Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads

MOVIE #1,638 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 05.15.24 a SPIKE LEE Director Focus Joint Lee submitted the film as his master's degree thesis and it’s definitely one of the better student-level productions you’ll come across (even if the fidelity of what’s accessible is pretty poor). In some ways, the best parts of these 70s and early 80s New York City flicks is the scenery, which feels like a different world. This is a story about Zack (Monty Ross), who has taken over full ownership of titular barbershop when Joe is offed for fucking with the local crime boss’s money (the shop is a front for a numbers racket, which is like an illegal lottery for those not in the know). The plot is more layered for a sub-60-minute first feature than you might accept, but — again — it’s not so much about ‘the plot’ rather the intricacies of this neighborhood and these relationships (and also those amazing Brooklyn locations).

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Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads is a 1983 student film by American filmmaker Spike Lee. Lee submitted the film as his master's degree thesis at the Tisch School of the Arts. It was released on March 27, 1983.