The Lincoln Theatre is 100 years old this month! That's an entire century of showing movies for our Skagit community!
As part of our Centennial Celebration, we present four "watershed" films from the history of moving pictures -- films that had such tremendous impact that they changed cinema forever!
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April 28: Do the Right Thing
Spike Lee was catapulted into the mainstream with the release of Do the Right Thing, a masterpiece of both eye-popping visuals and social commentary. Without featuring technical innovations or groundbreaking subject matter, the film combines over-the-top style with on-the-ground realism in a way that audiences had never seen before.
Prior to this, "social issue" films tended to be "respectable," if not outright staid. Lee's depiction of an colorful, exciting, and complex Black community paved the way for expressive filmmaking that treated African-American life in ways other than as a background, a stereotype, or an "exotic other" world.
Salvatore "Sal" Fragione (Danny Aiello) is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. On the hottest day of the summer, a neighborhood local named Buggin' Out (Giancarlo Esposito), becomes upset when he sees that the pizzeria's Wall of Fame exhibits only Italian actors. Buggin' Out believes a pizzeria in a black neighborhood should showcase black actors, but Sal disagrees. The wall becomes a symbol of racism and hate to Buggin' Out and to other people in the neighborhood, and tensions rise.
"In Do the Right Thing Lee has progressed beyond tour de force and experiment; he’s succeeded in wedding subject and form in an aesthetic whole." —Peter Keough, Boston Phoenix, 1989
"An out-and-out masterpiece, Spike Lee's best movie also remains the most penetrating film ever made about race relations in these United States." —Matt Brunson, Film Frenzy
Directed by Spike Lee
Starring Spike Lee, Danny Aiello, Rosie Perez, Giancarlo Esposito, Bill Nunn, John Turturro, Samuel L. Jackson
United States | English | 1989 | Drama, Comedy | 120 minutes | R
Film Prices
Lincoln Theatre Members get $3.00 off on the following prices when buying tickets at-the-door:
General: $12.00
Seniors, Students, and Active Military: $11.00
Children 12 and under: $9.50
All prices include a $2.00 Preservation Fee that goes directly into our capital account for the preservation of the Lincoln Theatre and its programs