ATR #94 – Director Spotlight: Spike Lee

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During Black History Month I want to showcase and highlight my friends, colleagues, and people I look up to who are doing great things. Actor/ comedian/ podcaster Chris Lamberth, from “The Mundane Festival” joined this episode to talk about the one and only Spike Lee! On this episode we tackled just a small sampling of Spike Lee’s massive catalog, and talked about movies from each decade starting with 1986’s “She’s Gotta Have It”, and taking us all the way to 2015’s “Chi-Raq”. ➡ You can now buy t-shirts, sweaters, mugs, and more from the store on Threadless! Head on over to AboutToReview.Threadless.com to see the selection! Time code breakdown: 0m:00s – 3m:45s: Introduction of the episode topic and guest 3m:45s – 26m:55s: Getting to know you: Chris Lamberth edition! 26m:55s – : Background on Spike Lee and our first experiences with his films 26m:55s – 48m:10s: Discussion of a selection of Spike Lee’s films from the 1980’s: * 1986: “She’s Gotta Have It” (IMDB.com/ShesGottaHaveIt) * 1988: “School Daze” (IMDB.com/SchoolDaze) * 1989: “Do The Right Thing” (IMDB.com/DoTheRightThing) 48m:10s – 1h:12m: Discussion of a selection of Spike Lee’s films from the 1990’s: * 1990: “Mo’ Better Blues” (IMDB.com/MoBetterBlues) * 1991: “Jungle Fever” (IMDB.com/JungleFever) * 1992: “Malcolm X” (IMDB.com/MalcolmX) * 1994: “Crooklyn”: (IMDB.com/Crooklyn) * 1997: “4 Little Girls”: (IMDB.com/4LittleGirls) * 1994: “He Got Game”: (IMDB.com/HeGotGame) 1h:12m – 1h:43m: Discussion of a selection of Spike Lee’s films from the 2000’s: * 2000: “Original Kings of Comedy” (IMDB.com/OriginalKingsOfComedy) * 2000: “Bamboozled” (IMDB.com/Bamboozled) * 2002: “25th Hour” (IMDB.com/25th Hour) * 2006: “Inside Man”: (IMDB.com/Inside Man) * 2015: “Chi-Raq”: (IMDB.com/Chi-Raq) 1h:43m – 1h:47m: Wrap up and social media handles Thank you so much to Chris for taking the time out of his busy schedule to Skype into the show and have this discussion about Spike Lee! Guest info: * Chris Lamberth: Actor, stand up comedian, and the creator and host of “The Mundane Festival” podcast. Make sure to follow him on social media from the links below: * Twitter: Personal – @ChrisLamberth and Podcast – @MundaneFestival *

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