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Youre a part of history, Spike Lee told a sold-out screening at the Venice Film Festival on Sunday.
40 years from now you’ve got the option to say you were here.
The filmmakers hyperbole want surprising, but the fact that he was talking about Nate ParkersAmerican Skinwas.
In 2016, ParkersBirth of a Nationpremiered at another film festival, Sundance, as an early awards contender.
Then details of rape allegations from his college years resurfaced.
That changed withAmerican Skin, which was added to the Venice lineup as a Special Screening.
We shot this movie in April, with some sense of urgency, Parker told the crowd.
We needed to get this thing out there and maybe save lives.
The result is a half-hearted retread of12 Angry Men.
And Ive had a lot of time to think about that, and Ive learned a lot from it.
I apologize to those people.
