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Mo' Better Blues

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Mo' Better Blues Information
1,208 words, approx. 4 pages
Mo' Better Blues is a 1990 drama film starring Denzel Washington, Wesley Snipes, and Spike Lee, who also directed. It follows a period in the life of a fictional jazz trumpeter Bleek Gilliam (played by Denzel Washington) as a series of bad decisions...


News and Journals
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National Review
Mo' Better Blues.
09/03/1990: 1,722 words, approx. 6 pages
SPIKE LEE's intention with his new film, Mo' Better Blues, was to tell the life of a jazz musician accurately, not as seen in movies by white filmmakers. The sales pitch for the movie is that Bertrand Tavernier's Round Midnight and Clint Eastwood's Bird...
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Ebony
Mo' Better Blues. (book reviews)
10/01/1990: 586 words, approx. 2 pages
EBONY BOOK SHELF The production diaries that actor/writer/director Spike Lee has published concurrent with the opening of each of his films are almost as anxiously awaited as the movies themselves. Like the movies, the books - which include production notes, storyboards and the...
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AP News
Spike Lee wins Polk Award
2/20/2007: 557 words, approx. 2 pages
Director Spike Lee was named Tuesday as a winner of the annual George Polk Awards for his documentary on life in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.Lee, the director of "Malcolm X" and "Do the Right Thing," was honored for "When the Levees Broke: A Requiem...
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AP Features
Spike Lee wins Polk journalism award for New Orleans documentary 'Levees'
2/20/2007: 569 words, approx. 2 pages
Director Spike Lee was named Tuesday as one of the winners of the annual George Polk Awards for journalism for his acclaimed documentary on life in post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans.Lee, the director of "Malcolm X" and "Do the Right Thing," was honored for "When the...
 


Criticism and Essays
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Critical Essay by Jim Merod
5,322 words, approx. 18 pages
In the following essay, Merod analyzes Lee's portrayal of jazz in his Mo' Better Blues, and includes a discussion with other scholars about the importance of jazz in the film.


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