Toronto Outdoor Picture Show Season Opener
Cinematic Cities series
Spike Lee's Do THE RIGHT THING
SUnday, June 17, 2018
Fort York
Culture, politics, music, race, and gender collide in the late Reagan-era masterpiece Do the Right Thing, an essential film about urban summer life. Cinematic maverick Spike Lee adopts an enthralling, colour-saturated aesthetic to capture the complicated lives of a diverse, interconnected cast of Brooklynites over the course of one day, as the sweltering heat, anger, and bigotry intensify towards an inevitable breaking point.
A Tribe Called Red’s Indian City Ft. Black Bear music video also uses the colourful cityscape and music to tell a larger story about urban history. ATCR’s unmistakable sonic clash of traditional Indigenous chanting and drumming with contemporary beats is rendered cinematic by breakdancers performing in the loaded colonial space of Toronto’s Fort York in the shadow of the Gardiner Expressway. Together, these two films are the perfect kick-off screening for Toronto Outdoor Picture Show’s 2018 Cinematic Cities programme, featuring films about cities and their citizens, presented in parks across Toronto this summer.
ONE NIGHT ONLY
Fort York National Historic Site
June 17, 2018
do the right thing
Directed by Spike Lee, 1989
Screening with A Tribe Called Red - Indian City Ft. Black Bear directed by Jon Riera & Dan LeMoyne, 2016
"Walled Fort" of Fort York - enter at 250 Fort York Blvd
Food and alcoholic beverages for sale @ 7pm
Free, not a ticketed event
BYOBlanket & Chairs
Accessible venue
Films are screened with captioning for accessibility
This event is 19+
Scheduled rain date: June 28, 2018