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Barry Jenkins to Direct Alvin Ailey Biopic | Variety

June 24, 2019June 24, 2019African American Cinema, African American Film ...

Stephanie Farr, Variety CREDIT: MAARTEN DE BOER. Featured Image [dropcap]Moonlight[/dropcap] writer-director Barry Jenkins will direct a biopic about iconic choreographer Alvin Ailey. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Fox Searchlight first announced the project in March 2018, saying it had the support of the Ailey Organization. Singer-songwriter Alicia Keys is producing with Susan Lewis through her AK Worldwide production […]

How Tarell Alvin McCraney Moved from ‘Moonlight’ to Broadway — and Beyond | The New York Times Magazine

January 16, 2019January 16, 2019KOLUMN Magazine

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.

Regina King and Colman Domingo Make Us Better With ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’ | Colorlines

January 7, 2019African American Cinema, African American Film ...

The veteran actors discuss their relationships to James Baldwin, what they brought to their portrayal of Sharon and Joe Rivers and the passion for rich Black characters.

If Beale Street Could Talk and the Urgency of Black Love | The Atlantic

January 2, 2019African American Cinema, African American Film ...

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.

Barry Jenkins and Kahlil Joseph Reimagine Roy DeCarava’s Admiring Vision of Harlem | Hyperallergic

January 1, 2019African American Art, African American Cinema ...

Director Barry Jenkins’ If Beale Street Could Talk and video artist Kahlil Joseph’s “Fly Paper” transmute the aesthetics and storytelling of photographer Roy DeCarava’s 1950s portraits of Harlem.

Barry Jenkins to Hollywood: Adapt More Black Literature | Colorlines

November 28, 2018African American Entertainment, African American Literature ...

The “If Beale Street Could Talk” director discusses the importance of the Black literary canon to the film industry.

Angela Flournoy on Barry Jenkins: 3 Must-Read Passages | Colorlines

October 11, 2018African American Cinema, African American Film ...

The celebrated novelist profiled the Oscar-winning filmmaker ahead of the November release of his upcoming film, “If Beale Street Could Talk.”

Watch the Emotional First Trailer for Barry Jenkins’s New Film ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’ | Vice

August 3, 2018African American Author, African American Literature ...

The ‘Moonlight’ director is making his return to the big screen with an adaptation of James Baldwin’s 1974 novel.

Moonlight Director Barry Jenkins on What Scared Him Most About Making Such a Personal Film – Slate

February 27, 2017African American Entertainment, African American Film ...

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.

‘Moonlight’: Is This the Year’s Best Movie?

October 31, 2016November 21, 2016African American Cinema, African American Lives ...

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 […]