Spike Lee

One of the bonuses of being a cinephile in London are the number of talks with well known film practitioners. The BFI normally has at least one major filmmaker speaking every month. This month it was Spike Lee who was in town to help promote screenings of Do the Right Thing in its twentieth year since release. The quality of these talks depend highly on the interviewee getting some flow to proceedings and David Lammy MP was a pretty good choice. Spike had to cut him off early in the night to make sure he got to the point but after that it was an enjoyable evening. The highlight ironically was getting home and turning on Newsnight to see Spike Lee ask Jeremy Paxman "How long have you been black?"

Werner Herzog next up, this Saturday at the Royal Festival Hall. "Chaos, hostility and murder." Can't wait!

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