115 mins |
Rated
PG-13
Directed by Spike Lee
Starring Delroy Lindo
(Spike Lee, 1994, 115 min) Written with his siblings, Joie and Cinqué, Crooklyn is a semi-autobiographical Spike Lee Joint. A familial effort that started specifically with a script by Spike Lee’s sister, Joie Lee, entitled Hot Peas and Butter, the name of a street game the kids used to play. “The film’s enduring power lies in Spike’s ability to capture the heart of what love and loss looks like for the Carmichael family, and by extension, any family. For me, putting a Black girl at the center of a story anyone in the world could relate to only solidifies the film’s legacy. But for Joie Lee, who was simply writing a story about herself and her family, race was never a question. ‘I don’t think of Crooklyn as cerebral, I think of it as celebratory,’ she said. ‘Crooklyn is a film about memory.’” - Danielle Cadet, Refinery29
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(Spike Lee, 1994, 115 min) Written with his siblings, Joie and Cinqué, Crooklyn is a semi-autobiographical Spike Lee Joint. A familial effort that started specifically with a script by Spike Lee’s sister, Joie Lee, entitled Hot Peas and Butter, the name of a street game the kids used to play. “The film’s enduring power lies in Spike’s ability to capture the heart of what love and loss looks like for the Carmichael family, and by extension, any family. For me, putting a Black girl at the center of a story anyone in the world could relate to only solidifies the film’s legacy. But for Joie Lee, who was simply writing a story about herself and her family, race was never a question. ‘I don’t think of Crooklyn as cerebral, I think of it as celebratory,’ she said. ‘Crooklyn is a film about memory.’” - Danielle Cadet, Refinery29
