Spike Lee Film Festival Schedule of Events

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Spike Lee Film Festival Schedule of Events

Friday, Jan. 22
Do the Right Thing
7 p.m., the Orpheum Theater, 15 W. Aspen Ave., Suggested donation $5-10.
On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, hate and bigotry smolder and build until exploding into violence. Rated R, 120 minutes

Saturday, Jan. 23
4 Little Girls
4 p.m., NAU Cline Library Assembly Hall, free
A documentary about the notorious bombing of an African-American church during the Civil Rights movement. Rated R, 102 minutes

Bamboozled
7 p.m., Cline Library Assembly Hall, free
A frustrated African-American TV writer proposes a blackface minstrel show in protest, but to his chagrin it becomes a hit. Rated R, 135 minutes

Sunday, Jan. 24
She’s Gotta Have It 
4 p.m., Cline Library Assembly Hall, free
The story of Nola Darling’s simultaneous sexual relationships with three different men is told by her and by her partners and other friends. Rated R, 84 minutes

School Daze 
7 p.m., Cline Library Assembly Hall, free
A not-so-popular young man wants to pledge to a popular fraternity at his historically black college. Rated R, 121 minutes


whenleveesbroke03Tuesday, Jan. 26
Monday, Jan. 25
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Actparts 1 and 2
Cline Library Assembly Hall, 7 p.m., free
A special two-night presentation of Spike Lee’s Emmy Award-winning documentary about Hurricane Katrina and the devastation of New Orleans. Rated TVMA, approximately 2 hours

When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts, parts 3 and 4
Cline Library Assembly Hall, 7 p.m., free
Continuation of Spike Lee’s Emmy Award-winning documentary about Hurricane Katrina and the devastation of New Orleans. Rated TVMA, approximately 2 hours