BlacKkKlansman (2018 Spike Lee)

A timely viewing of a true story, brilliantly written by Lee & Kevin Willmott, and David Rabinowitz and Charlie Wachtel (who originally optioned and adapted Ron Stallworth's book). Whilst brilliantly managing to present / argue various sides, it remains very funny.

John David Washington is just right, and Adam Driver adds a certain something to every film he's in. Laura Harrier then turned up in Hollywood.

With its horrific Jesse Armstrong lynching story related by Harry Belafonte, The Birth of a Nation and its ending on the Virginia killing it couldn't be more timely, yet as the George Floyd news shows us, nothing seems to have changed.

I would have finished Black Film Day with Blazing Saddles, but it was getting on. As it happened, it was Oscar Day as well (and Clint Eastwood's 90th birthday).

Funny to get a Cybill / Last Picture Show reference so coincidentally.