Mo’ Better Blues, the 1990 film by Spike Lee, still crackles with an enduring intensity. Set in a world of black Brooklyn at the beginning of the 1990’s, the film follows Denzel Washington, a working jazz trumpeter, as he approaches maturity. Wesley Snipes plays Washington’s foil as a Saxophone arbiter of New Jack sensibility against Post-bop traditionalism. Spike Lee plays a friend, and his sister Joie Lee plays against Cynda Williams as the women who would love Washington. Coming after She’s Gotta Have It (1986), School Daze (1988), and the sensational hit Do the Right Thing (1989), Mo’ Better Blues captures the ferment of the Fort Greene Brooklyn creative elite at its fever pitch. | Trylon microcinema June 10-12 Director: Spike Lee Producer: Spike Lee Writer: Spike Lee Cinematographer: Ernest R Dickerson Editors: Samuel D Pollard Music: Bill Lee, Branford Marsalis, Terence Blanchard Cast: Denzel Washington, Spike Lee, Wesley Snipes, Giancarlo Esposito, Robin Harris, Joie Lee, Bill Nunn, John Turturro, Cynda Williams, Dick Anthony Williams, Samuel L Jackson, Rubén Blades, Flavor Flav Runtime: 129m. Genre: Drama Country: USA US Theatrical Release: August 3, 1990 US Distributor: Universal Pictures |
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