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Do the Right Thing

July 2021

  • ‘We have to speak out against gangsters’ … Spike Lee at the 74th Cannes film festival.

    Spike Lee: ‘You hope that black people will stop being hunted down like animals’

    The director has spoken about race at the Cannes film festival, where he is the first black president of the Palme d’Or jury

December 2019

  • Danny Aiello, who has died

    Danny Aiello, Do the Right Thing star, dies aged 86

    Oscar-nominated character actor made his breakthrough in Moonstruck and appeared in The Godfather Part II

August 2019

  • Clockwise from top left: Anna Meredith; Takis; Salt-N-Pepa; The Hiccup Project: Lovely Girls; Evita; Do the Right Thing

    Culture highlights of the week
    What to see this week in the UK

    From Animals to Evita, here’s our pick of the best films, concerts, exhibitions, theatre and dance over the next seven days

July 2018

  • Ludivine Sagnier in Swimming Pool.

    From Do the Right Thing to Swimming Pool: culture's hottest heatwaves

    Tension simmers, passions rage and things are never the same again. We pick the books, film and music in which heatwaves inspire race riots, sexual abandon – and even a chainsaw massacre

June 2018

  • Black Panther, starring Lupita Nyong’o and Letitia Wright

    Guy Lodge's streaming and DVDs
    Streaming: in search of the films that inspired Black Panther

    From a Senegalese road movie to lesbian blues goddesses, dig deep online for gems of African disapora cinema

March 2016

  • Public Enemy - Flavor Flav, Professor Griff, Terminator X and one of the S1W crew

    How we made
    How we made Public Enemy's Fight the Power

    ‘The hood was on its own, abandoned at every level. Fight the Power was
    the anthem of the streets’

February 2016

  • Bette Davis in Of Human Bondage

    The 10 best ...
    The 10 best Oscars snubs

    Ahead of this year’s Academy Awards ceremony, we look at the most infamous Oscars oversights

August 2015

  • Do the Right Thing

    Spike Lee to get honorary Oscar 25 years after Do the Right Thing

    Director’s snub for 1989 film about racial tension in Brooklyn is considered by some to be one of the most glaring in Academy history

May 2015

  • Diane Keaton and Woody Allen in Manhattan

    Goodfellas to Ghost: a movie scout's favourite New York City film locations – in pictures

  • LA's Bradbury Building in Blade Runner

    Step into my evil modernist lair, Mr Bond: the best urban buildings in film

February 2015

  • dope film

    That's a rap: is hip-hop entering a new golden age of cinema?

    With upcoming biopics on NWA, Ol’ Dirty Bastard and Raekwon, plus dramas such as Dope, Ben Westhoff says hip-hop-inspired films could soon rival the halcyon days of the 90s

August 2014

  • Film and Television

    Film blog
    Why I'd like to be … Samuel L Jackson in Do The Right Thing

    Spike Lee's film has it all. Comedy, murder, politics, a stellar R&B soundtrack, and some of the best lines in cinema history. And at its centre is Jackson, on the cusp of fame, playing DJ Mister Señor Love Daddy, writes Ashley Clark

July 2014

  • Do the Right Thing

    How we made
    How we made Do the Right Thing

    Giancarlo Esposito, actor: 'We ended up crying in each other's arms after the riot scene – we'd said some horrible things to each other'

April 2010

  • "Sugar" 2008 Sundance Portrait Shoot

    The film that changed my life
    The film that changed my life: Ryan Fleck

    Director Ryan Fleck explains how Spike Lee's 1989 film Do the Right Thing opened his eyes to the power of cinema

October 2009

  • Spike Lee on In the Director's Chair

    In the director's chair
    Spike Lee: 'Anyone who thinks we move in a post-racial society is someone who's been smoking crack'

    It has been 20 years since the release of Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing. The director tells Jason Solomons how his films - including She's Gotta Have It, Malcolm X and She Hate Me - have changed Hollywood, and how they haven't

September 2009

  • John Turturro, Danny Aiello and Richard Edson in Do the Right Thing (1989)

    The Guardian Film Show
    Film Weekly meets Spike Lee and Joe Wright

    Jason Solomons meets Spike Lee on the 20th anniversary of Do the Right Thing and discusses music and mental illness with The Soloist director Joe Wright

July 2009

  • John Turturro and Spike Lee in Do the Right Thing (1989)

    Film blog
    The view: 20 years on, you can still Do the Right Thing

    Danny Leigh: Two decades after it opened in a sweltering mid-summer, Spike Lee's masterpiece will still bring you out in a sweat

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