Memory as Medicine Film: Mo’ Better Blues

Featuring the music of the Branford Marsalis quartet and Terence Blanchard, director Spike Lee uses flashbacks to tell the story of Bleek Gilliam. Stars include Wesley Snipes and Denzel Washington. U.S. 1990. English, 130 min., color. R. Forgotten, lost, exaggerated, and relived—memories have long been captured on film. In the spirit of Radcliffe Bailey’s investigation of the past, the Memory as Medicine Film Series knock on the door of days gone by. Sunday, August 5, 2:00 pm, Chiego Lecture Hall