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Spike Lee rips Coens and Eastwood at Cannes (Reuters)
news.yahoo.com - 5/21/2008
Spike Lee rips Coens and Eastwood at Cannes (Reuters)
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Reuters - Spike Lee is in Cannes to promote a new film, but he couldn't resist taking a few swipes at some fellow directors, including Joel and Ethan Coen and Clint Eastwood.

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FilmDrunk.com:  SPIKE LEE REMINDS US HE'S STILL AROUND

Filmstalker:  Spike Lee on Eastwood and the Coen Brothers

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SPIKE LEE REMINDS US HE'S STILL AROUND
FilmDrunk.com — ...     "Clint Eastwood made two films about Iwo Jima that ran for more than four hours total, and there was not one Negro actor on the screen," he said. "If you reporters had any balls you'd ask him why. There's no way I know why he did that -- that was his vision, not mine. But I know it was pointed out to him and that he could have changed it. It's not like he didn't know." [Yahoo] ...

Spike Lee on Eastwood and the Coen Brothers
Filmstalker — ... he has this to say on Yahoo! about their attitude to life and death in films: I always treat life and death with respect, but most people don't. Look, I love the Coen brothers; we all studied at NYU. But they treat life like a joke. Ha ha ha. A joke. It's like, 'Look how they killed that guy! Look how blood squirts out the side of his head!' I see things different than that." He also took the opportunity to make a point about ...

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