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The director admits up front that it's been years since he's seen it and it's hard not to take his word for it by how excited he his, pointing out little nuggets of trivia about the making of the movie. Lee also says towards the end that he thinks the film holds up pretty well. He's right.

Set on a single block in the Bed-Stuy section of Brooklyn on the hottest day of the summer, Do The Right Thing is a tinderbox of race, politics, and pizza. It's also a tense time capsule of pre-gentrification, pre-Giuliani New York, with a never-better Danny Aiello as Sal, the proud owner of a pizzeria that's become a neighborhood institution as well as a lightning rod due to the exclusively white, Italian-American celebrities whose photos hang on the walls.

Aiello tosses pepperoni pies while bickering with his African-American customers and the motormouthed deliveryman, excellently played by Lee himself. Over the course of the sweltering afternoon and evening, the two sides dig in their heels and their tension escalates.

Revolutionary and incendiary at the time, "Do the Right Thing" begins with Rosie Perez's iconic dance to Public Enemy's "Fight the Power," a call-to-arms that will unfold over the next two hours.

The colors pop off the screen. Ernest Dickerson's color-saturated photography looks like each scene is lit by roman candles. And Lee's controversial ending, even 20 years later, remains as tragically inevitable as it ever was.

If you've never seen Lee's masterpiece, or even if it's just been 20 years since you have, do yourself a favor and do the right thing.

Now for a look at what else is new on DVD: in "Two Lovers," Joaquin Phoenix falls for Gwyneth Paltrow; in "Inkheart," Brendan Fraser and his daughter can bring books to life by reading them aloud; and in "Eastbound And Down," the first season of HBO's new comedy comes to disc.