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Interview With Spike Lee On Miracle At St. Anna…
September 24th, 2008
…which opens this Friday.
This is my third installment of my Blacks In War Movies series
I implore you to consider seeing this film in the theaters even if you usually don’t go to the movies. If movies like this fail to earn significant box office; esepcially when they’ve put a level of promotion behind that studios don’t usually do for serious Black movies, then it will great limit other black quality black films from be promoted or even made.
You vote for the types of movies you want made with your dollars.
Black Voices has an interview with Spike Lee in a piece called
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Spike Lee Talks ‘Miracle At. St. Anna’
I’m sure if you asked him, Spike Lee would tell you that all the films that he’s done are important, but to others, his latest film to date, ‘Miracle at St. Anna’, will strike more of a chord than any of his previous ones. Rather than seeing them in the background in other war films, it puts Blacks at the front and center of a war and there are plenty of individuals who will relate to this.
‘Miracle at St. Anna’, which comes out on Sept. 26, chronicles the story of four black American soldiers (Derek Luke, Michael Ealy, Laz Alonso, and Omar Benson Miller) who are members of the US Army as part of the all-black 92nd “Buffalo Soldier” Division stationed in Tuscany, Italy during World War II.
They experience the tragedy and triumph of the war as they find themselves trapped behind enemy lines and separated from their unit after one of them risks his life to save an Italian boy.
Directed by Spike Lee from a screenplay written by James McBride, the author of the acclaimed novel of the same name, the film explores a deeply inspiring, powerful story drawn from true history; that transcends national boundaries, race, and class to touch the goodness within us all.
Also featured in the film are Matteo Sciabordi, John Leguizamo, Joseph Gordon Levitt, Kerry Washington, Michael K. Williams, Valentina Cervi and Pierfrancesco Favino.
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