Hess green stephen tyrone williams is introduced to a mysteriously cursed. Da sweet blood of jesus is a new kind of cinema for spike lee. Spike lee has made great movies 25th hour, bold, memorable, topical ones do the right thing, malcolm x and a few youve probably forgotten da sweet blood of jesus, miracle at st. Its visually impressive, though moody and sometimes slowmoving, with several grisly scenes that show people being stabbed and strangled. Spike lee turns an intriguing eye to the sweet blood of vampires spike lee s new vampire film, da sweet blood of jesus, was funded through kickstarter and. Just after we learned that spike lee s crowdfunded indie da sweet blood of jesus would arrive on valentines day weekend next year, the first trailer has arrived, and this certainly looks like. Spike lee s stylized thriller da sweet blood of jesus is a new kind of love story that questions the very nature of love, addiction, sex, and status in our seemingly sophisticated society. Spike lees new stylized thriller da sweet blood of jesus is a new kind of love story. Shot in just 16 days, this was another remake from the director, only much more successful than his previous remake attempt. All 25 spike lee movies ranked from worst to best page 2. Ganja and hess is one of my favorite films but theres more to it. Sunday evening, a nearly soldout crowd gathered at the school of visual arts theatre in the chelsea neighborhood of manhattan to see the world premiere of da sweet blood of jesus, in which vampirism comes to marthas vineyard. Dec 03, 2014 spike lee s new stylized thriller da sweet blood of jesus is a new kind of love story.
Movie talk da sweet blood of jesus 2015, spike lee funded via kickstarter originally posted by drg not sure how i feel about this one. Spike lees stylized thriller da sweet blood of jesus is a new kind of love story. Jun 23, 2014 t he transformative nature of blood has inspired deep thinkers of theology as well as the crass schlockmeisters of cheapo horror. The teens give their dad full support as he brings a horror film like no other to the movie scene. Jun 23, 2014 new york a remake as peculiarly heartfelt as his cover version of park chanwooks oldboy was slickly professional, spike lees da sweet blood of jesus looks to bill gunns 1973 oddity ganja. An anthropologist stephen tyrone williams awakes with a thirst for blood after an assistant stabs him with a cursed dagger. Da sweet blood of jesus is bloody, weird, pure spike lee. Spike lees da sweet blood of jesus could use a transfusion of. It was the first of lees films to be funded through kickstarter. Da sweet blood of jesus is very much a spike lee vampire movie posted on february, 2015 by metro zaraah abrahams plays a vampire lover in spike lee s da sweet blood of jesus. Love him or loathe him, theres little denying that spike lee knows how to open a picture. Jan 15, 2015 director spike lee isnt necessarily known for following the status quo.
Hess green stephen tyrone williams becomes cursed by a mysterious ancient african artifact and is overwhelmed with a newfound thirst for blood. Lee s films are typically referred to as spike lee joints and the closing credits always end with the phrases by any means necessary, ya dig and sho nuff. Spike lee s new stylized thriller da sweet blood of jesus is a new kind of love story. Spike lee is raising funds for the newest hottest spike lee joint on kickstarter. Although spike lee has made it clear that his kickstarterfunded da sweet blood of jesus isnt a remake of blacula, it is in fact a remake of writerdirector bill gunns landmark. Watch da sweet blood of jesus online stream full movie. Spike lee turns an intriguing eye to the sweet blood of.
More of a science fiction movie, da sweet blood of jesus. The fact is irrelevant to his art, except in the case of his new film da sweet blood of jesus, which opens today and is also available via video on demand. Feb, 2015 da sweet blood of jesus, spike lees new film, is a grisly and ghoulish vampire story. T he transformative nature of blood has inspired deep thinkers of theology as well as the crass schlockmeisters of cheapo horror. A new kind of love story and not a remake of blacula. Few filmmakers are as idiosyncratic as spike lee and while this movie is unlikely to find mass acceptance, it is heartening to see him make. Spike lees da sweet blood of jesus could use a transfusion. The film is a remake of the 1973 film ganja and hess with original writer bill gunn receiving a credit as cowriter, along with lee. Spike lee s da sweet blood of jesus is the strangest movie hes ever made. Da sweet blood of jesus spike lees crowdfunded joint sinks its teeth into a seminal work of 1970s american independent cinema but comes up with an oddly bloodless result. A spike lee joint, da sweet blood of jesus is a new kind of love story, one that centers on. For a passion project, da sweet blood of jesus is sadly lacking in passion. The occasion was the closing night for the american black film festival, which recently.
Da sweet blood of jesus directed by spike lee movie. Hess green becomes cursed by a mysterious ancient african artifact and is overwhelmed with a newfound thirst for blood. A spike lee joint, da sweet blood of jesus is a new kind of love story, one that centers on an addiction to blood that once doomed a long forgotten ancient african tribe. The plot is about a wealthy anthropologist who is stabbed by an ancient african dagger and turned into a vampire.
Its impossible to conceive of this movie without its ancestors, and its authors questing, prickly relationship to them. The plot is about a wealthy anthropologist who is stabbed by an ancient african. Perhaps the most illadvised choice of da sweet blood of jesus considering some of its hairbrained ideas is that its pseudovampires are now connected to the spike lee movie. Da sweet blood of jesus 2014 directed by spike lee.
Mar 30, 2020 spike lees da sweet blood of jesus is a film in conversation with film. Now, lee has followed his first venture into crowdfunding by taking a new path for distribution. Spike lee has followed one remake oldboy with another, the decidedly more personal, kickstarterfunded da sweet blood of jesus, a close rendering of bill gunns 1973 hallmark of black. Spike lees da sweet blood of jesus is the strangest movie hes ever made. Spike lee branches into horror films with da sweet blood. Gravitas ventures acquires spike lees da sweet blood of. Just as sure as we see an ancient african dagger fawned over by a collector of antiquities, we know its going to be plunged into somebodys heart in spike lee s. Spike lee is releasing his new movie in this incredibly weird. Jun 24, 2014 thats what they got, but da sweet blood of jesus is also spike lee at his absolute weirdest, with a mix of apparently fictionalized ashanti mythology, an overbearing crowdsourced score. For spike lee, his newest picture da sweet blood of jesus is a. Da sweet blood of jesus 2014, directed by spike lee movie.
A spike lee joint, da sweet blood of jesus is a new kind of love story, one that centers on an addiction to blood that once doomed a long forgotten. Feb 12, 2015 perhaps the most illadvised choice of da sweet blood of jesus considering some of its hairbrained ideas is that its pseudovampires are now connected to the spike lee movie. Watch the first trailer for spike lees da sweet blood of jesus. Da sweet blood of jesus is a 2014 american horror film directed by spike lee. Shelton jackson spike lee is an american film director, producer, writer, and actor. Dec 02, 2014 after turning to kickstarter to raise enough money to get his next film off the ground, da sweet blood of jesus finally gives us our first taste of what spike lee has in store as the films. Watch da sweet blood of jesus starring stephen tyrone williams in this comedy on directv. Gravitas ventures has acquired the north american distribution rights to spike lee s horror film da sweet blood of jesus, which stars zaraah abrahams and stephen tyrone.
Spike lee s stylized thriller da sweet blood of jesus is a new kind of love story that questions the very nature of love, addiction, sex, and status in our. Spike lee s da sweet blood of jesus opens with a credit sequence in which a dancer gyrates over new york sites, many of them tagged with beautiful graffiti. Da sweet blood of jesus is spike lee s first crowdfunded feature and his second remake in a row, following oldboy a film i liked better than most critics, but as you might expect, given the defiantly idiosyncratic nature of this director, its not content to be a rehash the movie. New york a remake as peculiarly heartfelt as his cover version of park chanwooks oldboy was slickly professional, spike lee s da sweet blood of jesus. Spike lees blackkklansman is the movie we need time. I will personally tweet your home address to all my followers, claiming it is the address of one of. It may look on the surface like a nobudget doodle lee financed the film partly through kickstarter and shot it in. Jan 14, 2015 spike lee and kids, satchel and jackson, host the listening party for da sweet blood of jesus in new york. The latest edition of scout tafoyas the unloved video essay series celebrates spike lee s da sweet blood of jesus, lee s 2014 film that comes from an era of reinvention along with 2012s red hook summer. Contextualizing lee s radical erotic vampire tale within a polarizing filmography, tafoya defines da sweet blood of jesus as an intoxicating, percussive love poem shines a.
An interview with spike lee the filmmaker discusses ferguson, getting tenure at nyu, and the eclecticism of his new movie, da sweet blood of jesus sam fragoso. Spike lees kickstarter movie da sweet blood of jesus is a. Seven months after its festival premiere, spike lee s kickstarterfinanced vampire movie da sweet blood of jesus is now available on vimeo. Da sweet blood of jesus, spike lee s new film, is a grisly and ghoulish vampire story. The first trailer for spike lees kickstarterfunded quasi. Theres a mysterious quality to it all that keeps it locked in my brain. Spike lees da sweet blood of jesus the shadow league. The opening images a solitary dancer undulating on the red. Da sweet blood of jesus, spike lees new film, is a grisly and ghoulish vampire story. Spike lee new movie da sweet blood of jesus premieres on. Parents need to know that da sweet blood of jesus, directed by spike lee, is a stylized pseudovampire movie centering on a wealthy art collector who becomes addicted to drinking blood. The film is a remake of a classic, albeit an insufficiently familiar one. Spike lee s stylized thriller da sweet blood of jesus is a new kind of love story. Spike lee on his kickstarter financed movie, da sweet blood.
Spike lees kickstarterfinanced vampire movie da sweet. With stephen tyrone williams, zaraah abrahams, rami malek, elvis nolasco. Da sweet blood of jesus 2014, directed by spike lee. However, his distribution for his upcoming film, da sweet blood of jesus did strike us as a bit odd. Spike lee s latest film, da sweet blood of jesus, which had its world premiere at the 18th annual american black film festival, will release on february, 2015 through gravitas films. Jan, 2015 now, lee has followed his first venture into crowdfunding by taking a new path for distribution. Da sweet blood of jesus is now available to rent through vimeo. Da sweet blood of jesus isnt a spike lee vampire movie, but. Jul 24, 2017 da sweet blood of jesus was spike lees first film funded by kickstarter and solicited music from unknown artists on social media for the soundtrack.
There is no other spike film like it, its cold, distant, and quiet while still hitting all the usual stuff race, identity, and class. A spike lee joint, da sweet blood of jesus is a new kind of love story, one that centers on an addiction to blood that once doomed a. Spike lee is known for his good movies, so there was no surprise to hear that his newest film da sweet blood of jesus had people talking. Lee has said the film is about human beings who are addicted to blood and called it a new kind of love story. Da sweet blood of jesus is spike lee s first crowdfunded feature and his second remake in a row, following oldboy a film i liked better than most critics, but as you might expect, given the defiantly idiosyncratic nature of this director, its not content to be a rehash.
Illustration for article titled spike lees ida sweet blood of jesusi could use a. A spike lee joint, da sweet blood of jesus is a new kind of love story, one that centers on an addiction to blood that once doomed a longforgotten ancient african tribe. Da sweet blood of jesus 2015, spike lee funded via. Spike lees remake of the 1970s vampire romance ganja and hess is one of the directors strangest and most obsessive movies, but it casts a. Watch spike lees kickstarted da sweet blood of jesus. Da sweet blood of jesus isnt a spike lee vampire movie. Spike lee turns an intriguing eye to the sweet blood of vampires spike lee s new vampire film, da sweet blood of jesus, was funded through kickstarter and emerges as one of his most enigmatic works. Spike lee s da sweet blood of jesus is a film in conversation with film. His production company, 40 acres and a mule filmworks, has produced over 35 films since 1983. Jun 23, 2014 spike lee speaks during the world premiere of his new film da sweet blood of jesus at the 2014 american black film festival in new york city sunday. The newest hottest spike lee joint by spike lee kickstarter. Da sweet blood of jesus, which was made on a slender budget raised via kickstarter, is a remake of the late bill gunn. Soon after his transformation he enters into a dangerous romance with ganja hightower that questions the very nature of love, addiction, sex, and.
Spike lee is an american film director, producer, writer, and actor, noted for his films that deal with controversial social and political issues. Theres a theatricality to the performances that may seem offputting, but this is an artistic choice that has been evident in lees films since the. Spike lees da sweet blood of jesus drips into theaters. None of these tricks come close to reviving the sheer enthusiasm of that opening dance montage, a reminder of the high a spike lee film can induce. Theres a banal sense in which thats always true, but here, for lee, its constitutive of the project. When spike lee turned to kickstarter to fund his new movie, his pitch was simple, if short on detail. Soon after his transformation he enters into a dangerous romance with ganja hightower zaraah abrahams that questions the very. Spike lee and kids, satchel and jackson, host the listening party for da sweet blood of jesus in new york.
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