Opens Friday, January 4 Cineplex at Park Lane Barry Jenkins follows up his Best Picture winner Moonlight with a similarly lyrical, heartfelt, lusciously filmed drama. In his adaptation of James Baldwin’s 1974 novel If Beale Street Could Talk, Jenkins’ narrative approach is less linear than the three periods of Chiron in Moonlight: We are with […]
Barry Jenkins
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Moonlight‘s powerful glow
In 2008, Barry Jenkins wrote and directed the best independent drama of that year, Medicine for Melancholy. A quiet two-hander about a one night stand that turned into something more, essentially in real time—with some class and gentrification issues deftly weaved in—it was assured and gentle, poignant and disarming. He brings that same care and […]