Bamboozled / a Spike Lee joint ; New Line Cinema presents ; a 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks production ; produced by Jon Kilik, Spike Lee ; written and directed by Spike Lee.
Edition:
Director-approved Blu-ray special edition.
Publisher:
The Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2020
Description:
1 videodisc (136 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet (17 x 72 folded to 17 x 12 cm)
Damon Wayans, Savion Glover, Jada Pinkett-Smith, Tommy Davidson, Michael Rapaport. Title and credits from screen. Originally released as a motion picture in 2000. Wide screen (1.77:1). Special features: audio commentary from 2001 featuring Spike Lee; In conversation: Spike Lee with film programmer and critic Ashley Clark; Manray & Womack (new interviews with choreographer and actor Savion Glover, actor Tommy Davidson); Ruth E. Carter (interview with costume designer Ruth E. Carter); On Blackface and the minstrel show (a new interview program featuring film and media scholar Racquel Gates); The making of "Bamboozled" (2001), a documentary featuring Lee, Glover, Davidson, actors Jada Pinkett Smith, Michael Rapaport, and Daman Wayans, and other members of the cast and crew; deleted scenes; music videos for the Mau Maus' "Blak iz blak" and Gerald Levert's "Dream with no love" and alternate parody commercials created for the film; post gallery and trailer. Insert includes essay, "New millennium, same bullshit" by Ashley Clark.
Summary:
Under pressure to help revive his network's low ratings, television writer Pierre Delacroix hits on an explosively offensive idea: bringing back blackface with "The New Millennium Minstrel Show." The white network executives love it, and so do audiences, forcing Pierre and his collaborators to confront their public's insatiable appetite for dehumanizing stereotypes.
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