This February, DelArt Cinema celebrates Black History Month with a series of screenings that show just how powerful love can be.
From finding your significant other-type of love, to the love for a friend that ends up getting you in trouble, to love that’s so uniquely “family”; these films highlight one of the most prolific eras of black filmmaking. A generation of filmmakers who wanted to tell their own stories from their own perspectives and would do what was necessary to make it happen.
If his debut film She’s Gotta Have It was the initial spark of the Black New Wave, his filmography as a whole is an inferno. Spike Lee has been a driving force in storytelling for decades and Crooklyn is his most personal.
A semi-autobiographical portrait of a grade-schooler bonding with her four brothers as her parents worry about the bills. Co-written with two of his siblings, Crooklyn is a reflection on Lee’s childhood and an examination on the bonds built during a time of change.
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