Joie Lee Movies

“Joie Lee describes this heartbreaker as ‘an epistolary exploration of my mother’s untimely passing’” (Amy Taubin) ...

“The image is constructed from a 1939 still photograph of the filmmaker’s mother. The multilayered soundtrack is styled as a radio...

Leonard Schiller once counted among New York's literary lions, but illness and ten years of writer's block have lowered his profile, almost to the...

A man stuck in the reveries of his youth tracks down the boyhood friend he once tormented, only to find that simpler times were more complicated than...

A Brooklyn teen learns she was born HIV-positive.

Window on Your Present is Cinqué Lee's first feature film, which he wrote and directed in the late 1980s. The film takes place in a world...

The lives of 19 rather disagreeable people momentarily converge in a Brooklyn heat wave one Friday afternoon in director Cinque Lee's (Spike Lee's...

Spike Lee and others reflect on this impactful film, more than two decades later.