fought. it off hurt that there are special projects and local director is like new orleans black book or black friendly flat project that comprised black businesses making it easier for black customers to get certain services as

discriminations and segregated south jane crown may be a thing of the past but for instance film director spike lee believes racism is ingrained in the d.n.a. of the united states days think it will ever be overcome completely. well it's going to take a long time because you know with the development of the i guess the you know the country with the native americans and with the you know the the many many years of bondage by africans who were brought here you know then you had the black codes after that then you had. jim crow did you had reconstruction and so is you know it's a lie it's a lie you know and what i will say that is has gotten better during my lifetime. i've seen changes but they came about because people who worked to bring those changes black people white people people of the same i so it wasn't easy the strides that have been made they were hard fought. it off hurt that there are special projects and local director is like new orleans black book or black friendly flat project that comprised black businesses making it easier for black customers to get certain services as this kind of

spike lee's production company is called 40 acres and a mule. that would've been a radical transformation in property ownership without a doubt. the concept was plantations would be divided up into 40 acre plots. and given to the former slaves. you can read a book by, and the georgia sea islands, liberated by the union army early in the war, there were plantations that were divided up and black people were given parcels of land to develop. the person who single-handedly rolled back in that policy was andrew johnson. and andrew johnson sent general howard, a hero of the civil war, to those black people living on the georgia sea islands, to tell them, right off of south carolina that they had to get the land back to the former masters who had enslaved them. it's horrible. that was a horrible thing. they never had a chance to own land. i think by 1900 20% of the african-americans in the south owned some kind of plan. and that was not enough to create an economic base for the middle class that would have sufficient economic clout to make a real diff

i mean, it was like spike lee and zach braff and george stephanopoulos. yeah, those three hang out.w. and -- i just remember thinking, like, if it doesn't play here, like, i'll just -- i'll start something else. oh, wow, gosh. good thing it played. it played well, yeah. and good thing it wasn't a bad day or the president was thinking about, like, bombing osama bin laden at that time or whatever. but he was very good at compartmentalizing. so i think he still -- you remember. i see. he did that correspondents dinner while he was doing that. that's right. yeah, but that -- yeah. right. you're right. you're right. so, and well, it worked out quite well, i guess. yes. i think so. are you working on another musical? not another historical musical, no. but another musical? yeah, i always have ideas and it's sort of -- you kind of wait for the right one to raise its hand and say, "ooh, me." i think you have an idea that you might not even realize you have. tell me more. well, you posted something online. i think it was on twitter. you posted some letters... oh, my god. ...that you wrote to

camera, and you didn't get a lot of black film makers getting to make films, so you really do need spike leeon of race. >> it was like a cultural hand grenade. someone set it off, and you just couldn't believe the things that were being said in that film. they were all under the surface, but they just, they weren't said in that way. >> who's your favorite basketball player? >> magic johnson. >> who's your favorite movie star? >> eddie murphy. >> who's your favorite rock star? >> prince. >> bruce. >> prince. >> bruce! >> all you talk about is nigga this and nigga that. >> it's such a time capsule. at the same time, its theme's universal. >> everyone's interacting and it's funny. >> why don't you move to massachusetts. >> i was born in brooklyn. >> it's creative. it's cultural, it's social. >> stay black. >> it's political. and it has this edge to it. it has this provocation as part of its core. >> get his arm! >> that's enough! >> gary, that's enough, man. >> towards the end of the film, mookie is sort of presented with this choice. a young black man's been murdered. do i retaliate? do i kick

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