Despite a muted reception back in May 1994 — certainly compared to Spike Lee’s previous film “Malcolm X” — “Crooklyn” has endured for three decades as one of the director’s most treasured films. At ...

Oh, the perilous joys of nostalgia on film. Memory is inviting. You can write and rewrite the narrative until it achieves a sort of crystalline perfection. Your best day, that first love, the purity ...

Spike Lee has a legendary collection of movies that he wrote (or co-wrote) and directed. Many of Lee's films are socially relevant, and even still have something to say today, like Do the Right Thing.

In 1994, after the release of the expensive, time consuming and controversial Malcolm X, Spike Lee toned it down a bit for his next film Crooklyn. With a young girl playing the protagonist, Troy, the ...

This year marks the 20th anniversary of Spike Lee’s semi-autobiographical film, Crooklyn, which came on the eve of his expensive and controversial Malcolm X. We take a look at what’s happened to the ...

Spike Lee’s “Crooklyn” is hot as a Bedford-Stuyvesant sidewalk in July, snappy as burgers sizzling or radios rocking-and sometimes as sweet as an evening breeze after a day full of trouble. It’s a ...

A Spike Lee joint: The brownstone used in "Crooklyn" -- written by both the famed director and his sister, Joie Lee -- is relisting in Bed-Stuy. DDreps; Emily Gilbert; Getty Images A Brooklyn ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X A still from Spike Lee’s Crooklyn. Hopscotch, stick ball, dominoes, and double-dutch: the 1994 ...

IndieWire speaks to stars Delroy Lindo and Zelda Harris, co-writers Joie and Cinque Lee, and more about Spike Lee's autobiographical drama, which was informed by his own childhood. At the time, Spike ...

Yeah, now I am traumatized all over again. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. It also may be his movie that I've watched the most.

Relatively unknown at the time, Harlem’s own, Bokeem Woodbine got his start as an extra in Ernest Dickerson‘s classic film, Juice. After a starring role in HBO’s Strapped, Woodbine would go on to have ...