Up Next in Spike Lee’s Adventures in Moviegoing

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  Black Orpheus

  Black Orpheus

  Directed by Marcel Camus • 1959 • Brazil, France
  Starring Breno Mello, Marpessa Dawn, Lourdes de Oliveira

  Winner of both the Academy Award for best foreign-language film and the Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or, Marcel Camus’ BLACK ORPHEUS (ORFEU NEGRO) brings the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus ...

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  Spike Lee on SWEET SWEETBACK'S BAADAS...

  Spike Lee on SWEET SWEETBACK'S BAADAS...

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  Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song

  Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song

  Directed by Melvin Van Peebles • 1971 • United States
  Starring Melvin Van Peebles, Simon Chuckster, Hubert Scales

  A landmark of Black and American independent cinema that would send shock waves through the culture, SWEET SWEETBACK’S BAADASSSSS SONG was Melvin Van Peebles’s second feature film, a...