The Keys to Spike Lee: Ashley Clark on Bamboozled

AFS screening and signing unpacks Spike Lee's ugliest and most misunderstood movie

"...box-office success and high esteem for their racial commentary. Bamboozled, however, was an exception: On its initial release in..."

Feb. 17, 2023 Screens Feature by Katie Karp

Bamboozled

"...from which this film's title derives, not to be bamboozled. Lee's specific target here is the state of race..."

Nov. 10, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Bamboozled

"...You guys and gals got PUNKED – PLAYED – BAMBOOZLED and SCREWED. $150K well spent. AGAIN. Come on 2020..."

Oct. 17, 2019 Postmarks

TV Eye

Spike Lee's Bamboozled, a satire about the return of the minstrel show on television, is a powerful indictment of the entertainment industry.

"...eye on the media has been released, Spike Lee's Bamboozled. There's certainly been no shortage of films on the..."

Nov. 24, 2000 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Gasoline Dreams

Rounding up 2000 LPs.

"...Almost Famous, and yet another well-smoking Spike Lee joint, Bamboozled...."

Jan. 5, 2001 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

State of the Union

A Fourth of July film roundup that goes beyond Independence Day

"...the film, "We're fracking finished." – Josh Kupecki Bamboozled (2000)..."

July 3, 2015 Screens Feature by Josh Kupecki

Max

"...many people upset over its very existence (Spike Lee’s Bamboozled raised some eyebrows with its Stepin Fetchit blackface shenanigans,..."

Feb. 28, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

25th Hour

"...(although each work since then, from Girl 6 to Bamboozled, stands, no matter how muddled, as a thought-provoking piece,..."

Jan. 3, 2003 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Domestic Disturbance

"...bad … because even though his new stepfather has bamboozled the whole town into believing he is handsome, rich,..."

Nov. 2, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

She's Gotta Have It, Pi

"...With his latest film Bamboozled opening this Friday in Austin, Spike Lee celebrates almost..."

Nov. 10, 2000 Screens Review by Sarah Hepola

Holy Smoke!

"...Australia, Ruth instead chooses to stay, though she's soon bamboozled back to the motherland by her Mum (Hamilton), who..."

Feb. 11, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Hightower Report

Why was the Brexit vote so shocking to global elites?

"...Yes, some voters are bigots, and some just got bamboozled, but Brexit was mostly a democratic rebellion against the..."

July 15, 2016 News Column by Jim Hightower

The Hightower Report

Corporate bamboozlers intend to widen inequality in America

"...Don't be bamboozled by glittery studies. TPP is a manure salad tossed..."

April 8, 2016 News Column by Jim Hightower

UT Basketball Scores New Leadership

Rick Barnes exits, Shaka Smart takes the helm

"...If UT's long-tenured men's basketball coach Rick Barnes felt bamboozled by his March 28 firing, after Athletic Director Steve..."

April 10, 2015 News Feature by Nina Hernandez

News Ticker: October 11

All the news that's fit to blog

"...Austinites take, there is still a chance of being bamboozled into a blind date with Alex Jones...."

Oct. 11, 2013 News Post by Brandon Watson

Letters at 3am: Zelda's Law and 9/11

9/11 conspiracy theories will outlive their perpetrators

"...an anxious America frightened of bin Laden might be bamboozled into gambling on grandiose and unrealistic Middle Eastern schemes...."

Sept. 23, 2011 Column by Michael Ventura

The Hightower Report

Onshoring Corporate Accounts; and From Regulating Comcast To Joining It

"...captives, as usual, are the consumers, who'll end up bamboozled by the deceit, as well as us taxpayers, who'll..."

June 10, 2011 News Column by Jim Hightower

The Imaginary Invalid

At St. Edward's, Molière's satire is a tight two hours of irreverent, blue humor

"...straight man, scornful of anyone challenging him and totally bamboozled by those deceiving him. Jill Blackwood is similarly delightful..."

Sept. 24, 2010 Arts Review by Avimaan Syam

Good Night Austin, Texas, Wherever You Are

Dweezil Zappa returns some ‘Bongo Fury’ to Austin, this time at Stubb's.

"...Apostrophe Broken Hearts are for Assholes Jones Crusher Bamboozled T'Mershi Duween Keep It Greasy You Didn't Try to..."

Nov. 20, 2009 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

Luv Doc Recommends: Music Man

Beverly S. Sheffield Zilker Hillside Theater, Thursday, July 16, 2009

"...by Southwest, you're probably feeling conned … hoodwinked … bamboozled – like someone slipped you a roofie four months..."

July 17, 2009 Column by The Luv Doc

Hollywood 1, OCEAN 0

Former Dallas Cowboy wins big one – with special teams assist from City Council

"...the ordinance. Another speaker, saying she wasn't "hoodwinked or bamboozled" into signing Henderson's letter, declared, "I'm not a slave...."

Jan. 25, 2008 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Animal Shelter Lawsuit

Citizen groups sue city, allege 'conspiratorial strategy' to keep animal shelter relocation decision away from public scrutiny

"...scheming to push their own agenda past an inattentive, bamboozled, or just plain limp mayor and council. Third option:..."

Oct. 5, 2007 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Animal Shelter Lawsuit: City Has Alpo on Its Face

On Monday, the fifth citizen-group lawsuit this year was filed against the City of Austin, this time alleging a “conspiratorial strategy” to keep the controversial animal shelter relocation decision away from the public scrutiny of an open council vote.

"...scheming to push their own agenda past an inattentive, bamboozled, or just plain limp mayor and council. Third option:..."

Oct. 2, 2007 News Post by Katherine Gregor

Rove Copied 'Mein Kampf'

"...madness and hold accountable our corrupt leaders that have bamboozled good Americans into believing in their Machiavellian way of..."

Aug. 19, 2007 Postmarks

Omar & the Howlers

Texas platters

"..."All the Love We Can Stand" and the tongue-in-cheek "Bamboozled." Darden Smith is drafted for the excellent dusk-till-dawn atmospherics..."

June 11, 2004 Music Review by Margaret Moser

Doubt and Caution at All Times

An interview DBC Pierre and Dan Rhodes on tour, together

"...his second novel nearly completed, this one surrounding two "bamboozled" Westerners in a globalized and diverse Europe, Pierre's backstory..."

Oct. 31, 2003 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

Post-Minstrel Syndrome

Blackface Is a white fantasy about the way things used to be

"...art director's slot on the set of Spike Lee's Bamboozled. Charles also happens to be an associate professor of..."

June 20, 2003 Arts Feature by Verushka Gray

After a Fashion

Thanksgiving? What with the day-after mall mania and less-than-stellar eating experience we had on Turkey Day proper, at least we can be thankful for Austin's cool fashion shows and celebrity sightings.

"...THE CONSPIRACY Exactly how did the American public get bamboozled into believing that they had to get up at..."

Nov. 30, 2001 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Screens Feature

"...October 6: Bamboozled (limited), Dancer in the Dark (limited), Digimon, Get Carter,..."

Sept. 1, 2000 Screens Feature

ALSO PLAYING

"...Jerry Bruckheimer's "kindler, gentler" Technical Black division... Spike Lee's Bamboozled posits a black television writer (Damon Wayans) so desperate..."

Sept. 1, 2000 Screens Feature

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