The Melbourne Cinémathèque & ACMI present
School Daze
When
Wed 8 Jul 2026
The unexpected critical and commercial success of Lee’s low budget first feature, She’s Gotta Have It, persuaded Columbia Pictures to put up $6 million for his second. With an entirely Black cast, Lee’s rarely revived film examines heterogenous identities in a Southern all-Black college, styled as a 1940s Technicolor musical.
The conflicts, contradictions, politics and class divisions of 1980s Black America are dissected through sharp dialogue and lavish song and dance sequences. Starring Laurence Fishburne and a rich cast of Lee regulars including Giancarlo Esposito, Samuel L. Jackson, Ossie Davis, Bill Nunn and Lee himself.
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