Spike Lee reflects on the impact that Jim Jarmusch“Stranger Than Paradise” had on its own film career. Lee said under CriterionS “Adventure in film“That he admired his colleague AUTEUR Jarmusch while the duo were both at Tisch Grad School for Film.
On the question of host Sheril Antonio, New York University Tisch School of the Arts’ Senior Associate Dean of Strategic Initiators, which directors mostly influenced his filmmaking while he was at school there, Lee said: “The first I have to become Jim Jarmusch. He was two years before me (in the degree school). as a revelation To all. He is still our hero. ”
It was only two years later when Lee had his own director with 1986’s “She’s Gotta have it.” Jarmusch was not the only NYU booklet that Lee was inspired by: Martin ScorseseWhose name is now called Moniker for Martin Scorsese Department of Cinema Studies at NYU thanks to the recipient George Lucas, had a special moment with the then class student Lee.
“He had a screening of” After Hours “for the school, and after the show he had a question and answer. There was a long line, and I was the last person in a row. I could say, he was like,” I had to come from here, “said Lee about Scorsese.” But we had a conversation and we talked for 20 minutes. He always said it, you know … I won’t say his exact words, but I made an impression on him. “
Lee later lists its top movies about New York City, which publishes movies such as “Dog Day afternoon”, “Network” and of course “Shaft.”
Next for Lee he releases a new recording by Akira Kurosawa’s “High and Low”, entitled “Highst 2 Lowest”, with the movie first premiere at Cannes. Lee’s Frequent collaborator Denzel Washington Stars along with a $ AP Rocky, who plays Washington on the screen.
Lee previously shared that he screened “highest 2 lowest” for Scorsese and wrote The Scorsese “Gusade about Denzel’s magnificent spectacle” and added that Scorsese was “so happy” for Lee. He added a $ AP, “A $ AP, man, he fire. I mean, there are some scenes where him and D go to the head – he is not backed up. Like” I’m here too. “So very, very pleased with how the film turned out and looks forward to sharing it with the world.”
Check out Lee at Criterion’s channel‘S “Adventures in Moviecoing” below.
