Spike Lee: She's Gotta Have It (1986)

35mm print (black & white and color, sound) 88 min. USA

“A critical and commercial sensation, Lee's hilarious and trenchant feature debut follows the free-spirited, freethinking, and free-loving Nola Darling as she toys with three very different suitors. Lee, whose films have employed music from such diverse sources as Aaron Copland, John Coltrane, and Public Enemy, here uses dulcet melodies written by his father Bill, a noted jazz composer and bassist. The score is distinguished by a sensuous clarinet line that embodies the film's lingering eroticism.”(Jazz Score, Press Release)