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Moonlight Director Barry Jenkins Pays Homage to Baldwin on His Birthday
Barry Jenkins, director of Moonlight, which snagged 2017’s Best Picture Oscar, is back with If Beale Street Could Talk, based on James Baldwin’s 1974 novel. On what would have been Jimmy’s 94th birthday, Jenkins paid tribute to the Harlem-bred novelist and social activist by releasing the film’s trailer on Thursday. “For me, August 2nd has…
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Barry Jenkins Visually Reimagines James Baldwin's If Beale Street Could Talk For a Full Display of Cinematic Blackness
Oscar-winning director Barry Jenkins (Moonlight) has tackled James Baldwin’s tragic, yet beautiful tale, If Beale Street Could Talk. This is the first time any of Baldwin’s work will be adapted into film in the English language. Jenkins’ goal was to keep the integrity of Baldwin’s genius but make sure the film didn’t feel like literature.…
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Moonlight Director on Why New James Baldwin Film Needs to Be in Harlem
After his history-making turn directing Moonlight, Barry Jenkins has chosen to tackle the work of one of America’s great literary icons: James Baldwin. Jenkins is adapting Baldwin’s novel If Beale Street Could Talk as his next feature film. As DNAinfo reports, Jenkins is choosing to stay true to the story by filming in Harlem, where…
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Moonlight Director Barry Jenkins to Write, Direct Film Version of James Baldwin Novel
Barry Jenkins, director of the Oscar-winning feature film Moonlight, has plans to bring more black excellence to the screen in the form of a screen adaptation of If Beale Street Could Talk, a novel by celebrated author James Baldwin. Deadline reports that the upcoming movie was already in development in May when Jenkins inked his…
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I'm Reading James Baldwin For The First Time And I'm Falling In Love With His Work
As a book-loving Black literary homothug who writes openly about life, sexuality, society, and the innumerable consequences and byproducts of White Terribleness and the absence of Teen Summit on post-Y2K childhood development (hint: they’re doomed), Sir James Baldwin has always occupied a peculiar space in my world. I’ve always known that his work was important…
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