Event Details
Four veterans return to the jungles of Vietnam in hopes of recovering a buried fortune in director/co-writer Spike Lee’s epic adventure drama, which pays homage to the classic The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (a favorite of the filmmaker’s) while exploring the rarely told experiences of Black soldiers in the Vietnam War. The top-notch cast includes Sinners supporting actor nominee Delroy Lindo as a proud Trump supporter; two stars of TV’s The Wire, Clarke Peters and Isiah Whitlock, Jr.; and Chadwick Boseman in one of his final performances. The film’s one Oscar nomination was earned by seven-time Grammy winner Terence Blanchard, a regular collaborator of Lee’s, whose bold orchestral score sits comfortably alongside the vintage Marvin Gaye songs that... fill the film’s soundtrack.
Academy Museum film programming generously funded by the Richard Roth Foundation.
2020 | 156 min. | USA | Color | Scope | English, Vietnamese | Rated R | DCP
DIRECTED BY: Spike Lee
WRITTEN BY: Danny Bilson, Paul Demeo, Kevin Wilmott, Spike Lee
WITH: Delroy Lindo, Jonathan Majors, Clarke Peters, Norm Lewis