Do The Right Thing: Film Screening and Panel Discussion
2 p.m., Sat., Sept. 26, The Strand Theatre, 921 Main St.
The Cultural Films Committee is sponsoring a free, public screening of Spike Lee's "Do the Right Thing" at 2 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 26, at The Strand Theatre, 921 Main St. Grinnell, Iowa.
The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with:
- Ian Byrd ’16
- Prof. Jeremy Chen, art and art history
- Paula-Kay Cousins ’17
- Prof. Raquel Greene, Russian
- Prof. Claire Moisan, French, and director of Alternate Language Study Option (ALSO)
- Hankyeol Song ’17
- Jesus O. Villalobus ’17
In a 1989 New York Times movie review, critic Roger Ebert said, ”Anyone who walks into this film expecting answers is a dreamer or a fool. But anyone who leaves the movie with more intolerance than they walked in with wasn't paying attention.”
“Do the Right Thing doesn't ask its audiences to choose sides;" he added, “it is scrupulously fair to both sides, in a story where it is our society itself that is not fair.”
Read more of Ebert's review and join us for the screening.