Spike Lee

Back in July, BAM announced Playback, a new (hopefully recurring) film festival, would be one of the headliners of its upcoming fall program. Out the gate, given its hosts and creators—New York Liberty Governor Clara Wu Tsai, and filmmakers Spike Lee and Nicholas Ma—hopes were high for the “Brooklyn Watch Party,” an ostensibly dressed-down alternative…

Spike Lee, Nicholas Ma, and New York Liberty Governor Clara Wu Tsai are bringing a new film festival to Brooklyn. Playback: The Brooklyn Watch Party will take place on November 6 and 7 at BAM. The event will include screenings of repertory films by Lee and others, conversations with some of the borough’s most influential…

Ashley Clark, the London-born, Jersey City-based critic, historian, film programmer, curatorial director of the Criterion Collection, and author, is bringing an 8-film series “back home” to the Brooklyn Academy of Music this weekend, with a project that reflects the work of his life and career. He has put together a representative sampling of the 100 movies…

From color to short cuts, braids and extensions, there is no hairstyle that LaWanda Pierre, up-and-coming hairstylist, cannot do. Originally born in Houston (with a stint in Atlanta in between), Pierre made Brooklyn her home at the age of nine and lived here ever since. Like most young black women in the 90s, she ran…