About the Event
The best. The iconic. The foundation of cinema... They are The Essentials! Hosted by Adelaide’s own Dave Bradley, these films that are the absolute, must-see titles for true film lovers.
Spike Lee's Oscar-nominated feature about what happens when tensions flare up on the hottest day of the year in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn. Hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.
Director:
Spike Lee
Actors:
Giancarlo Esposito,
Spike Lee,
John Turturro,
Rosie Perez,
Danny Aiello,
Ossie Davis,
Ruby Dee,
Samuel L. Jackson,
Martin Lawrence,
Frankie Faison,
Joie Lee
Salvatore "Sal" Fragione (Danny Aiello) is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggin' Out (Giancarlo Esposito), becomes upset when he sees that the pizzeria's Wall of Fame exhibits only Italian actors. Buggin' Out believes a pizzeria in a black neighborhood should showcase black actors, but Sal disagrees. The wall becomes a symbol of racism and hate to Buggin' Out and to other people in the neighborhood, and tensions rise.