“If Beale Street Could Talk”Annapurna/YouTube “In the end, if you go back and look at the movie, you’ll realize that’s the most colorful set,” said Friedberg. “That set is five ...

It’s clear that color was a critical factor, in designing looks for Beale Street. The way in which you applied yellow and blue hues to Tish and Fonny was particularly memorable, with each ...

Brian Tyree Henry talks If Beale Street Could Talk, Widows, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and representation and inclusion in Hollywood.

If Beale Street Could Talk opens with a quote from James Baldwin and a slow, sweeping violin score that will be heard many more times. Tish (KiKi Layne) and Fonny (Stephan James) walk along the ...

The first thing we see in “If Beale Street Could Talk” emerges as text on a black screen, a quotation from author James Baldwin. “Beale Street,” he wrote, “is a street… ...

Barry Jenkins' If Beale Street Could Talk is beaming with style and detail, but at its core, it’s a mindful meditation on human beings seeking the greatest gift we can give each other—love. In ...

The first frames of “If Beale Street Could Talk” are so breathtakingly beautiful because of their purity and rarity. Fonny (a charismatic Stephan James) is holding hands with Tish (a magnetic ...

Beale Street is the black Brooklyn, a heartfelt elegy to our most recent ancestors, a kind of collective home movie of black Americana. It’s a masterpiece.