San Francisco Weekly May 16, 2012 : Page 10sfweekly.com Brooklyn Summer School from p8 students. They’ve never been on a feature film set before, and a lot of them make mistakes which cost me money, but they gotta learn. I know that this experience is going to be invaluable for them in their future as filmmakers. It’s really about edu-cation. That’s why I’m here as their teacher. The generational disconnect in this film is largely centered around old-time religion, which seems like a new theme for you. James and I went to classic struggles. Full disclosure, I was not brought up in a black church. I was third generation. If you lived in the north, your parents shipped your ass down south to get rid of you for the summer. [laughs] For many years of my youth, not just me but my siblings also, we’d spend half of the summer in Atlanta with my mother’s parents, and the other half with my father’s mother in Snow Hill, Ala. Every Sunday down south, we had to go to church. Conversely, James’ father was a preacher and, in fact, his parents founded the church we shot at. Since you’re neither age, do you identify more with the tech-savvy youth or the devout elder? I better not be a grandfather! My daughter’s 17, and I got a gun. Just joking ... I got a baseball bat. [laughs] I’m born in ’57, so it’s amazing to me how this generation can be doing their homework, headphones on, TV on, computer on. I’m just a dinosaur. I gotta ask my children for anything technical. They say, “You don’t know how to do that? It’s easy.” It’s second nature, but they’ve never held a vinyl record. That’s technology — you gain some things and you lose. I have film students here who’ve never touched film. Some incorrectly believe that Red Hook Summer is a continuation of Do the Right Thing , but could you discuss the kinship between the films? Here’s the problem: It got leaked out that Mookie was in it, so people automatically thought that this was the sequel. Red Hook Summer is another chapter in my ongoing chronicles of the re-public of Brooklyn: She’s Gotta Have It , Do the Right Thing , Mo’ Better Blues , He Got Game , half of Jungle Fever in Bensonhurst. The two cops who put Radio Raheem in the Michael Stewart choke hold appear in Jungle Fever , and nearly arrest Wesley [Snipes] and Annabella [Sciorra]. They also reappear in Clockers ! In Inside Man , when the pizza’s delivered to the hostages, the box clearly says, “Sal’s Famous Pizzeria.” I caught that one. But you know what peo-ple missed? The same guy that delivered the pizza to the hostages in Dog Day After-noon delivered the pizza in Inside Man . Speaking of other people’s movies, what are you going to watch this summer? I like Christopher Nolan. He’s a very inter-esting filmmaker. So I’ll pay my money to see Batman with the rest of humanity. | CONTENTS FREE CITY | LETTERS | EXTENDED HOURS & 10% OFF PARTICIPATING MERCHANTS! MAY 17TH, LATE IN THE LOWER HAIGHT! SUCKA 2012 Summer Movie Preview from p8 Ted (July 13) Dir. Seth McFarlane Boston slacker Mark Wahlberg might be able to salvage his relationship with long-suffering girlfriend Mila Kunis, if he can get his best friend since childhood to move out. Oh, and his friend happens to be a CG-animated, foul-mouthed, bong-smoking, sexually harassing teddy bear (voiced by first-time director McFarlane himself, creator of Family Guy ). Patrick Warburton, Giovanni Ribisi, and Joel McHale co-star in this high-concept comedy of arrested development. (Universal Pictures) The Dark Knight Rises (July 20) Dir. Christopher Nolan Really, who won’t be watching the final act of Nolan’s Caped Crusader trilogy, arguably the high-water mark of super-hero cinema? Christian Bale’s gravelly voice returns as haunted billionaire Bruce Wayne and his winged alter-ego, now facing two foes of fanboy legend: Anne Hathaway’s slinky Catwoman and Tom Hardy’s gas-masked juggernaut Bane, who infamously broke Batman’s back in the comics. Get off the Internet to avoid further spoilers. (Warner Bros.) Killer Joe (July 27) Dir. William Friedkin In debt to a drug kingpin, Emile Hirsch hires a sociopathic Dallas cop (Matthew McConaughey, already earning career-high praise) to take out his mother for the life insurance policy. The Exorcist director reteams with Pulitzer-and Tony-winning writer Tracy Letts ( Bug ) for what’s been labeled both a sleazy noir-thriller and an eccentric, pitch-black comedy. Either way, you know by its NC-17 rating that this bloody hick-sploitation freak-out ain’t going take it easy on its players. (LD Entertainment) The Queen of Versailles (July 27) Dir. 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