Spike Lee and Denzel Washington back together
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Among the weirdest films to premiere at this year’s Cannes Film Festival is Spike Lee ’s out-of-competition drama-thriller Highest 2 Lowest, the kind of idiosyncratic indulgence only a filmmaker of Lee’s stature is allowed.
Lee's "re-imagining" of Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 crime thriller 'High and Low' also stars Ilfenesh Hadera, Jeffrey Wright, Wendell Pierce and rappers ASAP Rocky and Ice Spice.
Cannes has been going on for a full week straight, and it's easy to lose track of time, what with all of the big stars and glitzy premieres, like, you know, Spike Lee debuting his heavily hyped new film.
Highest 2 Lowest was shot across New York with elaborate action scenes in the Bronx, set against the backdrop of Yankee Stadium. During the presser, Lee was asked about shooting in New York and how he thinks the recent drop in production in the city could be resolved.
At a Cannes press conference for his new film "Highest 2 Lowest" on Tuesday, Spike Lee reflected on his five collaborations with Denzel Washington - and said he should have won the best actor Oscar in 1993 over Al Pacino.
Spike Lee is calling out a bad call from the Academy more than 30 years later: The auteur, along with most cinephiles, is convinced that Denzel Washington was snubbed for the Best Actor Oscar for "Malcolm X.