One of cinema’s all-time actor-director collaborations, Denzel Washington and Spike Lee, reunite for the first time in nearly 20 years—and their fifth movie together overall—for an interpolation of the legendary Akira Kurosawa’s stone-cold classic noir kidnapping thriller High and Low (playing in The Screening Room on September 5), now transported to the mean streets of modern day New York City. When a titan music mogul (Denzel Washington), widely known as having the “best ears in the business,” is targeted with a ransom plot, he is jammed up in a life-or-death moral dilemma.

As always, Spike has his finger on the pulse, setting this crime story in the kinetic world of music industry movers and shakers and prominently featuring a number of high-profile pop-rap stars, including ASAP Rocky, Ice Spice, and Princess Nokia, alongside seasoned thespians like Jeffrey Wright and Wendell Pierce.

Join us for this special screening of Highest 2 Lowest in the Film House, the only place playing Spike’s latest joint in our area.