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11 July 2008 12:53 AM, PDT | From GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news

Spike Lee has been in the spotlight a lot more since Inside Man was released in early 2007. It's a well-made thriller, and it confirmed what Lee is able to do when he's given resources, a good script, and studio support. But really, even when his profile wasn't as high, Lee had been putting out good for a number of years, in the form of documentaries.

Armed with perhaps more clout than he's had since Malcolm X, Lee is taking a big step forward in his commercial filmmaking with Miracle at St. Anna, his World War II movie about four African-American soldiers who get trapped in an Italian village. We've talked about the dust-up between Lee and Clint Eastwood stemming from Spike's critical assessment of the portrayal of blacks in Clint's Flags of Our Fathers. And now it's time to let the work speak for itself.

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Colin Boyd

6 June 2008 5:09 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Latest: Clint Eastwood has told Spike Lee to "shut his face" after the African-American filmmaker complained about the lack of black actors in Eastwood's films.

Eastwood has rejected the Malcolm X director's complaint that he had failed to include a single black soldier in his 2006 films Flags Of Our Fathers and Letters From Iwo Jima, about the 1945 battle for the Japanese island.

Rationalising his choice, the actor-turned-director explains the African-American troops who were at battle didn't take part in raising the flag.

He tells Britain's The Guardian newspaper, "The story is Flags of our Fathers, the famous flag-raising picture, and they didn't do that. If I go ahead and put an African-American actor in there, people go: 'This guy's lost his mind'. I mean, it's not accurate."

Referring to Lee, Eastwood adds: "A guy like him should shut his face."

Lee's comments came during a press conference at the Cannes International Film Festival last month, where he was promoting his own war film, Miracle at St Anna, a war drama about the all-black 92nd Buffalo Division, which fought against the Germans in World War II.

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