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Spike Lee's remarkable performance film A Huey P. Newton Story reveals exciting possibilities for digital creativity. Lee does not so much 'open up' Roger Guenveur Smith's astonishing monologue – a portrait of the Black Panther theorist suspended and raving in some indeterminate moment of his existence – as burrow into it, matching the micro-rhythms of the actor's speech with inserts and 'windows' of deftly edited archival imagery. This is a theatre-cinema hybrid at its impurest – and finest. MORE Lee: Jungle Fever, Malcolm X, The Original Kings of Comedy, Summer of Sam, 25th Hour, Lumière and Company, Girl 6 © Adrian Martin October 2001 |
