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We've Gotta Have It
Seymour, Gene | April 2, 2001 issue

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It is informed that the more recent explosion in black film, which Spike Lee helped detonate with the unexpected triumphs of She's Gotta Have It and Do the Right Thing, has brought an unprecedented diversity of African-American sensibilities and voices to both mainstream and independent film. Even a limited recitation of 1990s black films-- from such art-house legends as Charles Burnett's To Sleep With Anger, Julie Dash's Daughters of the Dust and Carl Franklin's One False Move, to such pop phenomenon as John Singleton's Boyz N the Hood, F. Gray's Friday and Forest Whitaker's Waiting to Exhale-- is enough to suggest the breadth of African-American movie-makers' work at the millennial cusp.

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SHE'S Gotta Have It (Film); DO the Right Thing (Film); LEE, Spike; MOTION picture producers & directors; MOTION pictures; BURNETT, Charles; DASH, Julie
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