Despite a muted reception back in May 1994 — certainly compared to Spike Lee’s previous film “Malcolm X” — “Crooklyn” has endured for three decades as one of the director’s most treasured films. At ...

The NYC residence served as the family home in Lee's 1994 semi-autobiographical film Alexis Jones is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022. Her work has previously ...

Oh, the perilous joys of nostalgia on film. Memory is inviting. You can write and rewrite the narrative until it achieves a sort of crystalline perfection. Your best day, that first love, the purity ...

A Spike Lee joint: The brownstone used in "Crooklyn" -- written by both the famed director and his sister, Joie Lee -- is relisting in Bed-Stuy. DDreps; Emily Gilbert; Getty Images A Brooklyn ...

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It starred as the family home in Spike Lee’s semi-autobiographical 1994 film ‘Crooklyn’ and now, less than a decade after an impressive restoration and stint as a bed and breakfast, the 1880s Bed Stuy ...

Relatively unknown at the time, Harlem’s own, Bokeem Woodbine got his start as an extra in Ernest Dickerson‘s classic film, Juice. After a starring role in HBO’s Strapped, Woodbine would go on to have ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X A still from Spike Lee’s Crooklyn. Hopscotch, stick ball, dominoes, and double-dutch: the 1994 ...

According to the Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment, their "One Film, One New York" contest "sparked a lively citywide discussion around water-coolers about great New York movies." ...

IndieWire speaks to stars Delroy Lindo and Zelda Harris, co-writers Joie and Cinque Lee, and more about Spike Lee's autobiographical drama, which was informed by his own childhood. At the time, Spike ...