Leave it to Spike Lee to explode the typical high-stakes remake. His new film, Highest 2 Lowest, which opened Friday, flips Akira Kurosawa’s mannered 1963 staple, High and Low, into a rowdy, topical, laugh-out-loud romp (starring Denzel Washington, Jeffrey Wright, and A$AP Rocky) that’s as beautifully jarring as a dissonant sax solo. On a recent call from New York, Lee …
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A much-publicized, multi-part documentary series for ESPN Films about former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick is no longer proceeding with the company. “ESPN, Colin Kaepernick and Spike Lee have collectively decided to no longer proceed with this project as a result of certain creative differences,” an ESPN spokesperson told The Athletic. “Despite not reaching finality, we appreciate all the hard work …
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ESPN Films had commissioned Spike Lee to create an eight-part documentary regarding former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick. The series, however, will not be released. Via Reuters.com, both ESPN and Lee said on Saturday that the docuseries is dead. “ESPN, Colin Kaepernick and Spike Lee have collectively decided to no longer proceed with this project as a result of certain creative …
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Director Spike Lee’s multi-part documentary series for ESPN Films about former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who sparked a national debate when he protested racial injustice nearly a decade ago, will not be released, the filmmaker and ESPN said. “ESPN, Colin Kaepernick and Spike Lee have collectively decided to no longer proceed with this project as a result of certain creative …
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And Denzel is having a good-ass time. Always the coolest guy in the room—rocking a diamond earring and waves, with the walls of his home office lined with images of stars of like Nas, Hendrix, Ali, and Jordan—with jokes for everyone and a hubristic streak that makes me think of his dishonest police chief in Carl Franklin’s heater Out of …
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Denzel Washington plays music mogul David King in Highest 2 Lowest. David Lee hide caption toggle caption David Lee Attempting to reimagine Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 near-perfect High and Low may seem like a fool’s errand, but ultimately it’s easy to understand Spike Lee’s desire to do so. Lee is both a noted cinephile and longtime examiner of the haves and …
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In choosing to adapt Akira Kurosawa’s High and Low, Spike Lee set the bar for himself formidably high. That 1963 thriller is one of the Japanese auteur’s finest, a study in stark social contrasts that unfolds in two discrete acts: the first a tense chamber drama set in the hilltop home of a wealthy manufacturer, the second a sprawling procedural …
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In the new Spike Lee film “Highest 2 Lowest,” Denzel Washington stars as music mogul David King. He lives at the top of the world — which, of course, is a New York City zip code — in a glittering penthouse with stunning views outside and a picture-perfect wife and teenage son safely inside. Until one’s not. Then, King gets …
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