Directed by Spike Lee • 2000 • United States
Starring Damon Wayans, Savion Glover, Jada Pinkett Smith
With this blisteringly funny, unapologetically confrontational satire, writer-director Spike Lee examined the past, present, and future of racism in American popular culture, issuing a daring provocation to creators and consumers alike. Under pressure to help revive his network’s low ratings, television writer Pierre Delacroix (Damon Wayans) hits on an explosively offensive idea: bringing back blackface with THE NEW MILLENNIUM MINSTREL SHOW. The white network executives love it, and so do audiences, forcing Pierre and his collaborators to confront their public’s insatiable appetite for dehumanizing stereotypes. Shot primarily on unvarnished digital video and boasting spot-on performances from Wayans, Savion Glover, Jada Pinkett Smith, Tommy Davidson, Michael Rapaport, Mos Def, and Paul Mooney, Bamboozled is a stinging indictment of mass entertainment at the turn of the twenty-first century that looks more damning with each passing year.
Please be advised: this film contains offensive racist language and racial stereotypes.
Directed by Spike Lee • 2000 • United States
Starring Damon Wayans, Savion Glover, Jada Pinkett Smith
With this blisteringly funny, unapologetically confrontational satire, writer-director Spike Lee examined the past, present, and future of racism in American popular culture, issuing a daring pr...
The following audio commentary featuring director Spike Lee was recorded in 2001.
In this program, produced in 2019, director Spike Lee and film programmer and critic Ashley Clark discuss BAMBOOZLED.
The following interview with actor and choreographer Savion Glover and actor Tommy Davidson was produced in 2019.
This interview with costume designer Ruth E. Carter was produced in 2019.
In the following interview, produced in 2019, author Racquel Gates, associate professor of cinema and media studies at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York, explores director Spike Lee’s radical work BAMBOOZLED and its critique of the appropriation of black identity in popula...
This fifty-three-minute documentary features director Spike Lee, actors Thomas Jefferson Byrd, Tommy Davidson, Savion Glover, Jada Pinkett Smith, Michael Rappaport, and Damon Wayans; director of photography Ellen Kuras; editor Sam Pollard; production designer Victor Kempster; archivist Judy Aley;...
