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"Red Hook Summer": Spike Lee Goes Back to Brooklyn

Arthouse Movie Listings February 8-14, 2012

Year in Film: Ten Films We Can't Wait to Watch in 2012

Get Stewed with Stew and The Negro Problem's Making It

​Listen to this while high: Stew and the Negro Problem's Making it. Stew and Heidi Rodewald​ Behind the buzz: Before decamping for Broadway and glory, Stew was among L.A.'s most puckish live performers and the Negro Problem the focus of a devoted local cult. Post Minstrel Syndrome  ... More >>

Swam Lake

​Listen to this while high: Stew and the Negro Problem's Making it. Stew and Heidi Rodewald​ Behind the buzz: Before decamping for Broadway and glory, Stew was among L.A.'s most puckish live performers and the Negro Problem the focus of a devoted local cult. Post Minstrel Syndrome  ... More >>

Thursday's Pick: SFinExile Spoken-Word Series

​SFinExile Spoken-Word SeriesThe Garage6:30 p.m., $10-$20 Spike Lee's senior thesis at Tisch School of the Arts was a short film called Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads. Some guy named Ang Lee (no relation, as far as we know) was the assistant director, and it's endlessly fascinating that f ... More >>

Behind the Striped Pole

​SFinExile Spoken-Word SeriesThe Garage6:30 p.m., $10-$20 Spike Lee's senior thesis at Tisch School of the Arts was a short film called Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads. Some guy named Ang Lee (no relation, as far as we know) was the assistant director, and it's endlessly fascinating that f ... More >>

Urban Jungle

​SFinExile Spoken-Word SeriesThe Garage6:30 p.m., $10-$20 Spike Lee's senior thesis at Tisch School of the Arts was a short film called Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads. Some guy named Ang Lee (no relation, as far as we know) was the assistant director, and it's endlessly fascinating that f ... More >>

In Living Color

​SFinExile Spoken-Word SeriesThe Garage6:30 p.m., $10-$20 Spike Lee's senior thesis at Tisch School of the Arts was a short film called Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads. Some guy named Ang Lee (no relation, as far as we know) was the assistant director, and it's endlessly fascinating that f ... More >>

Tap Tap Tap

​SFinExile Spoken-Word SeriesThe Garage6:30 p.m., $10-$20 Spike Lee's senior thesis at Tisch School of the Arts was a short film called Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads. Some guy named Ang Lee (no relation, as far as we know) was the assistant director, and it's endlessly fascinating that f ... More >>

Passing Strange: The Movie

​SFinExile Spoken-Word SeriesThe Garage6:30 p.m., $10-$20 Spike Lee's senior thesis at Tisch School of the Arts was a short film called Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads. Some guy named Ang Lee (no relation, as far as we know) was the assistant director, and it's endlessly fascinating that f ... More >>

Oh, Brother

​SFinExile Spoken-Word SeriesThe Garage6:30 p.m., $10-$20 Spike Lee's senior thesis at Tisch School of the Arts was a short film called Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads. Some guy named Ang Lee (no relation, as far as we know) was the assistant director, and it's endlessly fascinating that f ... More >>

Very Minor Miracle

No matter the run time and budget, Spike Lee's WWII drama is an epic bore.

SF Government InAction: If Anyone at City Hall was Paying Attention to the Civil Grand Jury Report, They'd be Furious. Fortunately, That Never Happens!

No matter the run time and budget, Spike Lee's WWII drama is an epic bore.

B.A.R.E. Your Butt

No matter the run time and budget, Spike Lee's WWII drama is an epic bore.

Do I Look Like Him?

No matter the run time and budget, Spike Lee's WWII drama is an epic bore.

Pause & Rewind

The best DVDs of '07 made old movies feel new again.

Make Your Mama Cry

The best DVDs of '07 made old movies feel new again.

Cold War Reheated

The best DVDs of '07 made old movies feel new again.

Repertory Film Listings

The best DVDs of '07 made old movies feel new again.

Again With the Serious Face?

Adam Sandler plays a 9/11 widower and finally nails a somber role

Weird and Wonderful

Adam Sandler plays a 9/11 widower and finally nails a somber role

A True Horror Classic

Adam Sandler plays a 9/11 widower and finally nails a somber role

Bebop Beauty

A glimmering production rescues a riveting but dense play from the ivory tower

Sans Quentin

Lucky Number Slevin plays Tarantino's game, without Tarantino's results

It's a Crime

Spike Lee's Inside Man plots the heist of your moviegoing dollars

Our top DVD picks for the week of March 7

Spike Lee's Inside Man plots the heist of your moviegoing dollars

The Price Is Wrong

Freedomland turns a rich, complex book into a poor, simple movie

Rock Artist

Andy's outdoor factory

I Hate It

This Spike Lee joint is a cockeyed, self-righteous, and graceless diatribe

The Misadventures of Spike's Dykes

We love lesbians, and we love movies, so why don't we love Spike Lee's lesbian movie She Hate Me?

Wrong Wayans

Do the right thing: Avoid White Chicks in bad masks

Summer Film Previews

Do the right thing: Avoid White Chicks in bad masks

The Great Entertainer

Cedric lives up to his name

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, February 18, 2004

Annual Resolution

Focus in on digital filmmaking at this year's ResFest

Dog Bites

Nothing happened last week – and Laurel Wellman tells you all about it

The Negro Problem

Spike Lee's new racial satire starts out strong, but ends up wasting ammunition

A Quality Year

After years of creative drought, inspiration was again in long supply

That Summer of '77

After years of creative drought, inspiration was again in long supply

Hear This

After years of creative drought, inspiration was again in long supply

Night + Day

After years of creative drought, inspiration was again in long supply

Zoom Lens

After years of creative drought, inspiration was again in long supply

Zoom Lens

After years of creative drought, inspiration was again in long supply

Night+Day

After years of creative drought, inspiration was again in long supply

Samples

After years of creative drought, inspiration was again in long supply

Night+Day

After years of creative drought, inspiration was again in long supply

Letters

After years of creative drought, inspiration was again in long supply

All the Dead Young Men

In Clockers, Spike Lee evokes the self-contained hell of a drug-infested Brooklyn neighborhood

Hip-Hop Horror

Tales From the Hood doesn't stray far from reality in its payback-themed vignettes