Do The Right Thing Said It All 30 Years Ago
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Vanity Fair
4.2 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2020
⏱️ 106 minutes
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Summary
A look back at Spike Lee's generation-defining film, and its notorious Oscar snub. Plus, a look at the best films of the year so far, the black protest films to watch in addition to Do the Right Thing, and new releases The King of Staten Island and Spike Lee's own Da 5 Bloods. The episode also includes interviews with Emmy contenders James Corden and Damon Lindelof.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and Oscar goes to. And I can't deny the fact that you like me right now. You like me. |
| 0:17.0 | I'm the King of the World. |
| 0:21.0 | There's a mistake. Moonlight, you guys won best picture. I'm Katie Rich the deputy editor of Vanity Fair.com and I'm here with our digital |
| 0:39.9 | director Mike Kogan. |
| 0:41.0 | Hey Katie. |
| 0:42.0 | Our chief critic, Richard Lawson. |
| 0:44.0 | Hello. |
| 0:45.0 | And joining us back for the first time in a while, our film critic, Cam Collins. |
| 0:48.0 | Hi. |
| 0:49.0 | We have a lot to talk about this week. |
| 0:51.0 | The back after the episode, we are getting back into our |
| 0:54.0 | Emmy season interviews. We have interviews with James Corden and Damon Lindeloff. |
| 0:58.0 | And then in the beginning, Cameron Richard, you guys have been busy |
| 1:01.0 | both summing up the best movies of the year so far because |
| 1:03.8 | 2020 hasn't in fact been five years long we're only halfway through and then you've |
| 1:08.0 | both run various lists reflecting on the ongoing protests in the country and |
| 1:12.4 | also Pride Month. |
| 1:13.7 | So tons and tons of movie recommendations to come down from both of you. |
| 1:17.6 | And then this week we are picking back up our Oscar-themed rewatches |
| 1:20.7 | with what I think I said on Twitter is really the only Oscar |
| 1:24.2 | nominated film that feels relevant to talk about right now which is do the right |
| 1:27.9 | thing so we'll get talking about that later but first of all I I guess, Kamen Richard, please start. There are movies that have come |
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