Do The Right Thing VHS (1989)

Spike Lee’s Do The Right Thing (1989) sparked the hearts & minds of the world – sending a cinematic shockwave to society’s collective consciousness at a time where a conditioned American audience had become complacent & asleep at the switch in the late 80’s, with racial tensions & black oppression reaching an apex everywhere except on the movie screen. The film literally awakened a generation. The 3rd film helmed by Spike Lee following two sleeper moderately successful arthouse films transformed little-known a 32-yr old Brooklyn-bred local filmmaker into a cinema icon, permanently etching his name into the annals of America’s film canon. Coming at the end of a decade of tasteless teen slasher films & cold-war era action slop – Lee’s refreshing masterpiece delivered with a unique energy that was equal parts the radical cinema language focused on liberation by black legends like Melvin Van Peebles, as well the the prestigious potent blend of moving poetry one would expect to see from European auteurs like the late Pasolini, but injected with unique visual style from Lee that was his 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.