121 mins |
Rated
TBC
School Daze (Spike Lee, 1988, 121 min)
Sun May 14, 4:30pm
Wed May 17, 4:30pm
This early “deep cut” from Spike Lee depicts political and emotional turmoil between radically conscious frat and sorority members of a fictional HBCU. Politically conscious Dap (Laurence Fishburne) reluctantly helps his dorky cousin (Spike Lee) rush the boorish Gamma frat. Meanwhile, factions of the female student body go head-to-head over identity, style, and hair, as they also do battle with the misogyny and toxic masculinity of the Greek System. A high-energy, highly-stylized film that filters the politics of the post-civil rights generation through MGM musicals, Broadway, Motown, step culture, and more.
“While it lacks the controlled energy and the sense of closure found in She’s Gotta Have It, Spike Lee’s second feature-length ‘film joint’ is much more innovative, ambitious, and exciting: a full-scale tackling of class warfare within the black community, set in a mainly black college in Atlanta, that explodes in every direction.” –Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
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School Daze (Spike Lee, 1988, 121 min)
Sun May 14, 4:30pm
Wed May 17, 4:30pm
This early “deep cut” from Spike Lee depicts political and emotional turmoil between radically conscious frat and sorority members of a fictional HBCU. Politically conscious Dap (Laurence Fishburne) reluctantly helps his dorky cousin (Spike Lee) rush the boorish Gamma frat. Meanwhile, factions of the female student body go head-to-head over identity, style, and hair, as they also do battle with the misogyny and toxic masculinity of the Greek System. A high-energy, highly-stylized film that filters the politics of the post-civil rights generation through MGM musicals, Broadway, Motown, step culture, and more.
“While it lacks the controlled energy and the sense of closure found in She’s Gotta Have It, Spike Lee’s second feature-length ‘film joint’ is much more innovative, ambitious, and exciting: a full-scale tackling of class warfare within the black community, set in a mainly black college in Atlanta, that explodes in every direction.” –Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
