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Spike Lee gets critical in Cannes


May 20, 2008 Spike Lee is in Cannes to promote his Italy-set war film "Miracle at St. Anna," but he couldn't resist taking a few swipes at some fellow directors, including Joel and Ethan Coen and Clint Eastwood. Speaking about death in his World War II period drama, Lee said that, unlike the Coens, he was respectful in the way he portrayed death. Speaking about the casting for his tale of four black American soldiers in Tuscany during World War II, Lee said that black actors appear in war films too infrequently.

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