Bamboozled / a Spike Lee joint ; New Line Cinema presents ; a 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks production ; produced by Jon Kilik and Spike Lee ; written and directed by Spike Lee.
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: CC3122D | The Criterion CollectionLanguage: English Original language: English Series: Criterion collection ; 1019.Publisher: [New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, 2020Edition: Director-approved two-DVD special editionDescription: 2 videodiscs (136 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type: - two-dimensional moving image
- video
- videodisc
- 9781681437019
- 1681437015
- Bamboozled (Motion picture)
- Director of photography, Ellen Kuras ; editor, Sam Pollard ; original score, Terence Blanchard ; choreography, Savion Glover ; costume design, Ruth Carter ; production design, Victor Kempster.
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Dr. James Carlson Library | DVD | COMEDY BAMBOOZL | Available | 33111009901097 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Dark, biting satire of the television industry. A frustrated writer devises a plan to revive the minstrel show; but instead of white actors in black face, the show stars black actors in even blacker face. Directed by Spike Lee.
DVD; NTSC; region 1; Dolby Digital 5.1
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).
Title from credits.
Damon Wayans, Savion Glover, Jada Pinkett-Smith, Tommy Davidson, Michael Rapaport.
Director of photography, Ellen Kuras ; editor, Sam Pollard ; original score, Terence Blanchard ; choreography, Savion Glover ; costume design, Ruth Carter ; production design, Victor Kempster.
Originally released as a motion picture in 2000.
Wide screen (1.77:1).
MPAA rating: R; for some violence and strong language.
Under pressure to help revive his network's low ratings, television writer Pierre Delacroix hits on an explosively offensive idea: bringing back blackface with "The New Millennium Minstrel Show." The white network executives love it, and so do audiences, forcing Pierre and his collaborators to confront their public's insatiable appetite for dehumanizing stereotypes.
Special features: audio commentary from 2001 featuring Lee; In conversation: Spike Lee with film programmer and critic Ashley Clark; Manray & Womack (new interviews with choreographer and actor Savion Glover, actor Tommy Davidson); Ruth E. Carter (interview with costume designer Ruth E. Carter); On Blackface and minstrel show (a new interview program featuring film and media scholar Racquel Gates); The making of "Bamboozled" (2001), a documentary featuring Lee, Glover, Davidson, actors Jada Pinkett Smith, Michael Rapaport, and Daman Wayans, and other members of the cast and crew; deleted scenes; music videos for the Mau Maus' "Blak iz blak" and Gerald Levert's "Dream with no love" and alternate parody commercials created for the film; post gallery and trailers.