Spike Lee on His “Dream Project,” a Joe Louis Bio-Pic
The New Yorker Radio Hour
WNYC Studios and The New Yorker
4.2 • 6.2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2023
⏱️ 32 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is The New Yorker Radio Hour, a co-production of WNYC Studios and The New Yorker. |
| 0:09.8 | Welcome to The New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm Adam Howard, in today for David Remnick. |
| 0:14.7 | If you came of age watching Spike Lee movies, as I did, or joints as he likes to call him, |
| 0:19.3 | you quickly became familiar with his public persona. |
| 0:22.2 | He was ambitious, uncompromising, and outspoken, and as far as his critics were concerned, |
| 0:26.7 | maybe a little too outspoken. But Spike Lee was a groundbreaking voice, especially for black audiences. |
| 0:33.3 | Some of us, we got to see the richness and complexity of our lives portrayed on screen for the very first time watching his films. |
| 0:40.3 | His 40 years of filmmaking include classics like Malcolm X and do the right thing. |
| 0:45.3 | Several documentaries including a couple about Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans, |
| 0:50.3 | and recent favorites like Black Klansmen and Defive Bloods. |
| 0:53.3 | And he's still making movies destined to stir the pot. |
| 0:57.0 | The subject of his latest project, |
| 0:58.9 | former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick, |
| 1:01.8 | classic Spike Lee. |
| 1:07.0 | Thank you, thank you. |
| 1:09.7 | Can I say something first before we start? |
| 1:13.6 | It's Brooklyn in the house. |
| 1:15.6 | Oh, now we can start. |
| 1:18.6 | David Remnick sat down the other day with Spike Lee at the New Yorker Festival. |
| 1:22.6 | They began talking about Spike's father, the bassist and composer Bill Lee died at age 94 this year. |
| 1:32.6 | In his time, your dad was the bass player that everybody wanted to play with. It's an amazing |
| 1:37.8 | thing. Duke Ellington, Billy Holiday, Aretha Franklin, he played on It's All Over Now, Baby |
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