Back in 1989, when Spike Lee hit the Cannes International Film Festival for the second time with his “Do the Right Thing,” he was a Brooklyn filmmaker with the hopes of every first-time Competition filmmake: winning a prize. The festival even encouraged him to turn up for the closing-night ceremony, so Lee was furious when Wim Wenders’ jury left him empty-handed.
That still stung nearly 30 years late when Lee returned to Cannes in 2018 with “BlacKkKlansman,” which won the Cannes Grand Prix as well as his first Oscar, for Best Adapted Screenplay. “Cannes can be brutal if you don’t get the right reception: ‘Shit, why did I come?’ It’s good to get the flip side,” he said. “I’ve been doing this for three decades. Making a good film is a miracle. There’s some hard shit.”
2021 marks the first Cannes Festival since May 2019 (pushed to sultry July by the...
That still stung nearly 30 years late when Lee returned to Cannes in 2018 with “BlacKkKlansman,” which won the Cannes Grand Prix as well as his first Oscar, for Best Adapted Screenplay. “Cannes can be brutal if you don’t get the right reception: ‘Shit, why did I come?’ It’s good to get the flip side,” he said. “I’ve been doing this for three decades. Making a good film is a miracle. There’s some hard shit.”
2021 marks the first Cannes Festival since May 2019 (pushed to sultry July by the...
- 7/6/2021
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
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