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An article about new Director and President of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, Jacqueline Stewart, presenting game changing exhibit "Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898 -1971, running August 21st, 2022 through April 9th, 2023.
The writer/director/star of Chameleon Street talks about his groundbreaking, suppressed 1990 Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winning film, and its new 4K restoration.
This forgotten 1990 movie, now showing at Brooklyn Academy of Music, introduced a Black confidence man who played with the assumptions of a white world.
With every new story, director Barry Jenkins argues for hope
The director of Moonlight and The Underground Railroad keeps reaching for connection
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At first glance, the epic 10-hour series
The Underground Railroad seems to operate counter to filmmaker Barry Jenkins’ hope-inducing repertoire. Nobody puts Black love on the screen the way Jenkins does, and that’s because the Best Picture-winning filmmaker loves every facet of Blackness, from the luminescent beauty of Black skin to the therapeutic joys Black folks find in each other. But what beauty exists in a slave narrative? What joy?
The Underground Railroad appears antithetical to the hallmarks of Jenkins’ past works.