Director Spike Lee will be the Jury President at this upcoming 74th edition of the Cannes Film Festival. Today it was revealed he will also be on the official poster of the festival, which is set to launch of July 5th. It’s a beautifully realized placard, done by Bob Peterson and Nike.
Lee is the maverick director behind such landmarks as “Do the Right Thing,” “Malcolm X,” and “The 25th Hour.” He’s been going at it now as a director for more than 30 years. Anything he does should be paid attention to.
The “BlacKkKlansman” director had a solid outing with the aforementioned movie in 2018, which was deemed a comeback of sorts after a rough 10-year stretch of films which included “Miracle at St. Anna,” “Red Hook Summer,” “Oldboy,” “Da Sweet Blood of Jesus” and, to a lesser extent, “Chiraq.” Those were, maybe, the five worst movies of Lee’s career.
Last year he directed two critically-accaimed movies; “Da 5 Bloods,” which was supposed to world premiere at the COVID-canceled 2020 Cannes and the David Byrne concert documentary “American Utopia.”
The original plan was to release the Halloween-set film in October (its original title was "October"), but Saulnier is still editing it. The last test screening featured a 2½-hour cut and drew very positive reactions.