It's Showtime (2000)
Movie | |
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German title | It's showtime |
Original title | Bamboozled |
Country of production | United States |
original language | English |
Publishing year | 2000 |
length | 135 minutes |
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Director | Spike Lee |
script | Spike Lee |
production | Jon Kilik Spike Lee |
music | Terence Blanchard |
camera | Ellen Kuras |
cut | Sam Pollard |
occupation | |
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It's Showtime is a 2000 film satire that was scripted and directed by Spike Lee . The film is about a minstrel show broadcast on modern television in which black actors blackface each other , and the violent effects of the show's success.
production
The film was shot on digital video ( mini DV ) with a Sony VX-1000 camera and later converted to film. This kept the budget of US $ 10 million. It was filmed with multiple cameras at the same time, which saves time. The minstrel show sequences were shot on 16mm film .
reception
The film received moderate reviews. Of 97 evaluated reviews on the Rotten Tomatoes meta site , the film received only 47% positive ratings, with an average point rating of 5.4 / 10.
At the box office, the film flopped and at US $ 2.46 million, only about a quarter of the investment cost.
Web links
- It's Showtime at the Internet Movie Database (English)
- It's Showtime at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bamboozled , rottentomatoes.com (English), accessed on February 3, 2016.
- ^ Robert F. Moss: Was Al Jolson 'Bamboozled'? - Los Angeles Times , Articles.latimes.com. October 20, 2000. Retrieved February 3, 2016.