His play ‘Choir Boy’ just opened. His next film will air on Netflix. What ties his work together? Plumbing the depths of black beauty and grief.
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If Beale Street Could Talk and the Urgency of Black Love | The Atlantic
Barry Jenkins’s adaptation of the 1974 James Baldwin novel homes in on the familial tenderness that buoys the youthful protagonists amid devastatingly common injustices.
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Moonlight Director Barry Jenkins on What Scared Him Most About Making Such a Personal Film – Slate
In advance of the Oscars this Sunday, where Moonlight is up for eight awards including Best Picture, we’re reprinting this conversation from October 2016 between the film’s writer-director Barry Jenkins and Slate’s Aisha Harris.
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‘Moonlight’: Is This the Year’s Best Movie?
A.O. Scott | The New York Times>\ [perfectpullquote align=”full” cite=”” link=”” color=”” class=”” size=”16″]To describe “Moonlight,” Barry Jenkins’s second feature, as a movie about growing up poor, black and gay would be accurate enough.[/perfectpullquote]It would also not be wrong to call it a movie about drug abuse, mass incarceration and school violence. But those classifications […]
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Mahershala Ali? You’ve Surely Seen His Face
Over breakfast one Sunday this month, the actor Mahershala Ali ordered a healthy egg-white omelet, studiously avoiding a basket of complimentary, carb-loaded pastries.
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