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Title Do the right thing / a Forty Acres and a Mule Filmworks production ; produced, written and directed by Spike Lee.

Publication Info. [New York, New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2019]

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 Moore Video  PN1997 .D684 2019    Available  Ask at Circulation Desk
 Moore Video  PN1997 .D684 2019  folded insert    Available  Ask at Circulation Desk
Description 2 DVDs (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert (1 folded leaf : color illustrations ; 18 cm).
digital
optical
surround
widescreen (1.85:1)
NTSC
video file
DVD video
region 1
Motion picture
Physical Medium polychrome
Series Criterion collection ; 97
Criterion collection ; 97.
System Details DVD, NTSC, Region 1; widescreen (1.85:1 aspect ratio) presentation; Dolby audio 5.1 surround.
Cast Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Richard Edson, Giancarlo Esposito, Spike Lee, Bill Nunn, John Turturro, John Savage, Rosie Perez.
Credits Director of photography, Ernest Dickerson; editor, Barry Alexander Brown; music Bill Lee.
Note Videodisc release of the motion picture produced in 1989.
Audience MPAA rating: R.
Summary Story of the racial tensions that surround a white-owned pizzeria in the Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn on the hottest day of the summer. One of the most controversial and thought-provoking films ever made. Bonus material includes commentary with Director Spike Lee and more.
Note Special features: new 4K digital restoration, approved by cinematographer, Ernest Dickerson; audio commentary from 1995 featuring director Spike Lee, cinematographer, Ernest Dickerson, production designer Wynn Thomas, and actor Joie Lee; introductions by Lee; Making "Do the right thing," a documentary from 1988 by St. Clair Bourne; new interviews with costume designer Ruth E. Carter, camera assistant Darnell Martin, New York City Council member Robert Cornegy Jr., and writer Nelson George; interview with editor Barry Alexander Brown from 2000; programs from 2000 and 2009 featuring Lee and members of the cast and crew; Twenty years later, an interview program from 2009 featuring Lee and members of the cast and crew; music video for Public Enemy's "Fight the power," directed by Lee, with remarks from rapper Chuck D; behind-the-scenes footage; Cannes Film Festival press conference from 1989; deleted and extended scenes; original storyboards, trailer, and TV spots; an essay by critic Vinson Cunningham and extensive excerpts from the journal Lee kept during the preparation for and production of the film.
Language Open-captioned for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).
Subject United States -- Race relations -- Drama.
United States.
Race relations.
Genre/Form Drama.
Subject African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Relations with Italian Americans -- Drama.
African Americans.
New York (State) -- New York.
Italian American families -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama.
Italian American families.
African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama.
Family-owned business enterprises -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama.
Family-owned business enterprises.
Police brutality -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama.
Police brutality.
Riots -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama.
Riots.
African Americans -- Relations with Italian Americans.
Genre/Form Dark comedy films.
Feature films.
Motion pictures.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Video recordings.
Video recordings.
Drama.
Added Author Lee, Spike, film director, screenwriter, film producer, actor.
Aiello, Danny, 1933-2019, actor.
Davis, Ossie, actor.
Dee, Ruby, actor.
Edson, Richard, actor.
Esposito, Giancarlo, actor.
Nunn, Bill, 1952-2016, actor.
Turturro, John, 1957- actor.
Savage, John, 1949- actor.
Perez, Rosie, actor.
Forty Acres & a Mule Filmworks, production coompany.
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.
Added Title Container of (work): Do the right thing (Motion picture)
ISBN 9781681436173
1681436175
Standard No. 715515232715
Music No. CC3054DDVD The Criterion Collection