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Spike Lee 25 years on

She’s Gotta Have It, his brash, unconventional first feature, was released on Aug. 8, 1986, establishing the director as a new and maverick voice in American filmmaking. A quarter century later, Spike Lee still maintains the outsider’s perspective despite being a master of the inside game. Michael E. Ross looks at what was and what’s next. See Movies

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Salamisha Tillet of The Root on She’s Gotta Have It as the first warning shot of a revolution in black American film

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