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For his all-black comedy of sexual manners, rookie director Spike Lee gathers the very biased and often hilarious testimony of all those involved with this charming creature. Bolstered by lovely photography, a luscious jazz score, and these sinfully rare perspectives (of blacks, a female rogue, and a lesbian), She...

Author: By Abigail M. Mcganney, | Title: You've Gotta See It | 9/26/1986 | See Source »

Lee also is fortunate in having cinematographer Ernest Dickerson as his old film school buddy. Dickerson, who also filmed John Sayles' Brother From Another Planet, created She's Gotta Have It in elegant, tastefully washed-out black and white. His stills of modern-day Brooklyn people and places are a...

Author: By Abigail M. Mcganney, | Title: You've Gotta See It | 9/26/1986 | See Source »

I HAVE A DATE, a dress, reservations at a romantic restaurant, and an invitation to an elegant ball to be held in the Yard. There's only one thing missing.

Author: By Amy N. Ripich, | Title: Blackballed | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

There is a dogged quality to this gentle description, an absolute determination not to let go of the reader before he is made to understand what these infantrymen are enduring. Pyle himself, like the soldiers he covered, was new to war, and only recently rid of the romantic, patriotic belligerence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Worm's Eye Ernie's War | 9/15/1986 | See Source »

Working in a profession that puts a premium on action shots, photojournalists have long turned out scenes with the same laissez-faire approach to composition. But in general, the exemplary pictures of the . camera-reporting tradition have bowed to pictorial convention, treating the edges of the frame like a proscenium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Going Beyond Illustration | 9/8/1986 | See Source »

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