Tuesday, June 02, 2009

SPIKE HONORED AT AFRO-PUNK FEST


The Brooklyn Academy of Music's fifth annual Afro-Punk Festival will feature an all-day Spike Lee program on July 5.

Screenings will include rarities like "Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads" -- the 1983 pic Lee filmed for his NYU thesis about a barber who becomes entangled with the mob.

Also at the fest: a 20th anniversary screening of Lee's "Do the Right Thing," David Leaf's 2008 docu "The Night James Brown Saved Boston" and Catherine Gund's "What's On Your Plate?," presented with the filmmaker in attendance.

The festival runs runs July 3-8.