Spike Lee Interview Special

The Empire Film Podcast

Bauer Media

Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Since he burst onto the scene in the late Eighties, Spike Lee has been one of the most inventive and vital voices in American cinema. The great director came to London in February to receive a BFI Fellowship, the highest honour the British Film Institute can bestow, and as part of that received the highest honour the Empire Podcast can bestow: an interview special, in which he sits down with Chris Hewitt for a fascinating chat, in which they talk primarily about Malcolm X, his epic biopic of the great African-American civil rights leader and activist, and a few other things besides. A remastered print of Malcolm X is playing at the BFI Southbank as part of the BFI's excellent Film On Film season, which runs from June 8-11. For tickets and info, go to whatson.bfi.org.uk

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0:00.0	Hello pod, I'm Chris Uel and welcome to our latest Empire Podcast interview special.
0:20.1	Spike Lee is one of the greatest modern American filmmakers.
0:24.0	He's got to have a do the right thing Malcolm X.
0:28.0	He got game 25th hour inside man black clansmen defy floods are just some of the Spike Lee
0:34.7	joins we've been treated to over the last five decades.
0:37.6	He's one of the most influential innovative and vital voices in cinema.
0:42.9	But don't just take my word for a take the word of the British film Institute the BFI
0:47.2	who bestowed their highest honor the BFI fellowship upon Spike in February.
0:52.9	That's when I was invited to have an audience with Spike Lee in a London hotel room which
0:57.5	is what you're about to hear now.
0:59.9	But he wasn't just in London to receive the fellowship.
1:02.8	He also visited the National Film Archive in Birkhamstead just outside London to learn
1:07.6	more about the BFI's incredible work in film restoration and preservation.
1:12.4	As part of that a brand new remastered 4k print of Malcolm X has been created and will
1:18.8	be making its debut as part of the BFI's film on film festival a four day season which
1:25.0	celebrates Ceduloid.
1:26.8	It runs from June 8th to June 11th at the BFI Southbank in London tickets are in sale now
1:32.5	at whatson.bfi.org.uk and will feature all manner of special presentations rare prints exciting
1:40.1	re-discoverys 60mm and 35mm and nitrate prints documentaries special talks and much much
1:48.1	more.
1:49.1	And Malcolm X is going to be playing at the film on film festival on June 10th at 4.20pm
1:55.0	at the NFT one.
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