![]() It’s no wonder that writer-director Barry Jenkins takes his cues from the source, transforming Baldwin’s evocative vision of young lovers grappling with race and class into a masterful poetic romance as Baldwin envisioned it. James Baldwin’s 1974 novel “If Beale Street Could Talk” depicts the experiences of a pregnant black teen in Harlem with a cinematic quality that practically reads like a screenplay. Image Credit: Annapurna Pictures / Courtesy Everett Collection Also this month, Criterion Channel mounts a retrospective of New Queer Cinema pioneer Derek Jarman’s boundary-pushing stories of queer desire and rage. ![]() Jackson as voiceover, the movie inflects pressing, troubled times then and now through Baldwin’s shrewd analyses of society. ![]() ![]() Image Credit: ©Magnolia Pictures/Courtesy Everett CollectionĬriterion Channel has a huge array of movies celebrating Black History Month this February, and one you shouldn’t miss is Raoul Peck’s 2016 James Baldwin documentary “I Am Not Your Negro.” The film works from a 30-page manuscript the “Giovanni’s Room” author wrote in 1979 as part of a book project on Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Jr.
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