The Bigger Picture film club ? ?Do The Right Thing? (1989) at East Dulwich Tavern on 21 April 2016

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The Bigger Picture film club will be showing ?Do The Right Thing? (1989) at 8pm on Thursday, 21 April 2016, Upstairs at East Dulwich Tavern.

Spike Lee?s breakthrough film and all too relevant today, Do The Right Thing is a powerful look at a multi-cultural community around Brooklyn in which a seemingly trivial dispute escalates into a full-blown race riot.

Described as a comedy drama, Do the Right Thing is a milestone in black cinema making. With Lee himself as Mookie, the delivery boy whose dismissal from his job by a bigoted boss Sal (Danny Aiello) sparks a night of rioting, it attracted massive controversy when first released,on the basis it might incite copycat behaviour. Packed with insight, the film examines a cross-section of US society in all its foibles and frailties and is no one-sided polemic. It is not simply about a race riot, but shows the concatenation of events during a sizzlingly-hot 24 hours starting with the death of a young black man, Radio Raheem (Bill Nunn), at the hands of the police and leading to the destruction of Sal?s pizzeria. Deemed culturally significant by the Library of Congress it is one of only six films selected for preservation in the US National Film Registry in its first year eligibility, yet it was famously snubbed by the US Academy at the time of its release. In November 2015 Spike Lee was awarded an honorary Oscar to rectify this.

Director/writer: Spike Lee, with Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Lee, Richard Edson, Bill Nunn, Giancarlo Esposito, John Tururro, Samuel L Jackson

USA 119 minutes. Cert 18A. All tickets ?7.

Bar opens from 7pm. Film at 8pm.

Tickets ?7 from WeGotTickets: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/351051

The Bigger Picture website: http://www.thebiggerpic.co.uk/

The Bigger Picture Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/thebiggerpic?ref=tn_tnmn

Location:

Upstairs at East Dulwich Tavern

1 Lordship Lane

London SE22 8EW

Rail: East Dulwich;

Buses: P13, 37, 185, 176, 40, 484

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Here's a trailer for 'Do the Right Thing':