Do The Right Thing VHS (1989)

Spike Lee’s Do The Right Thing (1989) sparked the hearts, minds & jolted a public consciousness that was asleep at the switch for too long by the late 80’s, when racial tensions & black oppression was reaching an apex everywhere except on the silver screen – sending a cinematic shock to the system & awakening a generation. This earth-shattering 3rd film by the Brooklyn born 32-year old local indie filmmaker had a such visceral impact both domestically & internationally, it transformed Lee almost instantly into a modern icon, permanently etched his name in the annals of America’s film canon forever. This channeled as equal parts the radical liberating cinema language of directors like Melvin Van Peebles, with the potent poetry-in-motion style of such European powerhouse auteurs as Pasolini, delivering fresh stream-of-conscious style all its own.

Centered on a predominantly black neighborhood in Bedford-Stuyvesant facing a record high heat wave, while internally dealing with boiling tensions the community & the bigoted Italian owners of a local pizza parlor – this is your chance to own this masterpiece on the original MCA released VHS.